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Betty Duffy
Betty Duffy

New York Times, Friday, November 11, 1977

23-Across : Tidings

Author:
Betty Duffy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { G J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 301 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Betty Duffy has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,317
Across
1
Horn or Cod : CAPE
5
Import from Ghana : COCOA
10
Russian wire service : TASS
14
Is indebted : OWES
15
Three different rivers in England : AVONS
16
Playbill heading : ACTI
17
Relative of "bite the dust" : TAKEITONTHECHIN
20
Hurricane center : EYE
21
"Agnus ___" : DEI
22
Geese, at times : HONKERS
23
Tidings : WORD
24
Ref. book : ENCY
25
Parts of peonies : PETALS
28
Another name for Athena : ALEA
29
Onager : ASS
32
Suffix with fabric and domestic : ATOR
33
So-so : PASSABLE
35
Tell it like it is : SHOOTFROMTHEHIP
39
Length of many a TV show : HALFHOUR
40
Taboo word : DONT
41
Suburb of Liège, Belgium : ANS
42
Polly, to Tom Sawyer : AUNT
43
Office workers : CLERKS
45
Land elevations: Abbr. : MTNS
46
Neighbor of Thailand : LAOS
47
Corpus ___ : DELICTI
50
Literary collection : ANA
51
Tic's follower : TAC
54
Improvidently : FROMHANDTOMOUTH
57
British princess : ANNE
58
" ... ___ wed" : ITHEE
59
Opposed : ANTI
60
Perceives : SEES
61
Some are proper : NOUNS
62
Harvest : REAP
Down
1
Pigeon shelter : COTE
2
Farthest from the pin : AWAY
3
Short pooch, for short : PEKE
4
Compass point : ESE
5
Supplies food : CATERS
6
Egglike : OVOID
7
Pro's opposite : CON
8
Fleeing the law : ONTHELAM
9
"___ as the day is long" : ASHONEST
10
Far from fashionable : TACKY
11
Aspirin seller : ACHE
12
Commotion : STIR
13
Confessor's earful : SINS
18
Baal, for one : IDOL
19
Convert to money, British style : ENCASH
23
H.G. Wells's "___ the Worlds" : WAROF
25
Turkish V.I.P. : PASHA
26
A memorable Allen : ETHAN
27
"Give us the ___": Churchill : TOOLS
28
To the left, on ship : APORT
29
Detest : ABHOR
30
Move stealthily : SLINK
31
Clans : SEPTS
34
Mosquito genus : AEDES
36
One of the oldest materials for roofs : THATCH
37
Trevi attraction : FOUNTAIN
38
Meets up with : RUNSINTO
43
Buckeye and birchbark : CANOES
44
Clayey soil : LOAM
45
Mummers like Marceau : MIMES
46
Cause to be tardy : LATEN
47
Advanced degrees for painters, sculptors, etc. : DFAS
48
Relative of a fish eagle : ERNE
49
Unescorted : LONE
51
Platter matter : TUNE
52
"___ boy!" : ATTA
53
One of Carter's sons : CHIP
55
"Lady of the Lake" outlaw : DHU
56
Item for a dinghy : OAR

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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