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Louise Earnest
Louise Earnest

New York Times, Saturday, October 25, 1975

32-Across : Gertrude and family

Author:
Louise Earnest
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.34, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 298 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Louise Earnest has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,569
Across
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Work on a cavity : DRILL
6
Palm of Asia : ARECA
11
"Will it play in ___?" : PEORIA
12
Being concerned : CARING
14
High, narrow footway : CATWALK
15
Hot place for a cat : TINROOF
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___ France : ILEDE
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Lyric poem : EPODE
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Appropriate : DUE
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Ivied : VINY
22
Incites : SPURS
23
Tree toad : HYLA
24
Suffix for conform or violin : IST
25
In the path of a glacier : STOSS
26
Whetstone user : HONER
27
Bowles and Arthur : CHESTERS
29
Some Louvre paintings : MANETS
30
Testing ground in 1903 : KITTYHAWK
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Gertrude and family : STEINS
35
Pete Seeger specialty : FOLKSONG
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Nobleman : COUNT
40
Sulks : POUTS
41
Dining or club : CAR
42
Early industrialist : OLDS
43
Fauna's partner : FLORA
44
"___ extra cost" : ATNO
45
Ear: Prefix : OTO
46
Sophisticated : COUTH
47
Places for mail : SLOTS
48
Do, as a task : PERFORM
50
Resort near Nice : ANTIBES
52
Table item : CATSUP
53
Impulse transmitters : NERVES
54
Leveling strips : SHIMS
55
Nurse, at times : DOSER
Down
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U.S.-Russian status : DETENTE
2
Disorderly : ROWDY
3
Dies ___ : IRAE
4
Diamond girl : LIL
5
Cleveland or Duluth, e.g. : LAKEPORT
6
ANTA members : ACTORS
7
Commando specialties : RAIDS
8
Sea bird : ERNE
9
Round: Abbr. : CIR
10
Pain reliever : ANODYNE
11
Somewhat wan : PALISH
13
Singer Robert : GOULET
14
Municipal : CIVIC
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"Our ___ do make us traitors" : FEARS
19
Move warily : PUSSYFOOT
22
Printers' directions : STETS
23
Goose sounds : HONKS
25
Assigned duty : STINT
26
Peddles : HAWKS
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Fleeces : SKINS
29
Sicily's neighbor : MALTA
31
Clock part : HOURHAND
32
Ice-cream unit : SCOOP
33
Early Mexican : TOLTEC
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Miss Welty et al. : EUDORAS
36
Ale time : OCTOBER
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City on the Loire : NANTES
38
Without deductions : GROSS
40
Freshens the pillow : PLUMPS
43
Tribunal : FORUM
44
"Look ___!" : ALIVE
46
Thus, in Italy : COSI
47
Violins and viols: Abhr. : STRS
49
Six feet: Abbr. : FTH
51
Prefix with plasm or classic : NEO

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

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