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Betty Leary
Betty Leary

SOME OF THE PEOPLE

New York Times, Sunday, November 11, 1973

20-Across : Pretexts

Author:
Betty Leary
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 85, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { X Z }, Scrabble score: 531 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 98, Cheaters: 18, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 20
Betty Leary has 7 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1973, The New York TimesNo. 8,856
Across
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Barge owner, for short : CLEO
5
Lazy one : SUSAN
10
Doe et al. : JANES
15
More livid : ASHIER
17
Forage grass : SETARIA
19
Road accident : PILEUP
20
Pretexts : STALLS
21
Goodness! : HEAVENSTOBETSY
23
Contrary one : MARY
24
Music halls : ODEA
26
Women's Lib goal in Paris : EGALITE
27
I stand: Lat. : STO
28
Threshold : SILL
29
Iniquities : ILLS
31
Insect : ANT
32
Hitler's Kampf : MEIN
33
Word with "vive le" : ROI
34
Eye-pupil dilater : BELLADONNA
38
Gossips : CATS
39
Rec-room fixtures : TVSETS
41
Unexpressed : TACIT
42
Board man: Abbr. : CHM
43
Highway spots : MOTELS
45
Stunted ones : RUNTS
46
Secular, in Paris : LAIQUE
50
Brundage : AVERY
51
Town in Portugal : SERTA
52
Camera shots : CLOSEUPS
54
Balzac's Goriot : PERE
55
Victorian quality : NICENELLYISM
58
Aurora : EOS
59
Carplike fish: Var. : RUD
60
Norwegian king : OLAF
61
___ signum : ECCE
62
Valets : MEN
63
Beast : ASS
64
Milksops : MOLLYCODDLES
68
Poker word : ANTE
70
In the cards : DESTINED
72
French storm : ORAGE
73
Libyan measures : DRAHS
74
Resting : ATEASE
75
Embodiment : IMAGE
76
Kind of ring : SIGNET
77
Parts of qts. : PTS
78
Form of Alice : ALISA
79
Tot's weapon : POPGUN
81
Honest ones : ABES
83
Police special : BLACKMARIA
85
Shoe width : EEE
87
Rex or Walter : REED
88
Haw's partner : HEM
89
E. Indian plant : AMIL
90
Invitation initials : RSVP
92
Go amiss : ERR
93
Spanish ladies : SENORAS
97
Turtle genus : EMYS
99
Seine areas : ILES
100
Fireworks piece : CATHERINEWHEEL
103
Suddenly : ASTART
105
Child of Zeus : ATHENE
106
"___ over spilt ... " : DONTCRY
107
Sets up : ERECTS
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Lively : PEART
109
Noncoms : SSGTS
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Flower : ROSE
Down
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Dessert : CHARLOTTERUSSE
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Cowardly : LILYLIVERED
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Electric item : EEL
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Approximately : ORSO
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Miss nothing : SEEALL
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Miss Hagen : UTA
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Preserve : SAVE
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Desert regions : AREG
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Famous ship : NINA
10
Agree : JIBE
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Brew : ALE
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Tennis crowd, so to speak : NETSET
13
Florida city : EUSTIS
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Observe furtively : SPYON
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Missiles: Abbr. : ASMS
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Flight part : STAIR
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Henley entries : SHELLS
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Obliquely : ASLANT
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Paper size : POTT
22
Miss Louise : TINA
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Weighty action : DIET
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Roman god of agriculture : SATURN
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Ike's spouse : MAMIE
34
Egyptian god : BES
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Italian poet : DANTE
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Of the number eight : OCTAL
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Serbian city : NIS
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Ausable, for one : CHASM
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Roguish : SLY
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Ends : CLOSES
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Plan : MAP
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Unwelcome bonus for editors : OVERSET
45
Abounding in rocks : REEFY
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Common field plant : QUEENANNESLACE
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"I fall ___ thorns of life!" : UPONTHE
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Curve : ESS
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Cooking word : SCALD
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Series of changes : CYCLE
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Contemptible ones : LICE
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Not anybody's : NOONES
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Cicero's that : ILLE
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Mountain climber's haven : LEDGE
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Cookies : MARGUERITES
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Critic Huxtable : ADA
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Hazes : MISTS
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Droll : COMIC
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"Either do it alone ___ for help" : ORASK
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Vasco ___ : DAGAMA
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N. Y. time : EST
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Kind of TV show : TAPED
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Unearth : DIG
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Pier union: Abbr. : ILA
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Drinking place : SPA
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Chocolate-bar additive : ALMOND
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In a proper way : PRIMLY
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Like sardines : OILY
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Ventilate : AERATE
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Kind of collar : BERTHA
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Nigerian people : BENI
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Moslem princes : AMEERS
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Chris of tennis : EVERT
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Tire : RECAP
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"___ today ... " : HERE
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Attention-getting sounds : PSTS
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Enraptured : SENT
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Old cars : REOS
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Plant bristles : AWNS
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Deficiency: Abbr. : SHTG
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Early Irish tenant : SAER
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Pronoun : HER
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Outside: Prefix : ECT
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Sign of a crowd : SRO

Answer summary:
12 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 11 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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