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Dorothy Smitonick
Dorothy Smitonick

New York Times, Tuesday, December 29, 1987

30-Across : Tower builder

Author:
Dorothy Smitonick
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Dorothy Smitonick has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,930
Across
1
Portico : STOA
5
Defeat : BEST
9
Skillful : DEFT
13
Mets or Jets : TEAM
14
Tooth: Comb. form : DENTO
15
Needle case : ETUI
16
Actress Lanchester : ELSA
17
Fund : ENDOW
18
Scotland ___ : YARD
19
Has a drink : WETSONESWHISTLE
22
___ Lanka : SRI
23
Dry, as wine : SEC
24
Some coll. linemen : RGS
27
U.S.S.R.'s Sea of ___ : AZOV
30
Tower builder : EIFFEL
35
Within: Comb. form : ENTO
37
Emerald Isle : ERIN
39
Marketplace : AGORA
40
Crow or boast : TOOTONESOWNHORN
43
Vacant : EMPTY
44
Lid adjunct : LASH
45
Thought : IDEA
46
___ up (bungles) : MESSES
48
___ over (reenlist) : SHIP
50
Coll. org. in the 60's : SDS
51
Ethiopian prince : RAS
53
Units in the yr. : MOS
55
Pushes one's products : DRUMSUPBUSINESS
64
List of duties : ROTA
65
Be a pest : TEASE
66
Jot : ATOM
67
Dec. 24 and 31 : EVES
68
Savor : ENJOY
69
New York's state flower : ROSE
70
Author Rebecca ___ : WEST
71
Deps. : STAS
72
Perceive as fact : KNOW
Down
1
Seethe : STEW
2
Part of TV : TELE
3
Kiln : OAST
4
Collect : AMASS
5
Part of N.B. : BENE
6
At loose ___ : ENDS
7
Packs : STOWS
8
North American sparrow : TOWHEE
9
Former Algerian V.I.P.'s : DEYS
10
Coup d'___ : ETAT
11
Roll up : FURL
12
Flood or spring : TIDE
14
Dweller : DENIZEN
20
A feast ___ famine : ORA
21
Suffix with tact : ICIAN
24
Desert shrub : RETEM
25
Dwarf : GNOME
26
Discontinues : STOPS
28
Russian city : OREL
29
Passes : VISAS
31
E-J connection : FGHI
32
Some are frozen : FOODS
33
Was wrong : ERRED
34
Turner and Cantrell : LANAS
36
Mel and Ed of baseball : OTTS
38
Munch on : NOSH
41
Legal copies : OYERS
42
Fanciful notion : WHIMSEY
47
Fries quickly : SAUTES
49
Hawaiian dish : POI
52
Exhausted : SPENT
54
"The Hunting of the ___": Carroll : SNARK
55
Barrymore or Pearson : DREW
56
Wander : ROVE
57
Salt Lake City team : UTES
58
Topgallant : MAST
59
___ California : BAJA
60
Service centers for G.I.'s : USOS
61
Town near London : ETON
62
Middling : SOSO
63
European duck : SMEW

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 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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