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Michelle Arnot
Michelle Arnot

New York Times, Thursday, July 26, 1979

14-Across : Like rural roads

Author:
Michelle Arnot
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J P Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 23.6
Michelle Arnot has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,852
Across
1
Short race : DASH
5
Phoenician deity : BAAL
9
Fermented drink : MEAD
13
___ breve, musical passage : ALLA
14
Like rural roads : DUSTY
15
Eye amorously : OGLE
16
Beethoven opus : MOONLIGHTSONATA
19
Roosevelt program : NEWDEAL
20
Angular military building : REDAN
21
Time past : YORE
22
Christie's "The ___ in the Library" : BODY
24
Caprice : WHIMSY
27
Dismiss : FIRE
28
Actor Steiger : ROD
31
Greek letter : IOTA
32
Greenhouse plant : CALLA
33
Rocks, at times : ICE
34
Anthem phrase : DAWNSEARLYLIGHT
38
Now, to Pedro : ORA
39
Subjects to strain : TRIES
40
Gondola fare : LIRE
41
Lang. units : WDS
42
Peel : RIND
43
Mobile artist : CALDER
45
Unescorted : LONE
46
Prefix with conscious or colon : SEMI
47
Superficially elegant : SLEEK
50
Din : CLANGOR
54
Woolf opus : TOTHELIGHTHOUSE
58
St. Vincent Millay : EDNA
59
Navy uniform, informally : BLUES
60
Elba, for one : ISLE
61
Partner of wash : WEAR
62
Post : SEND
63
Equipped with tires : SHOD
Down
1
"___ Yankees" : DAMN
2
Relative of an onion : ALOE
3
Traffic sign : SLOW
4
Super's aide : HANDYMAN
5
Boot camp "alarm clock" : BUGLE
6
Wood for tool handles : ASH
7
Lawyer: Abbr. : ATT
8
Ghent's river : LYS
9
Root of all evil : MONEY
10
Victorian exclamation : EGAD
11
___ Peak, in the Sierra Nevadas : ALTA
12
Academic official : DEAN
14
Anne Frank's book : DIARY
17
Durocher and Carroll : LEOS
18
Severe trial : ORDEAL
22
Unwanted mail : BILLS
23
Parisian airport : ORLY
24
In cards, an extra hand : WIDOW
25
Cache : HOARD
26
"___ a Very Good Year," Sinatra hit : ITWAS
27
Got along : FARED
28
Unyielding : RIGID
29
Earthy hue : OCHRE
30
Inhibit : DETER
32
Wouk ship : CAINE
35
Caress : STROKE
36
Shamrock country : ERIN
37
Land of Lincoln : ILLINOIS
43
Welsh, e.g. : CELTS
44
Oriental nurse : AMAH
45
"Merry Widow" composer : LEHAR
46
R.R. giveaway : SCHED
47
Worry : STEW
48
Word with star or stone : LODE
49
It causes Sicilians to pray to St. Agatha : ETNA
51
Act effusive : GUSH
52
Capital of Norway : OSLO
53
Orchestral member : REED
55
What oz. may add up to : LBS
56
One-act play by O'Neill : ILE
57
Jump the ___ : GUN

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

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