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Grace Fabbroni
Grace Fabbroni

New York Times, Monday, November 28, 1977

42-Across : More timid

Author:
Grace Fabbroni
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Grace Fabbroni has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,334
Across
1
Computer food : DATA
5
Gay spree : BLAST
10
One of the prexy's staff : PROF
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Like the Mojave : ARID
15
Corporeal channel : AORTA
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Place for a gutter : EAVE
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" ... curse not the ___": Ecclesiastes : RICH
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Filet mignon : STEAK
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Place in Genesis : EDEN
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Accepts as true : TAKESATONESWORD
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Actor Mineo : SAL
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Nectar inspector : BEE
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Bigots : RACISTS
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Bridge bid : TAKEOUT
33
Kings of Norway : OLAVS
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Friend, in Firenze : AMICO
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Theater's favorite letters : SRO
37
Chill : AGUE
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Area between the ribs and hip : FLANK
39
Bustle : STIR
40
Yellow ocher : SIL
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"___ by any other name ... " : AROSE
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More timid : SHIER
43
Assumes : TAKESON
45
Football passes : SPIRALS
47
Rushmore and Blanc, for short : MTS
48
Egg: Comb. form : OVI
49
Ultimatum of a sort : TAKEITORLEAVEIT
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Leprechaun's haunt : ERIN
59
Author of "Four Quartets" : ELIOT
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"Whoopee!" in old Athens : EVOE
61
Sever : REND
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Martinet's quality : RIGOR
63
Donizetti opera : RITA
64
Old gray mares : NAGS
65
Like daytime TV : SOAPY
66
What revolving doors don't do : SLAM
Down
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Tapered tuck : DART
2
"Song of India," e.g. : ARIA
3
Crude mattress : TICK
4
Sticky : ADHESIVE
5
A common lava : BASALT
6
Men's doubles champion of early 30's : LOTT
7
Pertaining to Mars : AREO
8
Laurel or Kenton : STAN
9
Retract : TAKEBACK
10
Runt : PEEWEE
11
One of the "Hair" writers : RADO
12
Wireless word : OVER
13
Keep off : FEND
21
Silvia ___, Met soprano : SASS
22
Mobutu Sese ___, Zaire President : SEKO
25
Dino's TV fete : ROAST
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Pain: Suffix : ALGIA
27
Make watertight : CAULK
28
Drawing room : SALON
29
Pitchfork parts : TINES
30
Ancient port of Rome : OSTIA
31
An archangel : URIEL
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Pressure units : TORRS
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Bell and Kettle : MAS
38
Bakery workers : FROSTERS
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Kennedy kin : SHRIVERS
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City in Piedmont : ASTI
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Deity riding on a bull : SIVA
44
Corrects : EMENDS
46
Countee Cullen's forte : POETRY
49
Sea bird : TERN
50
Kind of code : AREA
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Gerald Ford's original name : KING
52
Mishmash : OLIO
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Capital of Latvia : RIGA
54
Chicago landmark : LOOP
55
Kind of eye : EVIL
56
Jot : IOTA
57
Patriots or Yankees : TEAM

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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