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Joan Whitman
Joan Whitman

New York Times, Tuesday, August 26, 1980

Author:
Joan Whitman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 37.8
Joan Whitman has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,249
Across
1
Nuisance : PEST
5
Basso Tajo of the Met : ITALO
10
Angelico's colleagues : FRAS
14
Place famed for a sparkling wine : ASTI
15
Consumerist : NADER
16
Declaim : RANT
17
Lunch in Linares? : SPANISHOMELETTE
20
With: Prefix : SYN
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Negro and Grande : RIOS
22
Beginning : ONSET
23
Commanded : BADE
24
Reptile, for short : CROC
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Epicure's pride : PALATE
29
Pants peddler : CLOTHIER
33
Similar : ALIKE
34
Sharpener : WHETSTONE
35
Dover ___ : SOLE
36
Rooms, in Toledo : SALAS
37
A brother of Er : ONAN
38
Custom : TRADITION
40
Chief Justice: 1874–88 : WAITE
41
Salad green : ESCAROLE
42
Neighbor of Aquarius : PISCES
43
Hollow places : LAPS
44
"Candid Camera" man : FUNT
45
Milieu of some greyhounds : OCEAN
48
Interlaken waterway : AARE
49
"The Lip" : LEO
52
Sauce in Siberia? : RUSSIANDRESSING
56
Lectern : DESK
57
Free from frost : DEICE
58
Depraved : EVIL
59
Concert halls : ODEA
60
Out of style : DATED
61
Surrender : CEDE
Down
1
Lateral, e.g. : PASS
2
See : ESPY
3
Smith of tennis : STAN
4
Can : TIN
5
Kind of track or job : INSIDE
6
Western border lake : TAHOE
7
Stirs : ADOS
8
Space-vehicle unit : LEM
9
Bergen coin : ORE
10
Breakfast in Bordeaux? : FRENCHTOAST
11
Exclamation of disgust : RATS
12
Stake : ANTE
13
MS. mark : STET
18
Provoked : IRATE
19
Sacks : LOOTS
23
Final course in Fairbanks? : BAKEDALASKA
24
Pure : CLEAN
25
Deteriorates : ROTS
26
Jellylike candy : PASTE
27
Then, in Dijon : ALORS
28
New Hampshire's state flower : LILAC
29
Song heroine: 1927 : CHLOE
30
Type style : IONIC
31
Relative on the mother's side : ENATE
32
Descartes and Clair : RENES
34
Mourns : WAILS
36
Cork : STOP
39
Bani-Sadr, e.g. : IRANI
40
California products : WINES
42
Prepared vegetables for soup : PUREED
44
"Charley's Aunt" is one : FARCE
45
Church calendar : ORDO
46
Signaled a thespian : CUED
47
Being : ESSE
48
Passage for a U.M.W. man : ADIT
49
Kind of performance : LIVE
50
Geraint's wife : ENID
51
Flirt, in a way : OGLE
53
Form a sum : ADD
54
Teachers' org : NEA
55
Govt. agency : SEC

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

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