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Ruth N. Schultz
Ruth N. Schultz

New York Times, Thursday, April 10, 1980

13-Across : Balkan ridged area

Author:
Ruth N. Schultz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 43, Avg Word Len: 4.67, Missing: { J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 52, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Ruth N. Schultz has 21 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,111
Across
1
Eight: Prefix : OCTA
5
Coleridge's "sacred river" : ALPH
9
Mischievous child : ELF
12
Weak; slight : FRAIL
13
Balkan ridged area : BILO
14
Understand : SEE
15
Triple Crown winner: 1977 : SEATTLESLEW
17
Beach acquisition : TAN
18
Shepherd boy of rhyme : LITTLEBOYBLUE
20
Yoko : ONO
21
Equal, in Lille : EGAL
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Ancient monk : ESSENE
25
Raison d'___ : ETRE
27
Ballade's final stanza : ENVOI
29
"You said it!" : AMEN
30
"Auld Lang ___" : SYNE
32
It was, to Ovid : ERAT
34
Red or Dead : SEA
35
Henry VIII's ailment : GOUT
38
Turn over ___ leaf : ANEW
40
Neighbor of Miss. : ALA
43
Stocking-run cause : SNAG
45
"Red Roses for a Blue ___" : LADY
48
Bow : BEND
50
Jewish feast : PURIM
53
Relative of okeh : YEAH
55
Saint's home in Umbria : ASSISI
57
Common abbr. : ETAL
59
Ohm's antithesis : MHO
60
Milne opus : WINNIETHEPOOH
63
Letter after wye : ZEE
65
"Tippecanoe ___" : ANDTYLERTOO
66
Poetic word : OER
67
Edson Arantes do Nascimento : PELE
68
Iroquoians : ERIES
69
City RR's : ELS
70
German river : EDER
71
Cereal grasses : RYES
Down
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Bryan's forte : ORATORY
2
Carrie Chapman ___ : CATT
3
Baron, e.g. : TITLE
4
State as an excuse : ALLEGE
5
Pardon : ABSOLVE
6
TV's Tomlin : LILY
7
Common : PLEBEIAN
8
Lupine cries : HOWLS
9
Thinks highly of : ESTEEMS
10
Meadow : LEA
11
Marsh : FEN
12
Tricks an opposing boxer : FEINTS
15
Plum type : SLOE
16
Abba : EBAN
19
Neighbor of Can. : USA
23
Maiden-name word : NEE
24
Alfonso's queen : ENA
26
Chang's twin : ENG
28
A feast ___ famine : ORA
31
Dawn goddess : EOS
33
Far: Prefix : TEL
36
Free flowing, as hair : UNPINNED
37
Sigma follower : TAU
39
What John O'Hara's horse knows : WAY
40
Arab cloak : ABA
41
"___ Misérables" : LES
42
Replies : ANSWERS
44
Person with a mat : GREETER
46
Takes down a peg : DEMOTES
47
Gulliver discovered them : YAHOOS
49
Twice CCLI : DII
51
___-bitty : ITTY
52
Composer of 10 symphonies : MAHLER
54
Sounds of merriment : HOHO
56
Taper a timber : SNAPE
58
Suspicious : LEERY
61
Not working : IDLE
62
___-dieu : PRIE
63
Caldwell or Akins : ZOE
64
Moray : EEL

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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