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Jeanette K. Brill
Jeanette K. Brill

New York Times, Friday, December 6, 1991

45-Across : Song from "Scandals of 1924"

Author:
Jeanette K. Brill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.14, Missing: { C K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 305 (avg 1.65)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 37.6
Jeanette K. Brill has 78 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,368
Across
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Play by e. e. cummings : HIM
4
Jazz tune or dance : STOMP
9
Jolts : JARS
13
Excited : AGOG
15
Ardent : EAGER
16
Tony's cousin : OBIE
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Song from "Whoopee" : LOVEMEORLEAVEME
20
Setback : RELAPSE
21
Showed pleasure : SMILED
22
Hewer : AXE
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"___ Mouse": Burns : TOA
24
Song from "A Chorus Line" : WHATIDIDFORLOVE
33
Nobelist in Physics: 1944 : RABI
34
___ Kea, Hawaiian peak : MAUNA
35
Pro ___ : TEM
36
Rocket stage : AGENA
38
Hanks movie : BIG
39
" ... ___ man put asunder" : LETNO
41
Zadora or Lindstrom : PIA
42
Engraved pillar : STELA
44
Unsettled : MOOT
45
Song from "Scandals of 1924" : SOMEBODYLOVESME
49
Silent : MUM
50
Average amount : PAR
51
State positively : ASSERT
54
Doorkeeper : OSTIARY
58
Song from "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" : WHENYOUREINLOVE
61
Artery : ROAD
62
Swedish port : MALMO
63
Active one : DOER
64
Urges : YENS
65
Belle's boy : SWAIN
66
Flavor intensifier, for short : MSG
Down
1
Prince of Broadway : HAL
2
Prince of opera : IGOR
3
Resettle : MOVE
4
Transuded : SEEPED
5
N.M. art colony : TAOS
6
Windigo : OGRE
7
Actor Gibson : MEL
8
"The Music Man" star : PRESTON
9
Merry : JOVIAL
10
Co-inventor of cordite : ABEL
11
Frozen dew : RIME
12
Progeny : SEED
14
Stage-light color sheet : GELATIN
18
Kind of skirt : MAXI
19
Sans ethical standards : AMORAL
24
Checkroom items : WRAPS
25
Sacred: Comb. form : HAGIO
26
Facing a ship's length : ABEAM
27
Set in earth : IMBED
28
Quotidian : DAILY
29
Like some Bach music : FUGAL
30
Some Holy Roman emperors : OTTOS
31
Malice : VENOM
32
Overact : EMOTE
37
___ Park, N.J. : ASBURY
40
Precious gem : EMERALD
43
Indian drums : TOMTOMS
46
Edits : EMENDS
47
Choice : OPTION
48
Idle : VAIN
51
Amiss : AWRY
52
Secque or sollaret : SHOE
53
Dramatist O'Casey : SEAN
54
Border, in Barcelona : ORLA
55
Kind of truck : SEMI
56
Cuddy or study : ROOM
57
M. Montand: 1921-91 : YVES
59
Org. Reuther headed : UAW
60
Desert area : ERG

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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