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Joan DeRosso
Joan DeRosso

New York Times, Thursday, January 31, 1974

Author:
Joan DeRosso
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 320 (avg 1.69)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 26.7
Joan DeRosso has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 8,937
Across
1
"Twelfth Night" heroine : VIOLA
6
Entreat : PLEAD
11
Davis or Ryder : CUP
14
Composers' org. : ASCAP
15
Metric measure : LITRE
16
Number : ONE
17
Site of the Eiffel Tower : CHAMPDEMARS
19
Short snort : NIP
20
Malleable : PLIANT
21
Malicious : CATTY
23
Unusual : OFFBEAT
26
French novelist : BARRES
27
Name of a sort : ALIAS
28
Author Anatole : FRANCE
30
Light colors : TANS
31
Memento of a ski spill : SPLINT
33
Child's game : TAG
36
Orators' park : HYDE
37
"___ you believe it?" : WOULD
38
Whale: Prefix : CETO
39
Direction: Abbr. : SSE
40
Ailing : SICKLY
41
Surrounded by : AMID
42
McFarland of "Our Gang" : SPANKY
44
Sufficient : AMPLE
45
Winter sport : SKIING
47
Humility : MODESTY
49
Course : TREND
50
Miss Muffet's companion : SPIDER
52
___ room : REC
53
Glamorous era, in France : BELLEEPOQUE
58
Ocean: Abbr. : ATL
59
Actor Delon : ALAIN
60
All, in Paris : TOUTE
61
___ Willie Winkie : WEE
62
Taunts : GIBES
63
Kind of thief : SNEAK
Down
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Holiday: Abbr. : VAC
2
Sort of: Suffix : ISH
3
Wood sorrel : OCA
4
One use for a candlestick or wine bottle : LAMPBASE
5
Crab and love : APPLES
6
Fold : PLEAT
7
Delineate : LIMN
8
Coup d'___ : ETAT
9
Timetable abbr. : ARR
10
Warble : DESCANT
11
Embarrassing moment : CONTRETEMPS
12
Combine : UNITE
13
Diarist : PEPYS
18
Day, in Lima : DIA
22
Place d'Etoile sight : ARC
23
Curses : OATHS
24
Rebukes strongly : FLAYS
25
Decadent : FINDESIECLE
26
Toss around : BANDY
28
Depending on chance : FLUKY
29
Small stream : RILL
31
Playground equipment : SWING
32
Kind of mark : POCK
34
Inclined : ATILT
35
"Lady's Book" publisher : GODEY
38
African republic : CAMEROON
40
Coerce crudely : SANDBAG
43
Rolling or clothes : PIN
44
Experts : ADEPTS
45
Last thing : STRAW
46
Greek island, to Greeks : KRETE
47
Bearings : MIENS
48
Poem : ODE
50
Pitcher's plate : SLAB
51
Ballet step : PLIE
54
Wallach : ELI
55
Canadian province: Abbr. : QUE
56
Actress Hagen : UTA
57
Comic-strip sound : EEK

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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