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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Tuesday, August 20, 1985

5-Down : Tasks

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 302 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 25.1 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,069
Across
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Wanders about : GADS
5
Piece of jewelry : JADE
9
Trim with loops : PICOT
14
An organ stop : OBOE
15
Attic coin : OBOL
16
Place to spend 15 Across : AGORA
17
Kind of crier : TOWN
18
Wowed : BOWLEDOVER
20
Count Vronsky's love : ANNA
21
Bleaching agent : SUN
22
Imprisonment : DURESS
23
Mettle revealers : TESTS
25
Shinbone : TIBIA
27
Spree : TEAR
29
"Do ___ disturb" : NOT
30
Footnote abbr. : IBID
34
Scoundrel : CUR
36
Slugger Staub : RUSTY
38
Diacritical mark : BREVE
39
Children's folk song : OVERINTHEMEADOW
42
Students take these : SEATS
43
Lofty pad : AERIE
44
Parched : DRY
45
Mild : TAME
46
Mil. group : DIV
47
Long : ACHE
49
Single-celled organism : MONAD
51
Hide behind words : HEDGE
54
Robin's lass : MARIAN
58
Zodiacal sign : LEO
60
"An apple ___ ... " : ADAY
61
Repaired completely : OVERHAULED
63
Amour : LOVE
64
Closet lining : CEDAR
65
___ Deep (oceanic depression) : NERO
66
Wide-mouthed pitcher : EWER
67
Danish coin : KRONE
68
The vat man : DYER
69
Hereditary factors : DNAS
Down
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Bribed : GOTAT
2
"To fetch her poor dog ___" : ABONE
3
With the current : DOWNSTREAM
4
Where Mondale once ruled : SENATE
5
Tasks : JOBS
6
Circa : ABOUT
7
Traditional folk song : DOWNINTHEVALLEY
8
Wright wing : ELL
9
"Taming of the Shrew" locale : PADUA
10
Conductor Buketoff : IGOR
11
Place for a marina : COVE
12
Malachite and manganese : ORES
13
Salts : TARS
19
Blue-pencil : EDIT
24
Rani's wardrobe : SARIS
26
Clete or Charles : BOYER
28
Hosiery mishap : RUN
30
Savings plan: Abbr. : IRA
31
Ready for the night : BEDDEDDOWN
32
Welsh actor Novello : IVOR
33
Like a petal in the morning : DEWY
34
Charge : COST
35
Optic layer : UVEA
37
Spot : STAIN
38
Nut-bearing tree : BEECH
40
Map abbr. : RTE
41
Actress Farrow : MIA
46
Lady from Lisbon : DONA
48
Made well : HEALED
49
U.S. Olympic skier : MAHRE
50
A plow inventor : DEERE
52
___ leg up (lent a hand) : GAVEA
53
Witnesses : EYERS
54
Ersatz : MOCK
55
Say : AVER
56
Work over : REDO
57
Abadán is here : IRAN
59
Repute : ODOR
62
Humperdinck's "Hänsel ___ Gretel" : UND

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

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