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Dorothy Elliott
Dorothy Elliott

New York Times, Thursday, May 7, 1992

47-Across : Type of N.E. colonial dwelling

Author:
Dorothy Elliott
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 319 (avg 1.67)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Dorothy Elliott has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,521
Across
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Filter : SIFT
5
Envelop : WRAP
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Razor sharpener : STROP
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Wife of Hi in comics : LOIS
15
Copter : HELO
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Yours, poetically : THINE
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Concerning : INRE
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Mountain goat : IBEX
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Altercation : RUNIN
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Never, in Nürnberg : NIE
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Complacent : SMUG
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Peary's polar companion : HENSON
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Informal chatter : GABFEST
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Muffles : DEADENS
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Lighthearted : AIRY
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Thicket : BRAKE
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Grammy-winning conductor : SOLTI
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Ark : BOAT
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Sgt. Preston's org. : RCMP
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Stunning surprise : BOLTFROMTHEBLUE
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Ferrer or Feliciano : JOSE
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Planets : ORBS
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Blue dyes : WOADS
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V.P. under Coolidge : DAWES
43
Seaweed : KELP
44
Certain traffic signal : FLASHER
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Type of N.E. colonial dwelling : SALTBOX
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Laban's younger daughter : RACHEL
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Ringlet : CURL
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"And when I ___ my lips ... " : Shak. : OPE
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Different : OTHER
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Adamson pet : ELSA
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Primary : MAIN
56
Kind of arch : SKEEN
57
Decree : FIAT
58
Late New Yorker cartoonist : ARNO
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Decorator's sine qua non : TASTE
60
Pitch : TONE
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Pleasant place : EDEN
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First-aid contrivance : SLING
2
City in Mich. : IONIA
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Shooting stars : FIREBALLS
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Half a fly : TSE
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Caprice : WHIMSY
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Disprove : REBUT
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Shake ___ (hurry up) : ALEG
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Disease of sweet potatoes : POX
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Dash : STREAK
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Something sudden and startling : THUNDERBOLT
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Wash out : RINSE
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Lily's relative : ONION
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Keystone State founder and family : PENNS
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Embellishing letter stroke : SERIF
22
Poverty grass : HEATH
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Hope-chest item : FITTEDSHEET
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Mild oaths : DRATS
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Fizzles, big time : BOMBS
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A grammarian's mood : SBJ
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Tic-tac-toe win, maybe : OOO
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Shipworm : BORER
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Slate used to ID film shots : CLAPBOARD
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Wrestling milieu, sometimes : MUD
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Foot, to Fabius : PES
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Part of a spur : ROWEL
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Pitcher Blackwell : EWELL
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Brian ___ of filmdom : AHERNE
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Training offered in a dojo : KARATE
44
Chill : FROST
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"Taxi" mechanic : LATKA
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Cravings : ACHES
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Actress St. James : SUSAN
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Suppose : OPINE
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Inert gas : XENON
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Emmy's commercial cousin : CLIO
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Newt : EFT
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West of Hollywood : MAE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 6 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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