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Jean J. Davison
Jean J. Davison

New York Times, Friday, July 4, 1980

Author:
Jean J. Davison
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 46, Avg Word Len: 4.84, Missing: { G Q Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 7, XRef: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 12.5
Jean J. Davison has 62 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,196
Across
1
Shoemaker's tool : AWL
4
Health resort : SPA
7
Brace : PROP
11
Small spring : SEEP
13
Verve : ELAN
14
Strident noise : BLARE
15
Yard, e.g. : SPAR
16
Idle : VAIN
17
Opposite of dine out : EATIN
18
With 47 Across, challenge to George III : THEDECLARATION
21
Freshens, with "up" : PERKS
22
Caesar's defender : ANTONY
23
Bargains : DEALS
25
Sum, ___, fui ... : ESSE
26
With 37 Across, the date of the challenge : JULYFOURTH
29
Squeal : RAT
32
Jefferson or Paine : DEIST
33
Prescribe : SET
34
Small opening : STOMA
36
Union in D.C. : STA
37
See 26 Across : SEVENTYSIX
39
Pelage : HAIR
41
Word with dog or lop : EARED
42
Scholar : SAVANT
45
Mary-in-mourning sculpture : PIETA
47
See 18 Across : OFINDEPENDENCE
51
Electron tube : DIODE
52
Baal, e.g. : IDOL
53
Drift of events : TIDE
55
Where Van Gogh painted a bridge : ARLES
56
Lucid : SANE
57
Paella : STEW
58
Pinniped : SEAL
59
Stout : ALE
60
Direction from Lódz to Warsaw : ENE
Down
1
Hinny's relative : ASS
2
" ... the phoebes ___": Frost : WEPT
3
Daughter of Laban : LEAH
4
Lax : SLACK
5
Pipkins' cousins : PAILS
6
Donizetti's "___ Bolena" : ANNA
7
Missouri River tributary : PLATTE
8
Proportion : RATIO
9
Mark Twain's brother : ORION
10
Word with wise or ante : PENNY
12
Advances money for : PREPAYS
13
"Be it ___ humble ... " : EVERSO
14
Calabar and urd : BEANS
19
An earthenware : DELFT
20
Reckless : RASH
23
Siegmund-Sieglinde number : DUET
24
Lamb : ELIA
25
Suffix for kitchen : ETTE
26
Young criminals, in police parlance : JDS
27
Inventor's eventual target : USER
28
Race the engine : REV
29
Floribunda : ROSE
30
Mixed with : AMID
31
Stamp ___ : TAX
34
Aver : STATE
35
British officials, to the colonists : TYRANTS
37
Position of a monument : SITE
38
Bodkin : NEEDLE
39
"Water Music" composer : HANDEL
40
Site of Aconcagua : ANDES
42
Club and cherry : SODAS
43
Like Chicago in 1871 : AFIRE
44
Shakespearean heroine : VIOLA
45
Treadle : PEDAL
46
Hole-___ : INONE
48
Galileo's birthplace : PISA
49
Make reference to : CITE
50
London's "Martin ___" : EDEN
54
Lamb's mother : EWE

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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