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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Friday, May 29, 1981

1-Across : Quashed, in law

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.89, Missing: { F J K Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, 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.
David Steinberg notes:

In 69-Across clue, "Qumram" should probably be "Qumran"; left as in the original.

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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,525
Across
1
Quashed, in law : ABATED
7
Harmonizes : ATTUNES
14
Hallucinate : IMAGINE
15
Harmful; malodorous : NOISOME
16
This may bring down the house : TORNADO
17
Joseph Conrad work : TYPHOON
18
Glyceride : ESTER
19
John and Jane : DOES
21
Durango demonstrative : ESTA
22
Area such as Chile's nitrate fields : SALAR
24
Hail : GREET
25
Auditor, for short : CPA
28
Shopping center : ARCADE
31
Pertaining to milk : LACTIC
34
Princess Grace, for one : MONACAN
39
The eldest Titan : OCEANUS
41
Lay the groundwork : PREPARE
42
Land or realm : TERRENE
43
Yorick was his pen name : STERNE
44
Jipijapa : PANAMA
47
Occupied the van : LED
48
"Meet it is I ___ down": Hamlet : SETIT
52
Lowest point : NADIR
55
Gulf of ___ : ADEN
56
Elbe feeder : ISER
58
More agreeable : NICER
62
This causes Ferdinand to meet Miranda : TEMPEST
64
Kind of cellar : CYCLONE
66
Dosage container : AMPULLA
67
William A. Nolen topic : HEALING
68
Not so dowdy : NATTIER
69
Former Qumram denizen : ESSENE
Down
1
Disney's inventive mouse : AMOS
2
Starr of football : BART
3
Actress Moorehead : AGNES
4
Royal wedding wear : TIARA
5
Consequence : END
6
East Indian cedar : DEODAR
7
Pay to play, in a way : ANTE
8
Items in the Hellman attic : TOYS
9
Cue part : TIP
10
Peck's preacting job : USHER
11
Gibbet's adjunct : NOOSE
12
Do some tub-thumping : EMOTE
13
Body found in Paris : SENAT
14
Suffix with vulcan or cord : ITE
20
Grampus : ORC
23
Gap : LACUNA
24
Relative of a civet : GENET
25
Coagulate : CLOT
26
Measure on foot : PACE
27
Maple genus : ACER
29
Meter reading, for short : AMP
30
Toward the back : DORSAD
32
Paving : TAR
33
Clumsy : INEPT
35
Barbary beast : APE
36
Scientist Sagan : CARL
37
"Rosamund" composer : ARNE
38
Indigence : NEED
40
Japanese currency : SEN
45
Dordogne donkey : ANE
46
Bon ___, Gallic bargain : MARCHE
48
Apollyon : SATAN
49
Watery swelling : EDEMA
50
Beguile : TEMPT
51
Computer's necessity : INPUT
53
Atahualpa's people : INCAS
54
Valley for Selene : RILLE
56
Homophone for part of a church : ISLE
57
"Bright" inspiration for Keats : STAR
59
Sovereign, e.g. : COIN
60
Nine: Prefix : ENNE
61
Part of a div. : REG
63
Name meaning "the highest" : ELI
65
Truckler's response : YES

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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