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Jean J. Davison
Jean J. Davison

New York Times, Thursday, June 28, 1979

Author:
Jean J. Davison
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { B J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 33.4
Jean J. Davison has 62 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,824
Across
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"___ law," in electricity : OHMS
5
Old-hat : PASSE
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Off target : WIDE
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Parnassian : POET
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Tree with fluttering leaves : ASPEN
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Suffix with comment or orient : ATOR
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Somewhat indisposed : UNDERTHEWEATHER
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Transfixed, as shish kebab : SKEWERED
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Parts of stairways : RISERS
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Feudal land holding : ALOD
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Field-related: Comb. form : AGRO
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Lacking behavioral guides : AMORAL
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Estrange : ALIENATE
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Behind time : TARDY
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Hairy; downy : PILED
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Law, to Livy : LEX
34
Pull : TUG
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Everybody, in Mexico : TODOS
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Prefix with cycle or dent : TRI
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G. & S. princess : IDA
38
Hellcat : SHREW
39
Kickoff or kick off : START
41
On the "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" : CENSORED
43
Siesta "music" : SNORES
44
Son of Seth : ENOS
45
French calf : VEAU
46
Harbor seal : SEACAT
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Challenge : CONFRONT
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Illegally : UNDERTHECOUNTER
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City in Oklahoma : ENID
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Crescent; orbed : LUNAR
57
Suffix with Bernard or Paul : ETTE
58
Going price : RATE
59
Col. Tibbets's ___ Gay : ENOLA
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Former U.S. ambassador to U.N. : YOST
Down
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Musical work : OPUS
2
Sound of a wild goose or driver : HONK
3
"One man's ___ is another man's Persian" : MEDE
4
Cruise attendant : STEWARD
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Part of S.P. : PATROL
6
Burned completely : ASHED
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Emulated a jehu : SPED
8
Overcast : SEW
9
What high-powered people expend : ENERGIES
10
Aide to Bell or Holmes : WATSON
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Spillane's "___ Jury" : ITHE
12
Go-getter : DOER
13
Strays : ERRS
18
Kind of race : RELAY
19
Publicized : AIRED
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Let : ALLOW
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Place to find an antique : ATTIC
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Bea Arthur's TV role : MAUDE
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"Lost Chord" instrument : ORGAN
27
Assisted : AIDED
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Place for sacrifice : ALTAR
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___ Haute : TERRE
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Egresses : EXITS
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Studies hard : PORES
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Casey Jones gripped it : THROTTLE
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Destroyer's apparatus : SONAR
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Awry, to a G.I. : SNAFU
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Series of contests : TOURNEY
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Withdraw : SECEDE
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Dama's title : SENORA
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Outspoken : VOCAL
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Litigant : SUER
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Sicilian city : ENNA
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Mine entrance : ADIT
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Recent: Comb. form : CENO
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Nobelist Hahn: 1944 : OTTO
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N.J. court team : NETS
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Tare's follower : TRET
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Attila was one : HUN

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

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