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Jean J. Davison
Jean J. Davison

New York Times, Thursday, August 16, 1979

Author:
Jean J. Davison
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 24.1
Jean J. Davison has 62 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,873
Across
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Eager : AVID
5
Kind of sugar or syrup : MAPLE
10
Nicklaus and Palmer, e.g. : PROS
14
Explosive device : MINE
15
Irritating : ACRID
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Part of a roof : EAVE
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Lid in a street (nonsexist style) : PERSONHOLECOVER
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Disparaged : DECRIED
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Burdens for Brutus : ONERA
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Peruse : READ
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Nimble : SPRY
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Negligent : REMISS
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Chimpanzees and gorillas : APES
29
Haggard's Ayesha : SHE
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Succulent plant : ALOE
33
Mall unit : STORE
34
Conflict : WAR
35
Worldly one (nonsexist style) : PERSONABOUTTOWN
39
Manet's "___ Boat" : INA
40
Old Nick : SATAN
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Nylons, e.g. : HOSE
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"Life with Father" author : DAY
43
Leave out : OMIT
44
Old hags : CRONES
46
Small bird : WREN
47
Blue, in Bonn : BLAU
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Alaskan highway : ALCAN
51
Member of a farmers' organization : GRANGER
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Unpremeditated homicide (nonsexist style) : PERSONSLAUGHTER
58
Hit a dipteran : SWAT
59
Commences : OPENS
60
Word before poem or deaf : TONE
61
Advance gradually : EDGE
62
Beatrice's admirer : DANTE
63
Haughty one : SNOB
Down
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Elec. unit : AMP
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Contested : VIED
3
Anent : INRE
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Spies : DESCRIES
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Crazes : MANIAS
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Hurt : ACHED
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Goad : PROD
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Diamond ___ : LIL
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Dutch commune : EDE
10
Gaudy flower : PEONY
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Glowing review : RAVE
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" ... the rain is ___ and gone" : OVER
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Evening, in Milano : SERA
18
Unrefined materials : ORES
19
"Gay Nineties" unmentionable : CORSET
23
Pitch woo : SPOON
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Scene of Pizarro's conquest : PERU
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Part of IRT : RAPID
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___ Mukhina. Soviet gymnast : ELENA
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Voracious eel : MORAY
28
Up, in baseball : ATBAT
29
Faint : SWOON
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Ship's hole for cables : HAWSE
31
Anagram for sneer : ERNES
33
Lining material : SATIN
36
City in Chile : OSORNO
37
Designate : NAME
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"___ rule the world": Emerson : THOUGHTS
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Contract section : CLAUSE
45
Telephoned : RANG
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Consume uselessly : WASTE
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Arctic goose : BRANT
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Church section : APSE
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Obscene : LEWD
50
Rough, broken cliff : CRAG
51
Secluded valley : GLEN
52
Public school : ETON
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Splitsville, U.S.A. : RENO
55
Doze : NOD
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Health spot : SPA
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Johnny ___ : REB

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

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