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Dorothy N. Davis
Dorothy N. Davis

New York Times, Thursday, January 9, 1986

23-Down : Unpredictable

Author:
Dorothy Davis
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Dorothy N. Davis has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Dorothy Davis is an alias for Dorothy N. Davis.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,211
Across
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Mil. address : APO
4
Summoned to court : HALED
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Change direction of a sailboat : TACK
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Distant : FAR
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Church officer : ELDER
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Govern : RULE
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Shortcake item or Met star : STRAWBERRY
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Notion : IDEA
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Parlor piece : SETTEE
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Designate : ASSIGN
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Italian city, former U.N. protectorate : TRIESTE
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Test at a h.s. : PSAT
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Phoenician love goddess : ASTARTE
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Charm or beauty : GRACE
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Chum : PAL
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Gait for a standardbred : TROT
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Brother of Moses : AARON
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Quasi : ASIF
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Horner or Sprat : EATER
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Dissolve : MELT
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Ancient ruined city in Jordan : PETRA
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Vetch : TARE
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Platonic preceder : NEO
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Money receiver : PAYEE
45
___ Cité, Notre Dame location : ILEDELA
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Novelist Ambler : ERIC
50
Reduces assessments : DERATES
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A Waugh : EVELYN
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General appearance : FACIES
57
"Namouna" composer : LALO
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Wonderland entrance : RABBITHOLE
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"David and ___," 1963 film : LISA
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West German industrial city : ESSEN
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Chemical suffix : ENE
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Coaster : SLED
66
Civil War general : MEADE
67
Ukr. is one : SSR
Down
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Noon preceder : AFTER
2
Special liking : PARTIALITY
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Emulates Pericles : ORATES
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Become obtuse : HEBETATE
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Lager's cousin : ALE
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G.W. or D.D.E. : LDR
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Poetic contraction : EER
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" ... ___ summer dust": Wordsworth : DRYAS
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Isolde's lover : TRISTRAM
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"___ alteram partem" ("Hear the other side") : AUDI
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British gadfly : CLEG
12
English actor: 1787-1833 : KEAN
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Fast jet : SST
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Occident : WEST
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Heroic tale : SAGA
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Unpredictable : ERRATIC
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___ out (diminished gradually) : PETERED
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Entire : TOTAL
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Treatments with sand : ARENATIONS
29
Old King ___ : COLE
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Inner: Comb. form : ENTO
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Famed producer : PAPP
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Cruising : ASEA
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Sponge : FREELOAD
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Revise crossword clues : REDEFINE
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Visionary, in poesy : AERY
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Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
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Negligence : LACHES
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Against a thing, in law : INREM
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Conger fisherman : EELER
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London-to-Tours dir. : SSE
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Building extensions : ELLS
54
Lower : VAIL
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Other : ELSE
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Enzyme : ASE
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U.S. youth org. : BSA
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Planting ground : BED

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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