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Dorothy Cannan
Dorothy Cannan

New York Times, Monday, July 4, 1977

27-Across : Floor of a building

Author:
Dorothy Cannan
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 309 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 2, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7 Grid has duplicate clues.
Dorothy Cannan has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,187
Across
1
Indian princes : RAJAS
6
Skeet feats : HITS
10
Creator of Tobacco Rhoda : CAPP
14
Ooze out slowly : EXUDE
15
Tale: Abbr. : ANEC
16
Cohan's "___ There" : OVER
17
Apportion : ALLOT
18
Inactive : IDLE
19
Name meaning "black" : NERO
20
Alfonso XIII, e.g. : REY
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Marching instruments : FIFEANDDRUM
24
Winter headgear : FURCAP
26
Perfect score on a test : IOO
27
Floor of a building : STOREY
29
Builds slopes around a fort : ESCARPS
33
Something to fight for : CAUSE
34
Kind of attack : SNEAK
35
Landon : ALF
37
Distinctive air : AURA
38
Foot lever : PEDAL
39
Cap-___ (from head to foot) : APIE
40
Nobel product : TNT
41
Kilmer poem : TREES
42
___ de menthe : CREME
43
Nickname for Chile's cape : THEHORN
45
Plume: Var. : AIGRET
46
Adage : SAW
47
Habitual practice : CUSTOM
49
French counterpart of 7 Down : BASTILLEDAY
53
Pussy-cat's shipmate : OWL
56
Clarinet's cousin : OBOE
57
Judge, in Baghdad : CADI
58
Obsession : MANIA
60
Unerring : SURE
61
"Give ___ a horse ... " : AMAN
62
Expert : ADEPT
63
Prow of a ship : STEM
64
Comedienne from Butte : RAYE
65
Receiver of a check : PAYEE
Down
1
With 2 Down, car part : REAR
2
See above : AXLE
3
Today : JULYFOURTH
4
What the Stamp Act caused : ADO
5
No longer dependent : SETFREE
6
Israeli port : HAIFA
7
8
Brain tissue : TELA
9
Picturesque, as a stage performance : SCENICAL
10
American vulture : CONDOR
11
State firmly : AVER
12
Seat of the Inca empire : PERU
13
Gym dance, at times : PROM
22
Kind of stare : ICY
23
Walker of football fame : DOAK
25
Minor or Major : URSA
27
Ailurophobe's cry : SCAT
28
Gibe : TAUNT
30
Magellan's milieus : SEAS
31
Currency of a sort : PAPERMONEY
32
Sticky mud : SLIME
34
Clairvoyant : SEER
36
A mile has 5,280 : FEET
38
Police vehicle : PROWLCAR
39
Jason's ship : ARGO
41
Siamese : THAI
42
Town plat : CITYMAP
44
Regard highly : ESTEEM
45
Fresh ___ daisy : ASA
48
Neighbor of Trieste : UDINE
49
Office bigwig : BOSS
50
Be adjacent : ABUT
51
In a pique : SORE
52
Tibetan priest : LAMA
54
Rub clean : WIPE
55
Behind schedule : LATE
59
Political org. : ADA

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

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