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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Thursday, November 19, 1987

33-Down : Birthright

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7 Grid has duplicate clues.
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,890
Across
1
Mexican sandwich : TACO
5
Dog's bane : FLEA
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Escape : ELUDE
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Payment for Charon : OBOL
15
Mislaid : LOST
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Venerable, to Virgil : CANUS
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Changed : ALTERED
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Ab ___ (from the beginning) : OVO
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Canadian export : ALE
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American thrush : VEERY
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Title for Emma Bovary : MME
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Ballet bird : SWAN
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Feminine suffix : ESS
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Balletic knee bend : PLIE
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Actress Woodard : ALFRE
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Patron saint of cripples : GILES
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Obscures : CLOUDS
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Deeply : HEADOVERHEELS
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Hawed's partner : HEMMED
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Dissolute dandies : ROUES
38
Photographer Diane : ARBUS
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Stop up : CLOG
40
Target of Philip Wylie : MOM
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"South Pacific" ingenue : LIAT
44
Campanella or Rogers : ROY
45
Bakery bonus : AROMA
47
Orch. section : STR
48
Court follower : IER
49
Ebbs : RECEDES
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S-shaped moldings : OGEES
55
Famous sister ship : NINA
56
"Fish Magic" painter : KLEE
57
TV actress Volz : NEDRA
58
Ben Adhem : ABOU
59
Fast fliers : SSTS
Down
1
Start of a Hemingway title : TOHAVE
2
White poplars : ABELES
3
"The Dam Busters" composer : COATES
4
More antiquated : OLDER
5
Drifting sea ice : FLOE
6
Mountbatten, for one : LORD
7
Superlative finish : EST
8
Awaiting visitors : ATHOME
9
Alpine sound : ECHO
10
Chou En-___ : LAI
11
Illicit : UNLAWFUL
12
Blockheads : DULLARDS
13
Ancient group of mystics : ESSENES
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Use a spider : FRY
19
Night before : EVE
24
Penurious : MISERLY
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Wild plums : SLOES
27
Walk wearily : PLOD
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O.T. book : LEV
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Sheltered, at sea : ALEE
30
Entire range : GAMUT
31
March 15, e.g. : IDES
32
Puff : CHUG
33
Birthright : HERITAGE
34
Started out : EMBARKED
35
Kanga's baby : ROO
36
U.S. fashion designer : HALSTON
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Type of cigar : CORONA
40
Paragons : MODELS
41
Egg concoction : OMELET
42
The common people : MASSES
44
Auto maker's monogram : REO
45
"___ Du Lieber ... " : ACH
46
Exudes fumes : REEKS
48
TV's "___ Living" : ITSA
49
Gambler's town : RENO
50
A son of Isaac : ESAU
52
Ending for auction : EER
53
Projecting end : NIB

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 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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