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Bette Sue Cohen
Bette Sue Cohen

New York Times, Tuesday, December 4, 1984

27-Across : Singer Crystal and family

Author:
Bette Sue Cohen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5 Grid has duplicate clues.
Bette Sue Cohen has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 6 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,810
Across
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Pretended : ACTED
6
Lollobrigida : GINA
10
Agave plant : PITA
14
Resort lake : TAHOE
15
Clumsy, stupid person : LOON
16
Holliman of "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" : EARL
17
Kind of setter : TREND
18
Sioux Indian : OTOE
19
Actor Jannings : EMIL
20
Evergreen tree : YEW
21
Film: 1980 : URBANCOWBOY
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Theater's first five rows : ABCDE
26
Stop, as a motor : DIE
27
Singer Crystal and family : GAYLES
29
Places for skeletons? : CLOSETS
33
Used oars : ROWED
34
Where Canea is : CRETE
35
Film: 1963 : HUD
37
Incensed : IRED
38
Title Macbeth earned : THANE
39
Doer anagram : REDO
40
Parts of qts. : PTS
41
Cheekiness : BRASS
42
Ethical : MORAL
43
Achieves : ATTAINS
45
Artistry : TALENT
46
Letterhead abbr. : INC
47
Begot : SIRED
48
Film: 1980 : BRONCOBILLY
53
Author of "The Purloined Letter" : POE
56
A source of light : LAMP
57
Etnean material : LAVA
58
Circular bands : HOOPS
60
Arm bone : ULNA
61
Algerian port : ORAN
62
Karenina and Christie : ANNAS
63
Check : REIN
64
Fissure : RENT
65
Creator of Sherlock Holmes : DOYLE
Down
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Lawyer, briefly : ATTY
2
"Handle with ___" : CARE
3
Film: 1967 : THEWAYWEST
4
Eternity : EON
5
Construed : DEDUCED
6
Geography-lesson prop : GLOBE
7
Jot : IOTA
8
"High ___," 1952 film : NOON
9
Short narrative : ANECDOTE
10
Tiny person : PEEWEE
11
Metrical foot : IAMB
12
The Kingston ___ : TRIO
13
Associate : ALLY
22
Sts. : RDS
23
River into the Seine : OISE
25
Ran, as dye : BLED
27
Suitcase : GRIP
28
Artery : AORTA
29
Boorish : CRASS
30
Optician's product : LENS
31
Film: 1949 : THEREDPONY
32
Where Khartoum is : SUDAN
34
Sleuth created by Biggers : CHAN
36
Dunce : DOLT
38
France's national flag : TRICOLOR
39
Thespian's goal : ROLE
41
Judge's bench : BANC
42
"___ a little lamb" : MARYHAD
44
___ Alley : TINPAN
45
Sesame : TIL
47
Angle : SLANT
48
Sully : BLUR
49
Abnormal breathing sound : RALE
50
All: Comb. form : OMNI
51
Unclothed : BARE
52
Russian czar : IVAN
54
October birthstone : OPAL
55
Actual being : ESSE
59
Yoko ___ : ONO

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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