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Jeanne Wilson
Jeanne Wilson

New York Times, Thursday, September 29, 1977

40-Down : Easy fight

Author:
Jeanne Wilson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.64, Missing: { F G J X Y }, Scrabble score: 299 (avg 1.65)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jeanne Wilson has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,274
Across
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An arm or a leg : LIMB
5
In shape, as a boxer : SHARP
10
Sun oneself : BASK
14
Verbal : ORAL
15
Bridge card above nine : HONOR
16
Italian wine town : ASTI
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Jab : POKE
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Defeated, in a way : OUTPOINTED
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Largest city in N.J. : NEWARK
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Printing measures : EMS
23
Cries of pain : OWS
24
Last of the count : TEN
25
Item for a dinghy : OAR
27
Oriental nurses : AMAHS
30
Boxer-manager agreements : CONTRACTS
36
Kind of wolf : LONE
37
Away from aweather : ALEE
38
Pugnacious child : BRAT
39
Did business at the box office : SOLD
40
Radar terms : BLIPS
41
Crimson Tide, for short : BAMA
42
Baseball brothers' name : ALOU
43
___ Ridge (famed race horse) : RIVA
44
Kaffir warriors : IMPI
45
Retreat in the ring : BACKPEDAL
47
Words from the pit : ATPAR
48
Victorian or Vulgar : ERA
49
Founder of Dadaism : ARP
50
On the double : PDQ
53
Pittsburgh catcher and wrestling expert : OTT
55
Good news on Wall St. : UPTURN
58
Potential haymaker : ROUNDHOUSE
61
Part of speech : NOUN
63
Sills's forte : ARIA
64
Climb into the ring : ENTER
65
Kind of root : CUBE
66
Labyrinth : MAZE
67
Isn't illiterate : READS
68
Command, old style : HEST
Down
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Truncate : LOP
2
Word with fisted or handed : IRON
3
Manufacture : MAKE
4
Lost a fight: Slang : BLEWTHEDUKE
5
Clipped : SHORN
6
Former Yankee manager : HOUK
7
Picnic attendee : ANT
8
Ring appurtenance : ROPE
9
Stages, as fights : PROMOTES
10
Taboo : BAN
11
Anent : ASTO
12
Mulligan, e.g. : STEW
13
Chocolate and Gavilan : KIDS
19
River to the Danube : ISAR
21
He lost to D.D.E. : AES
26
Illegal blow : RABBITPUNCH
27
Great horse of 1942 : ALSAB
28
Dough or bread : MOOLA
29
Vietnam city devastated in 1972 : ANLOC
30
Old word for warm : CALID
31
Three-time A.L. batting champ : OLIVA
32
One of India's neighbors : NEPAL
33
Muscular contraction : CRAMP
34
Home of the Buccaneers : TAMPA
35
Step : STAIR
40
Easy fight : BREATHER
46
Urge along : PROD
47
Manly ___ of self-defense : ART
49
Mimes : APERS
50
Hyde Park vehicle : PRAM
51
Tennyson poem : DORA
52
Short test : QUIZ
54
Normal muscle tension : TONE
55
No longer new : USED
56
Rake : ROUE
57
Central points : NUBS
59
Scotch negative : NAE
60
Hagen of theater : UTA
62
After deductions : NET

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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