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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Friday, February 24, 1984

57-Down : Blockhead

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,526
Across
1
Fibrous food : BRAN
5
Speckle : FLECK
10
Decree : FIAT
14
Frost : RIME
15
Bucolic : RURAL
16
Prefix with meter : ALTI
17
Turkish titles : AGAS
18
Set aside : ONICE
19
Some stories : LIES
20
Light-lunch item : COTTAGECHEESE
23
Bunch of Brownies : TROOP
24
Town in NE Italy : ESTE
25
All smiles : RIANT
29
Rose essence : ATTAR
33
Tolkien creature : ORC
36
Sailing craft : SLOOPS
39
London lad's swing, perhaps : TYRE
40
Mrs. Wakefield's tasty treat : TOLLHOUSECOOKIE
43
" ... blue skies do ___" : ISEE
44
What tax payments may be in : ESCROW
45
Wawaskeesh : ELK
46
Espresso ingredient : CAFFE
48
Site of Vulcan's workshop : AETNA
50
Crushed underfoot : TROD
53
Longfellow heroine : ELSIE
57
Steakhouse entree : CHATEAUBRIAND
61
Boris contemporary : BELA
63
Bird woman of myth : HARPY
64
Witt's asteroid : EROS
65
Stravinsky ballet : AGON
66
Banks or Pyle : ERNIE
67
Not any, to Burns : NANE
68
Conn. senator : DODD
69
Gee-haw controls : REINS
70
Cartoonist Silverstein : SHEL
Down
1
Flower part : BRACT
2
Severity : RIGOR
3
Italian baritone: 1879-1942 : AMATO
4
King of Pylos : NESTOR
5
Fastening on a belt : FROG
6
"Au Clair de la ___" : LUNE
7
Author Ambler : ERIC
8
Hide : CACHE
9
Bern artist's display : KLEES
10
Register for Pavarotti : FALSETTO
11
Nastase : ILIE
12
Blind impulse, personified : ATE
13
Scale notes : TIS
21
Imitative : APISH
22
J.F.K. letters : ETA
26
Medicinal plant : ALOE
27
Entre ___ : NOUS
28
Cavaradossi's love : TOSCA
30
Little feller : TYKE
31
Integument : ARIL
32
Give out fumes : REEK
33
Auricular : OTIC
34
Artist Bonheur : ROSA
35
Staff sign : CLEF
37
Fille's father : PERE
38
William Wallace, for one : SCOT
41
Devious; clumsy : LEFTHAND
42
Steinbrenner, to a Yankee : OWNER
47
Amendment backed by NOW : ERA
49
E.T. and friends : ALIENS
51
Different : OTHER
52
"The Wreck of the Mary ___" : DEARE
54
Singer Vaughan : SARAH
55
___ fell swoop : INONE
56
Detroit disappointment : EDSEL
57
Blockhead : CLOD
58
Female wild buffalo : ARNI
59
"___ Central Park" : UPIN
60
Draws for Connors : BYES
61
Unsound : BAD
62
I, to Claudius : EGO

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

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