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Carol Dutting
Carol Dutting

New York Times, Thursday, July 17, 1980

55-Across : Common winter complaint

Author:
Carol Dutting
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 251 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Carol Dutting has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,209
Across
1
Aide to a prin. : ASST
5
Comic-strip character : POGO
9
Other than : ELSE
13
Heidi's friend : CLARA
15
Back up : ABET
16
Othello, e.g. : MOOR
17
Hummingbird variety : RUBYTHROAT
19
Rebound vocally : ECHO
20
Entry for an airline sched. : ETA
21
One who carries : TOTER
22
Certain witches and musketeers : TRIOS
23
Spanish painter : DALI
24
F.D.R.'s mater : SARA
26
Have a goal : ASPIRETO
30
Tray : SALVER
34
Scarlett's original love : TARA
35
Goddess of the chase : DIANA
37
Kansan who yielded to Reagan early in 1980 : DOLE
38
Wander : ROAM
39
Siouan Indian : OTO
40
" ... to hastening ___ a prey": Goldsmith : ILLS
41
Ambler's "Journey ___ Fear" : INTO
42
In re : ANENT
44
Printer's direction : STET
45
Flattened with the head of a hammer : PEENED
47
Author of "I, the Jury" : SPILLANE
49
Wainscot : DADO
51
" ... baked in ___" : APIE
52
Alcott's "___ Cousins" : EIGHT
55
Common winter complaint : VIRUS
57
U.S.S.R. river : KET
60
Field mouse : VOLE
61
Popular greenery from South Africa : JADEPLANTS
63
Flowering shrub : ITEA
64
Hun head : ATLI
65
Helen, in Napoli : ELENA
66
Illinois, "___ of Lincoln" : LAND
67
Fishing accessory : REEL
68
Tragic king : LEAR
Down
1
Brazilian state : ACRE
2
Slattern : SLUT
3
One of the Leewards : SABA
4
Examine judicially : TRY
5
Divider : PARTITION
6
"Ill wind that no one blows good" : OBOE
7
Cogwheels : GEARS
8
Coogan's Bluff hero : OTT
9
10
Sites : LOCI
11
London district : SOHO
12
God of love : EROS
14
Essence : ATTAR
18
Perforated : HOLED
22
Song syllable : TRA
23
Oahu landmark : DIAMONDHEAD
25
Biblical king : ASA
26
Aweigh : ATRIP
27
River to the Rhone : SAONE
28
Babble : PRATE
29
Joyce Carol : OATES
31
Upper ___, African republic : VOLTA
32
Terry or Drew : ELLEN
33
Remainder, in Reims : RESTE
36
Peerless : NONPAREIL
42
Total : ADD
43
Type of table : TIPUP
46
Have a hero : EAT
48
Hose material : LISLE
50
Egg-shaped : OVATE
52
What the love of money begets : EVIL
53
Minute amount : IOTA
54
Certain plaid : GLEN
56
Recumbent : IDLE
57
Place for Jolson's Sonny Boy : KNEE
58
Sicilian menace : ETNA
59
Nicholas or Peter : TSAR
61
Shake up : JAR
62
Warren's "___ the King's Men" : ALL

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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