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Stephanie Spadaccini
Stephanie Spadaccini

New York Times, Thursday, January 27, 1977

24-Down : "Lizzie Borden took ___"

Author:
Stephanie Spadaccini
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.70, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 22.4
Stephanie Spadaccini has 8 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 36 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,029
Across
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Warhol, for one : ARTIST
7
Distant : AFAR
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Native: Suffix : OTE
14
Lethargy : STUPOR
15
Dutch painter : LELY
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Kind of shot : POT
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Misbelief : HERESY
18
Excited : FEVERISH
20
Blackjack, in England : COSH
22
Tightrope-walker's asset : BALANCE
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Evil spirit, in Haiti : BAKA
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Drudge : TOIL
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Close by : NEAR
29
Keep ___ (save) : ONICE
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Weak : ANEMIC
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Crude : RAW
35
Indian vetch : AKRA
37
Orwell's farm : ANIMAL
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Lived : EXISTED
43
Scholarly : ERUDITE
44
Job history : RESUME
45
Teen or golden : AGER
46
Valley or lamp : SUN
47
Impressionist of France : RENOIR
49
Kind of board : EMERY
51
Plumlike fruit : SLOE
54
Thérèse and Jeanne: Abbr. : STES
56
Wild buffalo : ARNA
57
Interruption at Le Mans : PITSTOP
60
Minnesota player : TWIN
62
Olympic athletes, e.g. : AMATEURS
64
Shun : ESCHEW
68
Soak : RET
69
Confused : ASEA
70
Daughter of Zeus : ATHENA
71
Kind of ball : EYE
72
Mythical river : STYX
73
Praised : TOUTED
Down
1
Wednesday or can : ASH
2
66, e.g. : RTE
3
Caucasian goat : TUR
4
Emetic drug : IPECAC
5
Mediocre : SOSO
6
Appointment : TRYST
7
Landon : ALF
8
Kind of minded : FEEBLE
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Inventor's middle name : ALVA
10
Old British coin : RYEL
11
Think : OPINE
12
Opera heroine : TOSCA
13
Anesthetic : ETHER
19
Rotten : RANCID
21
Squirrel away : HOARD
23
Destructive beetle : BORER
24
"Lizzie Borden took ___" : ANAXE
25
Flightless birds : KIWIS
27
___ jiffy : INA
30
Words on Alice's cake : EATME
32
Walter de la ___ : MARE
33
Toughen : INURE
36
Sharp : KEEN
38
Silas Marner, for one : MISER
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Take ___ for the worse : ATURN
40
Lotte of films : LENYA
42
Most certain : SUREST
43
Heron : EGRET
45
Island : AIT
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Hawk : OSPREY
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Fu ___ : MANCHU
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Bowling score : SPARE
52
English sailor : LIMEY
53
Mexican grass : OTATE
55
Perspiration : SWEAT
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Pekoe and oolong : TEAS
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Eject : OUST
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Ratio words : ISTO
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Wind instrument : SAX
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All ___ up : HET
66
Compass point : ENE
67
Tobacco chew : WAD

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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