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Joan Whitman
Joan Whitman

New York Times, Friday, November 25, 1983

14-Across : Talkative egoist or fop

Author:
Joan Whitman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 45, Avg Word Len: 4.86, Missing: { K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 56, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 26.3
Joan Whitman has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,435
Across
1
Flexible : PLIANT
7
Pointed end : CUSP
11
Vulgar upstart, in London : BOUNDER
12
Negatively charged atom : ANION
14
Talkative egoist or fop : POPINJAY
15
Steam-engine valve : POPPET
17
At ___ (perplexed) : ALOSS
18
Bors, e.g. : SIR
20
"___ Love You," 1934 song : PSI
21
Subject of a "Manon" aria : REVE
22
Catch : ENTRAP
25
Exiled Olympian : ATE
26
Where Dub. is : IRE
27
Light refractor : PRISM
28
Famed Parisian theater : ODEON
30
What Dolores means literally : SORROWS
32
Emerges : APPEARS
34
Rooftop fixture : EPI
35
Labor org. : AFL
36
Delay; withhold : SUSPEND
40
Moslem leaders : CALIPHS
44
State of turning: Comb. form : TROPY
45
An Atlanta university : EMORY
47
Johnson poverty org. : OEO
48
5½ yards : ROD
49
Mystery writers' awards : EDGARS
51
Kind of nail : SPAD
52
Wartime agcy. : OPA
53
Telepathy, for short : ESP
54
Glossy proof : REPRO
55
Child's toy : POPGUN
58
U.S. political movement: 1891–1904 : POPULISM
61
Spanish ladies : DONAS
62
Unmistakable : EVIDENT
63
Virtuous : PURE
64
Eateries : DINERS
Down
1
Hollow muffin : POPOVER
2
Actress Rainer : LUISE
3
Country stopovers : INNS
4
Staff off. : ADJ
5
Teachers' org. : NEA
6
Assignations : TRYSTS
7
"Lost Horizon" director : CAPRA
8
Italian article : UNO
9
Taste : SIP
10
Wife of Otho and Nero : POPPAEA
11
Short jacket : BOLERO
13
Wise Greek : NESTOR
14
Trojan warrior : PARIS
16
Pierre's "Think of that!" : TIENS
19
"___ la Douce" : IRMA
22
Actor Stu : ERWIN
23
Former capital of Serbia : NIS
24
Fielder's delight : POPFLY
27
Comic strongman : POPEYE
29
Pastrami parlor : DELI
31
Tie fabric : REPP
33
TV host Jack and family : PAARS
36
Sharpener : STROP
37
Lobster's limb : UROPOD
38
Soft drink : SODAPOP
39
B.A. and M.A. : DEGS
40
Heart, to Hadrian : COR
41
Umbrella woman : POPPINS
42
News magnate : HEARST
43
One of the Cities of the Plain : SODOM
46
Charted : MAPPED
50
Thick : DENSE
51
Authority on Mayan culture: 1849–1922 : SELER
54
Brassy : RUDE
56
Wildebeest : GNU
57
Egypt, once : UAR
59
Egg: Comb. form : OVI
60
Kind of oak : PIN

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

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