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Grace Fabbroni
Grace Fabbroni

New York Times, Monday, February 18, 1980

53-Down : Cheerful

Author:
Grace Fabbroni
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { F J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 33.3 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Grace Fabbroni has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,059
Across
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Caesar, for one : SALAD
6
July zodiac figure : CRAB
10
Football play : PASS
14
S.A. ruminant : LLAMA
15
Dance of the 50th state : HULA
16
Part of Q.E.F. : ERAT
17
Hove clear, as an anchor : ATRIP
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U.S. citizen : AMER
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Decorate anew : REDO
20
His gun is quick : MIKEHAMMER
22
Wading bird : RAIL
23
Thatching palm : NIPA
24
French palace : ELYSEE
26
Ladle : DIPPER
30
Automaton : GOLEM
32
Beehive State : UTAH
33
Uniform : EVEN
35
Cartoonist and family : NASTS
39
"Johnny ___," 1948 movie : BELINDA
41
Like some measures : DRASTIC
43
Photographer's request : SMILE
44
Graf ___ : SPEE
46
Stewpot : OLLA
47
Egg-shaped : OVATE
49
"Hap" or Benedict : ARNOLD
51
Captain ___ of comics : MARVEL
54
Exceptional : RARE
56
"Un bel di," e.g. : ARIA
57
Spinster sleuth : MISSMARPLE
63
Land bordering the Caspian Sea : IRAN
64
Keats feats : ODES
65
Cunctation : DELAY
66
Coating for iron : ZINC
67
Turn a mast : SLUE
68
Maternal relative : ENATE
69
Ancient Roman ruins : ESTE
70
Rating device : TEST
71
Liturgies : RITES
Down
1
Bridge bid : SLAM
2
High: Prefix : ALTI
3
Gambol : LARK
4
French female friend : AMIE
5
Apollo's favorite tree? : DAPHNE
6
Woodley's "The ___": 1979 : CHAMP
7
Kind of sale : RUMMAGE
8
Helm direction : ALEE
9
Part of a gun : BARREL
10
Case worker : PERRYMASON
11
Sections : AREAS
12
Miss Thompson : SADIE
13
Fur piece : STOLE
21
Publicized : AIRED
25
Yakutsk's river : LENA
26
Confers knighthood : DUBS
27
Part of an agenda : ITEM
28
Buddhist scripture language : PALI
29
S. S. Van Dine crime fighter : PHILOVANCE
31
Marcel's wave : ONDE
34
Like the Sahara : VAST
36
Manche town : STLO
37
Cultivate : TILL
38
Tropical fish : SCAD
40
Granular snow : NEVE
42
Furnish with new weapons : REARM
45
Medusa's slayer : PERSEUS
48
Not quite : ALMOST
50
Primer : READER
51
Pale yellow : MAIZE
52
Column ridge : ARRIS
53
Cheerful : RIANT
55
Useful quality : ASSET
58
Pointless : IDLE
59
Painter of "Fortuna" : RENI
60
Piece of ground : PLAT
61
Kind of show : LATE
62
A sight for sore ___ : EYES

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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