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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Saturday, March 7, 1981

53-Across : Comedian's delight

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 43, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J K Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 251 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, 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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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,442
Across
1
Prefix with chapel : ANTE
5
Nativity-play accessory : HALO
9
Become more friendly : THAW
13
Opposite of bust : BOOM
14
Overleaps : OMITS
16
Unit of loudness : SONE
17
First of nine in "Strange Interlude" : ACTI
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Skewbald's relative : PINTO
19
Dane who composed the opera "Lamia" : ENNA
20
Actor's supreme delight : STANDINGOVATION
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Awl, for one : HOLER
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Quartet in "No, No, Nanette" : ENS
25
Doe or Roe : NAME
28
Goddess of the moon : ARTEMIS
32
Pen pals' go-betweens : POSTMEN
35
Welcoming garland : LEI
36
Simple sugar : OSE
37
Land unit : LOT
38
Belli or Bailey: Abbr. : ATT
39
Cue part : TIP
40
"The Foggy, Foggy ___" : DEW
41
"___ Clear Day" : ONA
42
Prefix with foil or pan : TRE
43
What some losers suffer : AGONIES
45
Man on a certain path : WARRIOR
47
___-Aryan : INDO
48
Force for followers of a John Paul: Abbr. : USN
49
What Horace called "a short madness" : ANGER
53
Comedian's delight : BURSTOFAPPLAUSE
60
" ... ___ for my steps": Psalm 57 : ANET
61
Molière's Harpagon, for one : MISER
62
Essence : GIST
63
Catchall words : ETAL
64
Winter period in Barcelona : ENERO
65
Baltic feeder : ODER
66
Took part in the Grand National : RODE
67
Ibn-___ : SAUD
68
Noted Danish novelist: 1869-1954 : NEXO
Down
1
Confuse : ABASH
2
Night: Comb. form : NOCTO
3
Destroy, as a car : TOTAL
4
Outstanding : EMINENT
5
Shoshonean Arizonan : HOPI
6
Cole Porter's "I ___ Love" : AMIN
7
Heather : LING
8
Conductor Klemperer : OTTO
9
Disease-carrying insect : TSETSE
10
"___ soit qui ... " : HONI
11
___ Domini : ANNO
12
Break of a habit : WEAN
15
Former British coin : SOVEREIGN
21
Wycherley was one : DRAMATIST
22
Opposed : ANTIPODAL
26
Tapper for a tyro at the piano : METRONOME
27
Script order : ENTER
28
Range topped by Belukha : ALTAI
29
___ operandi : MODI
30
Words of the enlightened : ISEE
31
Machines seams : SEWS
32
Stag gang, e.g. : PLOW
33
Chaplin's widow : OONA
34
Mira or Rigel : STAR
44
Many-sided figure : NONAGON
46
Make susurrous sounds : RUSTLE
50
Cicerone : GUIDE
51
Character in "Elizabeth the Queen" : ESSEX
52
Small rocket, for short : RETRO
53
Heavyweight champion: 1934-35 : BAER
54
"Not ___ us the praise ... ": Kipling : UNTO
55
Make use of a library : READ
56
Flippers : FINS
57
Cruising : ASEA
58
Tacna's country : PERU
59
Urge : PROD

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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