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Bette Sue Cohen
Bette Sue Cohen

New York Times, Wednesday, May 13, 1987

55-Across : Swiss cheese

Author:
Bette Sue Cohen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Bette Sue Cohen has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 6 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,700
Across
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Corpsman : MEDIC
6
Post : MAIL
10
Bad actors : HAMS
14
Kind of coffee : IRISH
15
Director of "The Four Seasons" : ALDA
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Stalin biographer : ULAM
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College lounge : COMMONROOM
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What grooms groom : MANE
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Compass dir. : ESE
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Talk wildly : RANT
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A weasel : ERMINE
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Clock : TIME
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Opposed : ANTI
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Oscar winner in 1956 : MALONE
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Lobsters have them : ANTENNAE
33
"And sat beneath ___ tree ... ": I. Krylov : ALIME
34
Excavation : MINE
35
Judy Garland, née ___ : GUMM
36
Bang : SLAM
37
Aped : MIMED
38
Derby part : BRIM
39
Makarova award: 1983 : TONY
40
Holm oak : ILEX
41
Prospect : VISTA
42
Enveloped : SWADDLED
44
Harry and Hugh : CAREYS
45
"Against All ___," 1984 film : ODDS
46
Praise : LAUD
47
Fruitless : BARREN
50
Intention : GOAL
51
Period : ERA
54
Possible sky sightings : UFOS
55
Swiss cheese : EMMENTALER
58
Lansbury Broadway role : MAME
59
Bering and Caspian : SEAS
60
Irish patriot : EMMET
61
Victim : PREY
62
Without : SANS
63
Vacuum tube : DIODE
Down
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Victims of the farmer's wife : MICE
2
Psyche's beloved : EROS
3
Type of novel : DIME
4
Doctrine : ISM
5
Pony, perhaps : CHORINE
6
French river : MARNE
7
What "little things mean" : ALOT
8
Response to a J.P. : IDO
9
Deplored : LAMENTED
10
Swift's relative : HUMMINGBIRD
11
Turkish regiment : ALAI
12
Author of "The Magic Mountain" : MANN
13
A foe of Pan : SMEE
18
Designate : NAME
23
Map abbr. : RTE
24
Sinatra's boss after James : TOMMYDORSEY
25
Wing : ANNEX
26
Spars : MASTS
27
Let : ALLOW
28
Tropical vine : LIANA
29
Pointed : AIMED
30
Hayes's role in "A Farewell to Arms" : NURSE
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Friendship : AMITY
32
Lady Hamilton et al. : EMMAS
34
Trumpeter Davis : MILES
37
" ... ethereal ___, come": Thomson : MILDNESS
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Leapt : VAULTED
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Pres. before J.F.K. : DDE
44
"Comes a Horseman" costar : CAAN
46
Loamy deposit : LOESS
47
Thank-you-ma'am : BUMP
48
From a distance : AFAR
49
City sacked in 1527 : ROME
50
F.B.I. agent : GMAN
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Sailor's patron saint : ELMO
52
Movie critic Rex : REED
53
Subject of a Puccini aria : ARTE
56
"... give ___ torch!": D. H. Lawrence : MEA
57
Jacques's friend : AMI

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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