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Jones
Jones

New York Times, Saturday, August 25, 1984

24-Across : Maintain

Author:
Jones
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { H J Q V W X }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 86, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jones has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,709
Across
1
Formally opens : DEDICATES
10
Raised rapidly : RANUP
15
Reduction : ABATEMENT
16
Book by Carole Klein : ALINE
17
Count in "The Marble Faun" : DONATELLO
18
"Cut the comedy!" : CANIT
19
Sandy's single : ANE
20
What a ques. demands : ANS
21
Prevailing condition : CLIMATE
23
Concerned with : INTO
24
Maintain : KEEP
25
Word with talk or tennis : TABLE
28
Dubs : NAMES
30
Draft org. : SSS
33
An opposite of down : ACROSS
35
Strict stickler : MARTINET
37
Cattle calls : MOOS
38
Town NE of Venice : UDINE
40
First president of Angola : NETO
41
Diplomat's concern : PROTOCOL
43
U.S. Vice President: 1845-49 : DALLAS
45
Trio joiner : AND
46
5.619 bushels, in Egypt : ARDEB
48
Evans and Robertson : DALES
49
Astaire or Waring : FRED
50
" ... ___ in the daytime": Psalms : ICRY
52
Blind alley : IMPASSE
55
Pleasure, in Paris : GRE
56
Apt suffix for visual : IZE
59
Whey : SERUM
60
Piano soundboard, e.g. : RESONATOR
63
In harmony : ATONE
64
Crossword solver's asset : EDUCATION
65
Jampan : SEDAN
66
Skid-row denizens : DERELICTS
Down
1
Tzara's art cult : DADA
2
Black : EBON
3
"The Lay of Havelok the ___" : DANE
4
Give ___ whirl : ITA
5
Petroleum ingredients : CETANES
6
Catkin : AMENT
7
Middle flipper of a lobster's tail : TELSON
8
Photo order : ENL
9
Reagan's budget director : STOCKMAN
10
Most spirited : RACIEST
11
" ... ___ unto my feet": Psalms : ALAMP
12
Schneider or Bawden : NINA
13
Type of factor or rule : UNIT
14
Rose or Rozelle : PETE
22
Eyed wickedly : LEERED
23
"___ my yellow basket" : ILOST
25
Fla. port : TAMPA
26
Incipient oak : ACORN
27
Coop group : BROOD
29
Go ___ a minute : AMILE
30
Fishhook fastening : SNELL
31
Bristles : SETAE
32
Lee's icy opposite : STOSS
34
Ecuadorian dollars : SUCRES
36
Buhlwork : INLAY
39
Moved unsteadily : DODDERED
42
Shell's team : OARSMEN
44
Endocrine gland : ADRENAL
47
Calif. resort : BIGSUR
49
Part of the biota : FAUNA
51
Leroy Brown's creator : CROCE
52
"The corn ___ high ... " : ISAS
53
Limit : METE
54
Urge on : PROD
56
Ending for palm or graph : ITIC
57
Jazzman Sims : ZOOT
58
Bald eagles' kin : ERNS
61
Gelderland city : EDE
62
When many meet for lunch : ATI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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