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Bette Sue Cohen
Bette Sue Cohen

New York Times, Thursday, September 2, 1982

48-Across : Swift descent

Author:
Bette Sue Cohen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J K Q V X }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Bette Sue Cohen has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 6 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,986
Across
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Transported : RAPT
5
Form of Hindustani : URDU
9
Dreiser subject : TITAN
14
Zoological suffix : IDAE
15
Answer to many a farmer's prayer : RAIN
16
___ Gay, famous plane : ENOLA
17
Ignoring : TURNINGADEAFEAR
20
Russian-born violinist : ELMAN
21
Aspersion : SLUR
22
No longer new : USED
23
Takes a position : STANDS
25
Slaughter once active in St. Louis : ENOS
27
Ga., Cal., etc. : TECHS
30
Elgar's "___ Variations" : ENIGMA
34
State Dept. official : AMB
37
"The Wild Swans at ___": Yeats : COOLE
39
Wind-borne : EOLIC
40
Goes straight ahead : FOLLOWSONESNOSE
43
"Do ___ a Waltz?" : IHEAR
44
Kind of porch or window : STORM
45
Unite : WED
46
Aries follower : TAURUS
48
Swift descent : SWOOP
50
Hit song of 1979 : YMCA
52
Apt : SUITED
56
Stravinsky ballet : AGON
59
Surmounting : ATOP
62
___ alba (gypsum) : TERRA
63
Speaker's bane : FROGINTHETHROAT
66
Used a steel ball : RAZED
67
River in England : AIRE
68
Set system : ROTE
69
Portly : OBESE
70
Beat badly : ROUT
71
Poetry of a people : EPOS
Down
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Bar and bas mitzvah : RITES
2
Past puberty : ADULT
3
Toscanini's birthplace : PARMA
4
Lessee : TENANT
5
Coffee server : URN
6
Riches' antitheses : RAGS
7
Choose a channel : DIAL
8
Excessive : UNDUE
9
Iced or spiced item : TEA
10
Admixture : INFUSION
11
___ the line (obeys) : TOES
12
Wings for Mercury : ALAE
13
Plant or ointment : NARD
18
Bad taste : INDECORUM
19
Irish lake : ERNE
24
Harbor vessel : SCOW
26
" ... silver spoon in ___" : ONESMOUTH
28
Nag in a Holmes poem : HOSS
29
Reno machines : SLOTS
31
Be visibly elated : GLOW
32
___ en scène : MISE
33
Scored quickly, in tennis : ACED
34
Have ___ (be enraged) : AFIT
35
Koloa ___, Hawaiian bird : MOHA
36
Tricolor color : BLEU
38
Enough, poetically : ENOW
41
Voice boxes : LARYNGES
42
Piccadilly Circus sight : EROS
47
What a CAT can do : SCAN
49
Capital of S.D. : PIERRE
51
Rose essence : ATTAR
53
One of Juliette Low's groups : TROOP
54
A sister of Melpomene : ERATO
55
Bread sweeteners, at times : DATES
56
Hairdo : AFRO
57
Kind of bag : GRAB
58
Soft mud : OOZE
60
"Wonderful Town" song : OHIO
61
Scene of a Wilder novel : PERU
64
Chemical suffix : IDE
65
Asian holiday : TET

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later.

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