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Dorothy Cannan
New York Times, Thursday, November 27, 1975
4-Across : Soup
Author:
Dorothy Cannan
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Grid is asymmetric.
Dorothy Cannan has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 L | 2 A | 3 G | 4 P | 5 U | 6 R | 7 E | 8 E | 9 P | 10 R | 11 O | 12 S | 13 E |
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14 A | L | A | 15 A | N | E | A | R | 16 E | E | R | I | E |
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17 P | I | L | 18 G | R | I | M | S | E | 19 T | T | L | E | R | S |
20 S | T | A | R | T | O | U | T | 21 U | T | I | L | E | ||
22 E | A | N | S | 23 B | R | I | E | |||||||
24 P | 25 E | A | K | S | 26 T | A | K | E | F | 27 I | 28 V | 29 E |
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30 T | A | S | S | E | 31 S | O | R | E | R | 32 N | E | Y |
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33 E | R | S | E | 34 C | A | D | G | Y | 35 P | U | R | E |
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36 A | S | E | 37 E | L | U | D | E | 38 S | O | R | B | S |
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39 S | E | N | 40 I | L | I | T | Y | 41 A | T | L | E | S | ||
42 N | E | N | E | 43 A | S | E | A | |||||||
44 S | 45 W | A | M | I | 46 U | S | H | E | R | 47 I | 48 N | 49 G |
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50 A | M | E | R | I | C | 51 A | N | H | O | L | I | D | A | Y |
52 G | U | R | U | 53 A | L | T | E | R | 54 T | E | R | M |
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55 S | T | E | T | 56 L | E | O | N | E | 57 Y | A | K | S |
© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,602
Across
1
Jet ___ : LAG
4
Soup : PUREE
9
Purple or measured : PROSE
14
State: Abbr. : ALA
15
Close, to poets : ANEAR
16
Weird : EERIE
17
Famous diners : PILGRIMSETTLERS
20
Begin : STARTOUT
21
Practical : UTILE
22
Lambs : EANS
23
Soft cheese : BRIE
24
Alps : PEAKS
26
Have a breather : TAKEFIVE
30
French cup : TASSE
31
More peeved : SORER
32
French marshal : NEY
33
Gaelic : ERSE
34
Cheerful, in Scotland : CADGY
35
Chaste : PURE
36
Ibsen character : ASE
37
Give the slip to : ELUDE
38
European apples : SORBS
39
Old age : SENILITY
41
Salt trees : ATLES
42
Goose of Hawaii : NENE
43
Baffled : ASEA
44
Hindu pundit : SWAMI
46
Theater job : USHERING
50
Thanksgiving, for one : AMERICANHOLIDAY
52
Relative of 44 Across : GURU
53
Modify : ALTER
54
School period : TERM
55
Word on a proof : STET
56
Sierra ___ : LEONE
57
Tibetan animals : YAKS
Down
1
Circuits : LAPS
2
Landed : ALIT
3
Festival : GALA
4
Share : PARTAKE
5
Western and labor : UNIONS
6
Uncle of fiction : REMUS
7
Direction : EAST
8
Prior to : ERE
9
More nitpicky : PETTIER
10
Kind of sigh often breathed : RELIEF
11
Russian city : OREL
12
Progenitor : SIRE
13
Letters : EES
18
Kind of monkey : GREASE
19
Traditional bird : TURKEY
23
Harbor vessel : BARGE
24
Analyze : PARSE
25
German city : ESSEN
26
Holiday drink : TODDY
27
Harden : INURE
28
Sentence parts : VERBS
29
Watches : EYES
30
Cha and bohea : TEAS
31
Fry : SAUTE
34
Coldly analytic : CLINICAL
35
Quality of opposing powers : POLARITY
37
Fragrant resin : ELEMI
38
Shade of gray : STEEL
40
Getting nowhere : INARUT
41
Beached : ASHORE
43
Pale : ASHEN
44
Plant disease : SMUT
45
Common verb : WERE
46
"Do ___ others ... " : UNTO
47
Whim : IDEA
48
British informer : NARK
49
Sports places : GYMS
50
Legal officials: Abbr. : AGS
51
Stout's relative : ALE
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.