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Jeanette K. Brill
Jeanette K. Brill

New York Times, Tuesday, October 18, 1977

Author:
Jeanette K. Brill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { C J K Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 34.0
Jeanette K. Brill has 78 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,293
Across
1
Cool one's heels : WAIT
5
Item in a trunk : SPARE
10
Kettle handle : BAIL
14
Jersey or Guernsey : ISLE
15
Cards left over after a deal : TALON
16
King of the Huns : ATLI
17
Time for contrition re imbibition : THEMORNINGAFTER
20
Make propitiation for : EXPIATE
21
Soak, as tea leaves : INFUSE
22
Yalies : ELIS
23
Plant of the bean family : ANIL
24
Scene 1 setting in "La Bohème" : GARRET
27
Kringle's largesse : PRESENTS
31
Moslem prince : AMEER
32
Indian garment: Var. : SAREE
33
Mouths : ORA
34
Plaid fabric : MAUD
35
Asseverate : SWEAR
36
Type of type: Abbr. : ITAL
37
Con Ed et al. : UTS
38
Meeting places in Pericles' day : STOAS
39
Escargot : SNAIL
40
Get spiffed : TIEONEON
42
Like Horner or Muffet : LITTLE
43
Easy win : ROMP
44
Safe's partner : SANE
45
Hindu musical instruments : SITARS
48
Henry's goal: 1775 : LIBERTY
51
Go on a tear : PAINTTHETOWNRED
54
Eager : AGOG
55
"___ but an empty bubble": Dryden : HONOR
56
Elusive : EELY
57
What Mother Hubbard's dog had : NONE
58
An Alaskan first family : EGANS
59
Remove : DELE
Down
1
To ___ (for example) : WIT
2
Tennis name : ASHE
3
Holly : ILEX
4
Even or hot follower : TEMPERED
5
Passage off Gibraltar : STRAIT
6
Sam's lengthy error : PANTS
7
"A mixture of ___ doth ever add pleasure": Bacon : ALIE
8
Jockey Turcotte : RON
9
Iron-horse driver : ENGINEER
10
Confound : BAFFLE
11
Alaskan island : ATTU
12
___ du Vent (the Windwards) : ILES
13
Milanese money : LIRE
18
Raincoat : OILER
19
Aromatic herb : ANISE
23
Tapestry : ARRAS
24
From A to Z : GAMUT
25
Violin par excellence : AMATI
26
Employ again : REUSE
27
Song of praise : PAEAN
28
___ home (out) : NOTAT
29
The Cherokee, e.g. : TRAIL
30
Room in a maison : SALLE
32
Sudden descent : SWOOP
35
___ tide (stops) : STEMSTHE
36
Confined during a war : INTERNED
38
Stable sound : SNORT
39
Tendon : SINEW
41
___ blossom (cocktail) : ORANGE
42
Hercules' dirty dozen : LABORS
44
Squelch : SITON
45
Bridge : SPAN
46
Desdemona's detractor : IAGO
47
Suffix with idea and opera : TION
48
Heroine of Conrad's "Victory" : LENA
49
Eucalyptus or ailanthus : TREE
50
Holler : YELL
52
Duroc : HOG
53
Substance from madder : DYE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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