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Martha J. DeWitt
Martha J. DeWitt

New York Times, Monday, April 12, 1976

40-Across : Banjo ridges

Author:
Martha J. DeWitt
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { G J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
Martha J. DeWitt has 72 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,739
Across
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Gnat, for one : PEST
5
Chain's companion : BALL
9
Cupid : AMOR
13
Musical group : OCTET
15
Solo : ARIA
16
What Lady Godiva did : RODE
17
Melancholy, to poets : DREAR
18
High-shelf adjunct : STEPSTOOL
20
Conjectures : SUPPOSES
22
Wine : SHERRY
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Gangsters' girls : MOLLS
24
High or Seven : SEAS
25
Blow a flute : TOOTLE
27
Loathed : DESPISED
31
Shed : HUT
32
Rig : SETUP
34
Gastronome : EATER
35
Anglo-Saxon letters : ETHS
37
By word of mouth : PAROL
39
Lucius Ahenobarbus : NERO
40
Banjo ridges : FRETS
42
Brought into harmony : KEYED
44
Kind of squeak : PIP
45
Contour-farm features : TERRACES
47
___ around (loafs) : MESSES
49
Czarist name : IVAN
50
Where Rangoon is : BURMA
51
Spoil : PAMPER
54
Conjectured : SURMISED
57
Resigns : STEPSDOWN
59
Pretext : ALIBI
60
"Pompeii" character : IONE
61
Arthurian lady : ENID
62
Spoofed : LEDON
63
Potato : SPUD
64
Hoover and Roosevelt : DAMS
65
Dispatched : SENT
Down
1
Schools of whales : PODS
2
Yellowish : ECRU
3
Snow White's rival : STEPMOTHER
4
Scandalous Dome : TEAPOT
5
Touch all ___ : BASES
6
Crafts : ARTS
7
Equivocate : LIE
8
Slips : LAPSES
9
Kind of well : ARTESIAN
10
Wasteland : MOOR
11
Redolence : ODOR
12
Lean on : RELY
14
Folklore people : TROLLS
19
"___ up or ship out" : SHAPE
21
Nap : SLEEP
24
Indian soldier : SEPOY
25
Embezzlement : THEFT
26
Bizarre : OUTRE
27
Lasts: old style : DURES
28
Yields : STEPSASIDE
29
Bizarre : EERIE
30
Discards : DROPS
33
___ in (cheated) : TAKEN
36
Did a burlesque routine : STRIPPED
38
Tree animal : LEMUR
41
Keeps : SAVES
43
Of skin : DERMAL
46
Worked with wool : CARDED
48
Shows warmth : SMILES
50
Confederations : BUNDS
51
Greek letters : PSIS
52
Spin like ___ : ATOP
53
Carte : MENU
54
Sink's alternative : SWIM
55
Pacific atoll : EBON
56
Force : DINT
58
Tierra del Fuego Indian : ONA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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