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Martha J. DeWitt
Martha J. DeWitt

New York Times, Monday, February 23, 1981

20-Across : Chides

Author:
Martha J. DeWitt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0 Grid has duplicate clues.
Martha J. DeWitt has 72 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,430
Across
1
Enjoying a holiday : OFF
4
Sipper : STRAW
9
Strong stimulus : PROD
13
Distance for Sebastian Coe : MILE
15
Transparent linen or cotton : TOILE
16
Erudition : LORE
17
Purim month : ADAR
18
Poppycock : APPLESAUCE
20
Chides : REPROVES
22
Ready for use : ONTAP
23
Hamlet, for one : DANE
24
Touchy : SORE
26
Tea cake : SCONE
28
Kind of card : SYMPATHY
32
Mud hen : COOT
33
Cheyenne's home : TEPEE
34
Flue deposit : SOOT
36
Antique : OLD
37
Aired an old TV show : RERAN
38
Billiards necessity : CUE
39
"___ for the brave": Cowper : TOLL
41
Hebrew measures : OMERS
42
Throw : HURL
43
Unnecessary : NEEDLESS
45
O. T. book : HOSEA
46
Sutter's find : GOLD
47
Sea bream : CARP
48
Decorous : STAID
51
Landing field : AIRDROME
55
Poppycock : MUMBOJUMBO
58
Old-time worker in a freight yard : ICER
59
Single : UNAL
60
Laotian or Cambodian : ASIAN
61
Boring : DULL
62
Fowler or Tunney : GENE
63
Mother, in Madrid : MADRE
64
Title for Thérèse: Abbr. : STE
Down
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Sharif : OMAR
2
Bona ___ : FIDE
3
Poppycock : FLAPDOODLE
4
Barrel part : STAVE
5
What barflies do : TOPE
6
Unseams : RIPS
7
Nothing's partner : ALL
8
Like Willie Keeler : WEE
9
Venus and Mars : PLANETS
10
Put to flight : ROUT
11
Sea movie of 1977 : ORCA
12
"Asleep in the ___" : DEEP
14
Wandering : ERRANT
19
Rail : SORA
21
Number of Harry Truman's children : ONE
24
Bad paintings : SMEARS
25
Starts, in bridge : OPENS
26
Warrior at Culloden Moor: 1746 : SCOT
27
Panamanian port : COLON
28
Appeared : SEEMED
29
Town called leper by the Flemish : YPRES
30
Poppycock : HOCUSPOCUS
31
Cohan's "___ a Grand Old Flag" : YOURE
33
Supernatural being, in folklore : TROLL
35
Tissue layer : TELA
40
Like Mr. Palmer's calligraphy : LEGIBLE
42
" ... she was bad she was ___": Longfellow : HORRID
44
Extinct bird : DODO
45
Possessed : HAD
47
Beldam : CRONE
48
Complacent : SMUG
49
Air : TUNE
50
"___ for All Seasons" : AMAN
51
In the center : AMID
52
RR track, for one : IBAR
53
Liquefy : MELT
54
Gardner : ERLE
56
Interfere with radio signals : JAM
57
Separator of Mex. and Can. : USA

Answer summary:
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