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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Tuesday, April 3, 1984

40-Down : Grasshoppers' kin

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 40.8
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. 12,565
Across
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Burden : ONUS
5
Italian seaport : BARI
9
Distort : COLOR
14
Monthly bill : RENT
15
Actor O'Neal : RYAN
16
Reckon : OPINE
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Showed excessive politeness : BOWEDANDSCRAPED
20
Party to : INON
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"Play ___ It Lays": Didion : ITAS
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Harper Valley org. : PTA
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Pilot's concern : CLOUDFORMATION
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Chick : GAL
27
Puppeteer Baird : BIL
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Peete's org. : PGA
29
Black bird : ANI
30
Salty drops : TEARS
33
Jostle : ELBOW
37
Ache : LONG
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Diner's "turf" : STEAK
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Hindu god of love : KAMA
42
Norse sea god : AEGIR
44
Kind of heat : SOLAR
46
Disencumber : RID
47
Chou En-___ : LAI
49
Blind impulse personified : ATE
50
Air Force ___ : ONE
51
Theme song of early TV, with "It's" : HOWDYDOODYTIME
57
A cont. : AFR
58
Pope in 903 : LEOV
59
Roy's missus : DALE
60
Latin student's song of joy : GAUDEAMUSIGITUR
65
Moorehead or De Mille : AGNES
66
Trudge : PLOD
67
Group attraction in Vegas : KENO
68
Toomey or Philbin : REGIS
69
Creatures with no sweat glands : HENS
70
Soprano Mills : ERIE
Down
1
Eye, to a poet : ORB
2
Prefix with classicism : NEO
3
Loath : UNWILLING
4
Note taker : STENO
5
Marc and kirsch : BRANDIES
6
Novelist Rand : AYN
7
Car appurtenance : RADIO
8
Tchr. : INSTR
9
Dance souvenir : CORSAGE
10
___-Locka, Fla. : OPA
11
Fra Lippo ___ : LIPPI
12
"___ a customer" : ONETO
13
Tooth-shaped fortification : REDAN
18
Distrust : DOUBT
19
Home away from home : CAMP
23
White-water craft : CANOE
24
Some cockney abodes : FLATS
25
Gossip : TALK
26
Festive : GALA
31
Auto acronym : REO
32
"Crazy ___," Ephron book : SALAD
34
Change indicator : BAROMETER
35
"Mother ___," Kipling poem : OMINE
36
Walk through snow drifts : WADE
38
Overlay with gold : GILD
40
Grasshoppers' kin : KATYDIDS
43
Dark and gloomy, as a cave : RAYLESS
45
Affix a "marked-down" label : RETAG
48
Thought : IDEA
51
"Horrible" Viking of the comics : HAGAR
52
"Coming ___ in Samoa," Mead book : OFAGE
53
Twisted : WRUNG
54
Vim : OOMPH
55
Rudimentary seed : OVULE
56
Words on an old campaign button : ILIKE
61
"Agnus ___" : DEI
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Absalom, to David : SON
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Prefix with corn : UNI
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Delicacy from the sea : ROE

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

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