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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Thursday, December 8, 1977

14-Across : Action center

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Missing: { J Q U V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Dorothea E. Shipp has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,344
Across
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Use Howe's machine : SEW
4
Bind, as a sprain : STRAP
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Once, once : ERST
13
Air: Comb. form : ATMO
14
Action center : ARENA
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Tardy : LATE
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Café ___ (black coffee) : NOIR
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Katmandu's kingdom : NEPAL
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Jewish month : ADAR
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Strive to meet a deadline : WORKAGAINSTTIME
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Antarctic cape : ADARE
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Genes acid : DNA
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Cleans a pipe : REAMS
25
Part of a turbine : ROTOR
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Estonia, to Estonians : EESTI
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Sri Lanka export : TEA
29
Prefix with classic or Latin : NEO
30
Fort ___, in California : ORD
31
Surmise : INFER
33
Periodical, for short : MAG
35
Welcoming flowers : LEI
36
Out of date : PASSE
38
Bridle part : BIT
40
Part of the P.O. network : RLO
43
Socko! : BAM
44
Coupe's cousin : SEDAN
46
Calchas and Mopsus : SEERS
48
Shaped unevenly : EROSE
50
Emulate De Niro : ACT
51
Like Ida or Sue : SWEET
52
Toils or moils : WORKSLIKEAHORSE
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Inter ___ (among other things) : ALIA
56
Better : AMEND
57
Holy Communion, e.g. : RITE
58
Musical pause : REST
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U.S. artist and telegraphy pioneer : MORSE
60
Ship, synecdochically : KEEL
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Noble name of Ferrara : ESTE
62
French handles : ANSES
63
Graduating class: Abbr. : SRS
Down
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___ ceremony (demanded formality) : STOODON
2
Arabian commander's jurisdiction : EMIRATE
3
Ateliers : WORKROOMS
4
Warbled : SANG
5
Person on a vintner's payroll : TREADER
6
Complained : REPINED
7
Pineapple : ANANAS
8
Chums : PALS
9
Gladden the heart : ELATE
10
Diffuse : RADIATE
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Speech defect : STAMMER
12
Singer Brewer : TERESA
13
Sadat : ANWAR
20
See 13 Across : AER
21
Threefold : TRINE
27
Joust : TILT
30
Molding : OGEE
32
Pyrotechnist's products : FIREWORKS
34
Jennies : ASSES
36
Releases conditionally : PAROLES
37
Casanova : AMORIST
38
Angels on Broadway : BACKERS
39
Vehement : INTENSE
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Less trustful : LEERIER
42
Tragedy by Euripides : ORESTES
43
"Take care!" : BEWARE
45
Indwelling power or spirit : DAIMON
46
Quiet! : SSH
47
Type of band or wool : STEEL
49
Relative of a batfish : SKATE
53
User of a prayer wheel : LAMA
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Hot-day quaffs : ADES

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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