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Jones
Jones

New York Times, Friday, May 25, 1979

Author:
Jones
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.37, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 35.1
Jones has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,790
Across
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Mulligans : STEWS
6
Sour : ACERB
11
Unsteady : ASTATIC
13
Works by a German painter-engraver : DURERS
15
Horner's comment : WHATAGOODBOYAMI
18
French tapestry town : ARRAS
19
Chest sounds : RALES
20
Force; power : VIS
21
First-aid gear : KITS
22
Chose : OPTED
23
Colombian city : CALI
24
First lady : EVE
25
Hale and Hari : SPIES
26
Olive green : LODEN
27
What hysterics need : SEDATION
29
Enjoy : SAVOR
30
West Germany's capital : BONN
31
Word with down or line : PIPE
32
Practical : UTILE
34
Handy Andy : FIXITMAN
38
Slyly derisive : SNIDE
39
Hamlet and Borge : DANES
40
Guido's high note : ELA
41
___ out (destroy) : WIPE
42
Sea swallows : TERNS
43
Townsend or Marshall : PLAN
44
Likely : APT
45
Betel palm : ARECA
46
"I ___ Say No" : CAINT
47
Sociable fellow : GOODTIMECHARLIE
50
Set apart solemnly : DEVOTE
51
Injuries : LESIONS
52
Ate in style : DINED
53
Live : EXIST
Down
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Moved suddenly : STARTED
2
So longs : TATAS
3
Letters from Greece : ETAS
4
Wag's partner : WIG
5
Lizard or skink : SCORPION
6
Confuses : ADDLES
7
Did a math task : CUBED
8
Asteroid #433 : EROS
9
Isla del ___, in the Gulf of Panama : REY
10
Pretended courage : BRAVADO
11
Activates : AWAKES
12
Free from guilt : SHRIVE
14
Cheshire cat, e.g. : SMILER
16
Like some breakfast cereals : OATEN
17
"The proof of the pudding ___ ... " : ISIN
22
Think out loud : OPINE
23
Crave to possess : COVET
25
What the piper's son did : STOLE
26
___ lazuli : LAPIS
28
Stand fast : ABIDE
29
Two make "boxcars" at Vegas : SIXES
31
Acme : PINNACLE
32
Camera support : UNIPOD
33
What Tiny Tim did in the tulip bed : TIPTOED
34
Samuel Foote's forte : FARCE
35
Sweet clover : MELILOT
36
An amino acid : ALANIN
37
City at the mouth of the Loire : NANTES
38
Festoon : SWAG
39
Judged : DEEMED
42
No longer fresh : TRITE
43
Nobleman to whom Juliet was betrothed : PARIS
45
Like ___ of bricks : ATON
46
Almost, in Alicante : CASI
48
Year in the reign of Theodoric the Great : DVI
49
Jinx : HEX

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

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