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Jeanne Wilson
Jeanne Wilson

New York Times, Monday, January 9, 1984

6-Down : "___ of dreadful note": Macbeth

Author:
Jeanne Wilson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { K Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 27.9
Jeanne Wilson has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,480
Across
1
Rochester's love : JANE
5
Lions' abodes : LAIRS
10
Minor prophet : AMOS
14
Peak : APEX
15
Confess : ADMIT
16
Copperfield's love : DORA
17
Plague : PEST
18
Return gunfire : REPLY
19
Host : ARMY
20
Core; pith : ESSENCE
22
Goes by, as time : ELAPSES
24
Poor : NEEDY
26
Bury : INTER
27
Exercise for a pupil : LESSON
30
Group of kilns : OAST
32
Cleopatra's love : ANTONY
33
Ignored, as advice : UNHEEDED
38
Desdemona loved one : MOOR
39
Galsworthy's "The ___ of Tranquillity" : INN
40
Lay concrete : PAVE
41
Dynamiter's activity : BLASTING
44
Scarlett's love : ASHLEY
46
Suffix with resist : ANCE
47
British toast : CHEERS
48
Runner for a dresser : SCARF
51
A cold : RHEUM
53
Salt lake (Lacus Asphaltites) : DEADSEA
55
Articulated : UTTERED
59
Business-letter term : INRE
60
Robert Schumann's love : CLARA
62
Italia's capital : ROMA
63
Nick Charles's love : NORA
64
Predictor's pasteboard : TAROT
65
Kind of rain : ACID
66
City south of Moscow : OREL
67
Trap having sinkers and floats : SEINE
68
Zhivago's love : LARA
Down
1
Mock : JAPE
2
Simians : APES
3
Robert Stack role : NESS
4
Straightening muscles on limbs : EXTENSORS
5
Grand or petty follower : LARCENY
6
"___ of dreadful note": Macbeth : ADEED
7
Little hellion : IMP
8
Cause heat under the collar : RILE
9
À la mode : STYLISH
10
Emulate a chameleon : ADAPT
11
Code inventor : MORSE
12
Abalone : ORMER
13
"Simon ___" : SAYS
21
Gaudy sign : NEON
23
Prefix with chamber or room : ANTE
25
Confederate of Jesse James : YOUNGER
27
Elia : LAMB
28
Organic compound : ENOL
29
Greek portico : STOA
31
Lincoln's first love : ANN
34
Transitory : EPHEMERAL
35
Valley of a sort : DALE
36
Always : EVER
37
Former N African rulers : DEYS
39
"Airways, ___," Dos Passos play : INC
42
Drake's men : TARS
43
Taints : INFECTS
44
Quick-drying textile fiber : ACETATE
45
Close : SHUT
48
Mister, in Madrid : SENOR
49
Author John le ___ : CARRE
50
TV's "Let's Make ___" : ADEAL
52
Cheboygan's lake : HURON
53
The Flintstones' pet : DINO
54
Amor's flappers : ALAE
56
Cape near Lisbon : ROCA
57
Arab prince : EMIR
58
Early 20th-century art : DADA
61
Greek nickname : ARI

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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