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Evelyn B. Rosenthal
Evelyn B. Rosenthal

New York Times, Friday, November 14, 1975

44-Across : Like back fences

Author:
Evelyn B. Rosenthal
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { B Q X }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 82, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 18
Evelyn B. Rosenthal has 9 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,589
Across
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Bambi, e.g. : DEARDEER
9
Member of an Indian caste : RAJPUT
15
Showy TV comedian : ARTYARTE
16
Zola et al. : EMILES
17
Run from an insect : FLEEFLEA
18
African republic : SOMALI
19
Fifty minutes past : TENOF
20
Ignoble bearing : MEANMIEN
22
Caustics : LYES
25
___ Marbles : ELGIN
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Graduate degree : PHD
28
Singer Frankie : LAINE
30
Hebrew bushel : EPHA
33
Heavenly Altar : ARA
34
Members of B.P.O.E. : ELKS
35
"Green Hat" author : ARLEN
36
Offering of some ship's canvas : FORESAILFORSALE
40
Perennial herb : AVENS
41
Congers : EELS
42
The ___ generation : NOW
43
Musical sign : REST
44
Like back fences : GATED
46
Asian holiday : TET
47
Writer Ben : HECHT
49
Mets or Jets, e.g. : TEAM
51
See the Eternal City : ROAMROME
54
Boston swindler : PONZI
58
Wing-footed: Lat. : ALIPES
59
1:58 : TWOTOTWO
62
Knave : VARLET
63
Genuine country-dance : REALREEL
64
Ancient chariots : ESSEDS
65
Weird lake : EERYERIE
Down
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Loco : DAFT
2
Gardner : ERLE
3
Solar disk : ATEN
4
___-fashioned (cocktail) : RYEOLD
5
Dizzy's brother : DAFFY
6
___ king (fictional elf) : ERL
7
After printemps : ETE
8
Paper unit : REAM
9
Used-car deal : RESALE
10
"___ My Souvenirs" : AMONG
11
Thieves who pry open windows : JIMMIERS
12
Ordinary carpenter's tool : PLAINPLANE
13
African river : UELE
14
Chinese dynasty: Var. : TSIN
21
Poetic contraction : EEN
23
Grasso or Fitzgerald : ELLA
24
H. H. Munro : SAKI
26
Substantiate : PROVE
27
Lapin : HARESHAIRS
29
Small body of land : ISLET
31
Spartan slave : HELOT
32
Over again : ANEW
33
Distant : AFAR
34
Curve : ESS
35
"___ gratia artis" : ARS
37
Set up in a shrine : ENTEMPLE
38
Toes, soles and insteps : FEET
39
Ye ___ shoppe : OLDE
44
Spirits : GHOSTS
45
Unit of pressure: Abbr. : ATM
46
Signature of an Irish poet : TMOORE
48
Nicene ___ : CREED
50
In an appropriate way : APTLY
51
Speak wildly : RAVE
52
Waves, in Spain : OLAS
53
Common French verb : ETRE
55
Region of Australia: Abbr. : NTER
56
Before drei : ZWEI
57
Hercules's captive : IOLE
60
Tiny : WEE
61
Paddle : OAR

Answer summary:
14 unique to this puzzle, 4 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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