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Bette Sue Cohen
Bette Sue Cohen

New York Times, Monday, June 13, 1983

16-Across : Desi's daughter

Author:
Bette Sue Cohen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Bette Sue Cohen has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 6 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,270
Across
1
Glenn from Quebec : FORD
5
Fitzgerald specialty : SCAT
9
Participate at a bee : SPELL
14
Notable in "The Wizard of Oz" : LAHR
15
Ripped : TORE
16
Desi's daughter : LUCIE
17
Where Burma is : ASIA
18
King or Bates : ALAN
19
Illinois city : ALTON
20
Sound from a wind chime : TING
21
Site in a Fonda-Hepburn film : GOLDENPOND
23
Someone from Enid : SOONER
25
Tel. line : EXT
26
Head signal : NOD
27
Ascendancy : PRESTIGE
32
Explosion : BLAST
35
A star of "Come Back to the 5 & Dime ... " : CHER
36
Mata ___ : HARI
37
A Kennedy : ROSE
38
"I have become ___ name": Rukeyser : ALOST
39
Actor Richard : EGAN
40
To the sheltered side : ALEE
41
Bombast : RANT
42
Building material : ADOBE
43
Joyful : GLADSOME
45
Nautical dir. : NBE
46
"Limb of the devil" : IMP
47
One of four in an Alda title : SEASON
50
Hepburn film: 1935 : ALICEADAMS
55
Granny or sheepshank : KNOT
57
Peace advocates : DOVES
58
Certain biog. sketch : OBIT
59
Prefix with colon or formal : SEMI
60
Nautical command : AVAST
61
Trick : WILE
62
Latin abbr. : ETAL
63
Yiddish gossip : YENTA
64
Require : NEED
65
Actor Franchot : TONE
Down
1
Motorist's headache : FLAT
2
Nomad's delight : OASIS
3
A mammal, for short : RHINO
4
Hepburn film: 1944 : DRAGONSEED
5
Put on a play : STAGED
6
Distort : COLOR
7
Russian sea : ARAL
8
Most delicate : TENDEREST
9
Angles : SLANTS
10
Succulent part of fruit : PULP
11
Outside: Comb. form : ECTO
12
Hepburn's "The ___ in Winter" : LION
13
Advance : LEND
22
___ oneself (endeavor) : EXERT
24
To no degree : NOT
27
Prop in 28 Down : PHONE
28
Hepburn film: 1957 : THEDESKSET
29
Plummer role : IAGO
30
Snatch : GRAB
31
One, in Bonn : EINE
32
Blow one's own horn : BRAG
33
Lounge : LOLL
34
Not ashore : ASEA
35
Impose restrictions : CLAMPDOWN
38
Fragrance : AROMA
42
Lawyers' org. : ABA
44
Nap : SIESTA
45
Settled in cozily : NESTED
47
It can be "your umbrella" : SMILE
48
___ a customer : ONETO
49
"___ is an island ... " : NOMAN
50
"An apple ___ ... " : ADAY
51
Hepburn TV movie "___ Among the Ruins" : LOVE
52
Russian czar : IVAN
53
"___ la vie" : CEST
54
Nichols hero : ABIE
56
Roofing item : TILE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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