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Adelyn Lewis
Adelyn Lewis

New York Times, Saturday, October 22, 1977

Author:
Adelyn Lewis
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.14, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 307 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10, Grid flow: 26.2
Adelyn Lewis has 9 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,297
Across
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Birds that ape human speech : DAWS
5
Cicero's pronoun for Catiline : ISTE
9
Benchley book : JAWS
13
Nourishing : ALIMENTAL
15
Like a weak old woman : ANILE
17
Climbing shrubs with hooked tendrils : CATSCLAWS
18
Natives of Gdynia : POLES
19
Icelandic letter : EDH
20
Mountain lake : TARN
21
Straw mattress : PALLET
22
Hauling cart : DRAY
24
Deluge : INUNDATE
26
Atoll makeup : CORAL
28
"I'd rather see than ___": G. Burgess : BEONE
29
Saroyan hero : ARAM
30
Canaries' cousins : SERINS
31
"Scots Wha ___": Burns : HAE
34
Yellowish sweet fruits : PAWPAWS
36
Playground equipment : SEESAWS
38
What a ques. expects : ANS
39
Destroyed : DASHED
41
Start of Clement Moore's famous poem : TWAS
42
Moldings : OGEES
43
Where the Ginza is : TOKYO
44
Heat wave : HOTSPELL
48
Cartoonist Addams : CHAS
49
Court decisions : ARRETS
50
Dies ___ : IRAE
52
Tool in a Markham poem : HOE
55
"___ Jacques" : FRERE
56
Ticket ignorers : SCOFFLAWS
58
Island in the Malay Archipelago : TIMOR
59
Reunion sites, at times : HOMETOWNS
60
Maxims : SAWS
61
Chemical suffixes : YNES
62
African fox : ASSE
Down
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Redfin : DACE
2
"When I was ___ ... ": Gilbert : ALAD
3
Retreats : WITHDRAWS
4
N.C.O.'s : SMS
5
Tooth filling : INLAY
6
Kind of sapphire : STAR
7
More brownish-yellow : TAWNIER
8
Some railroads : ELS
9
"The ___ Sandman," 1920 song : JAPANESE
10
"There was ___ woman ... " : ANOLD
11
Author Cather : WILLA
12
Freezing rain : SLEET
14
Outer : ECTAL
16
Italian princely family : ESTE
21
Played on words : PUNNED
23
Sloping passage : RAMP
25
Causes of ear pollution : NOISES
26
Toreador's cloak : CAPA
27
Scene of a naval battle: July 1940 : ORAN
28
Lunar crater named for an astronomer : BESSEL
30
Metal-working tools : SWAGES
31
Detectives : HAWKSHAWS
32
Farthest from the pin : AWAY
33
It, in Italy : ESSO
35
Some parents : ADOPTERS
37
___ of Eumenes, at foot of Acropolis : STOA
40
Circular tuba : HELICON
43
Second-story man's crime : THEFT
44
Sickle handle : HAFT
45
Lace used for upholstery : ORRIS
46
Tropical tree genus : TREMA
47
Himalayan goat-antelope : SEROW
48
Nightclubs : CAFES
51
City in N.Y. or Ga. : ROME
53
Acknowledges : OWNS
54
Existence : ESSE
56
Owing the pot : SHY
57
Mauna ___ : LOA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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