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Dorothy Smitonick
Dorothy Smitonick

New York Times, Thursday, March 3, 1983

32-Across : Anglers' flies

Author:
Dorothy Smitonick
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { Q }, Scrabble score: 299 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, 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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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,168
Across
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Get-up-and-go : ZIP
4
Apian gathering : SWARM
9
Org. once headed by H. Hopkins : WPA
12
Dutch city or specialty : EDAM
14
Where a shrew was tamed : PADUA
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Nickname for a Russell : ROZ
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___ breve : ALLA
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"As You Like It" forest : ARDEN
18
Cafe card : MENU
19
"Exodus" author : LEONURIS
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Small tree of the elm family : PLANER
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Units of weight in Cyprus : OKES
24
Horse or color : ROAN
25
Grew impatient : CHAFED
28
Solon : LAWMAKER
32
Anglers' flies : HERLS
33
Zeus, to Cato : JOVE
34
Gaucho's weapon : BOLA
35
Allies' goal in 1945 : ELBE
36
Sebastian Coe, e.g. : MILER
37
Clumsy ones : OAFS
38
"Thanks ___!" : ALOT
39
King of clubs : ALAN
40
Spring springer : TULIP
41
Warning signs : PORTENTS
43
Pre-Jets team : TITANS
44
Returnees from Reno : EXES
45
Absorbed : RAPT
46
Ancient capital of Laconia : SPARTA
49
Break up : DISSOLVE
53
Lixivia : LYES
54
"___ Bulba" : TARAS
56
"American Gothic" painter : WOOD
57
An element, in Ecuador : ORO
58
Cheer : ELATE
59
Short letter : NOTE
60
Won ___ soup : TON
61
Purple : REGAL
62
Novelist Kesey : KEN
Down
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Passion : ZEAL
2
Kind of rumor : IDLE
3
___ Alto : PALO
4
Exercised clemency : SPARED
5
"___ hell": Sherman : WARIS
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Tots : ADDS
7
Old medicinal plant : RUE
8
Fischer's strength? : MANPOWER
9
Songbird : WREN
10
Player at dealer's right : PONE
11
Côte d'___ : AZUR
13
Postal worker? : MANOFLETTERS
18
Jogger or cabbie? : MANABOUTTOWN
20
Things with strings : UKES
22
O.T. book : LAM
24
Black croaker : RAVEN
25
Mean : CHEAP
26
Telephone response : HELLO
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April's ___ Day : ARBOR
28
Falana and Montez : LOLAS
29
Animate "teddy bear" : KOALA
30
Mischievous : ELFIN
31
Grates : RASPS
33
Douses a flame, in a way : JILTS
36
Shark that may do in a gamboler : MANEATER
40
Gratuities : TIPS
42
Ell on a bldg. : EXT
43
Corn Belt sight : TASSEL
45
Cowboy's rope : RIATA
46
Proper place : SLOT
47
Prefix with technics : PYRO
48
Time out of mind : AEON
49
Large coach : DRAG
50
Search : LOOK
51
Politician's quest : VOTE
52
Utopian spot : EDEN
55
Malty drink : ALE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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