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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Saturday, November 27, 1976

22-Across : Précis

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Dorothea E. Shipp has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,968
Across
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Mary's hanger-on : LAMB
5
Horned creature: Suffix : CERA
9
Biblical prophet : AMOS
13
Sheltered : ALEE
14
Colander features : HOLES
15
Sly : FOXY
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Kind of bag or stalk : BEAN
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Praying figure : ORANT
18
Summers, in Nice : ETES
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Film of 1954 : ONTHEWATERFRONT
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Précis : RESUME
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Sponsorship : EGIS
24
Gad : ROVE
26
Train : EDUCATE
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Company, usually : TWO
34
Neighbor of Ark. : TENN
36
Overdo a steak : CHAR
37
What 19 and 57 Across and 4 Down were : WINNERSOFOSCARS
42
Common cliché : ISEE
43
Byproduct of an eruption : LAVA
44
Take a chance : BET
45
Menances : THREATS
49
Kinfolk: Abbr. : RELS
51
La ___ (L.A. tar-pit area) : BREA
53
Go on a pension : RETIRE
57
Film of 1965 : THESOUNDOFMUSIC
62
Kind of house or mark : HASH
63
Hebrew letter : TSADE
64
Updike novel : BECH
65
Bone: Prefix : OSTE
66
Returned, as a pigeon : HOMED
67
Vivacity : BRIO
68
Hurried : SPED
69
Upper-house action: Abbr. : SRES
70
Upper-house members: Abbr. : SENS
Down
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One of the days : LABOR
2
Coeur d'___ : ALENE
3
Sweet and nut : MEATS
4
Film of 1959 : BENHUR
5
Miss Baird : CORA
6
Give heart to : ELATE
7
Make a bridge error : RENEGE
8
Belgian queen : ASTRID
9
Southwest wind : AFER
10
Con ___ (spiritedly) : MOTO
11
Draft animals : OXEN
12
Part of C.B.S.: Abbr. : SYST
14
Word of reservation : HOWEVER
20
Act the ham : EMOTE
21
Tallahassee campus : FSU
25
Abstract being : ENS
27
New Deal org. : CCC
28
King of Israel : AHAB
29
Biblical weed : TARE
30
Formerly, once : ERST
31
Tease : TWIT
32
Kind of bone : WISH
33
K.O. blow : ONER
35
___ pros. : NOL
38
Word in a marriage notice : NEE
39
Certain cry : FAR
40
Sated : OVERFED
41
Western capital : SALEM
46
Australian native : ABO
47
Obvious facts : TRUTHS
48
Light-detecting device : SENSOR
50
British painter of horses : STUBBS
52
" ... nothing like ___" : ADAME
54
River of France : ISERE
55
Castor-bean product : RICIN
56
Nymph and namesakes : ECHOS
57
Part of Jefferson's sig. : THOS
58
Fastener : HASP
59
Italian family : ESTE
60
Lean-to : SHED
61
Poetic works : ODES

Answer summary:
2 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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