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Whitten
Whitten

New York Times, Wednesday, November 23, 1983

46-Across : Found

Author:
Whitten
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Whitten has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,433
Across
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"Take Her, ___ Mine," 1961 play : SHES
5
Cartoonist Hulme : ETTA
9
By ___ (from memory) : HEART
14
Become weary : TIRE
15
Close : NEAR
16
Strange : EERIE
17
Picnic game : EGGANDSPOONRACE
20
One who fears: Suffix : PHOBE
21
Punctuation mark : SEMICOLON
22
Doctrine : ISM
24
Saloon offering : ALE
25
Hit hard : PASTE
27
Noshed : ATE
28
___ down (exhausted) : WORE
32
Bundle : PARCEL
33
Space-age alloy : ZIRCALOY
35
Soothsayer : AUGUR
36
French nobleman : DUC
37
Suffix with opinion : ATIVE
38
Monastery : CLOISTER
40
Allen and Lawrence : STEVES
41
Orient : EAST
42
Farewell! : AVE
43
Homesteaders' boon: 1862 : ACRES
44
To and ___ : FRO
45
Weir : DAM
46
Found : INSTITUTE
52
Imparts : LENDS
56
Nathaniel's protest: 1676 : BACONSREBELLION
58
Representation : IMAGE
59
School on the Thames : ETON
60
Soup ingredient : OKRA
61
Exclude : DEBAR
62
Lairs : DENS
63
A tide : NEAP
Down
1
Chassé : STEP
2
Lofty : HIGH
3
"Tantum ___," hymn section : ERGO
4
Hardtack : SEABISCUIT
5
Terminate : END
6
Hardy girl : TESS
7
Record of a sort : TAPE
8
Fragrant : AROMATIC
9
Therefore : HENCE
10
Architect Saarinen : EERO
11
Inland sea in Russia : ARAL
12
Carty of baseball : RICO
13
Adolescent : TEEN
18
Fledglings : NESTERS
19
OPEC vessel : OILER
23
Tormé or Ferrer : MEL
25
Actress Prentiss : PAULA
26
Peloponnesian city : ARGOS
27
Sky blue : AZURE
28
Seedy fruit : WATERMELON
29
Word with drab or branch : OLIVE
30
Wanders : ROVES
31
"Hungry ___," Twitty hit : EYES
32
Unit of length : PACE
34
Angry bleacherite's sound : CATCALL
36
Absorbed completely : DEVOURED
39
Dessert items : TARTS
40
Gloomy : SAD
44
More elegant : FINER
46
Footnote abbr. : IBID
47
Title : NAME
48
Strikebreaker : SCAB
49
Robe of office : TOGA
50
Author ___-Michel Kpomassie : TETE
51
Black : EBON
53
Goddess of victory : NIKE
54
Copperfield's child-wife : DORA
55
Break : SNAP
57
U.S.N.A. product : ENS

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

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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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