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Margaret Kingman
Margaret Kingman

New York Times, Friday, December 16, 1983

13-Down : Like Mae's grapes

Author:
Margaret Kingman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Margaret Kingman has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,456
Across
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Garbo's was Grand : HOTEL
6
Poet laureate Lewis : CDAY
10
Golf shot : CHIP
14
Mitchell name : OHARA
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Woody's son : ARLO
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Gown fabric : LAME
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Lazarus and Calvé : EMMAS
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Fleece : ROOK
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"Don't tread ___" : ONME
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Dietrich film : THEBLUEANGEL
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Shoot the breeze : GAB
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Nice school : ECOLE
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North Sea feeder : MEUSE
28
Worthless : BLUESKY
30
Prefix for cycle : TRI
32
Pres. Wilson was one : PHD
33
"Mens ___ in corpore ... " : SANA
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Stall : STAND
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Hit song of 1940 : ITSABLUEWORLD
42
Lake Geneva spa : EVIAN
43
"___ Lee," 1861 song : AURA
45
Patch item : PEA
48
Part of S.A.S.E. : ENV
49
Hit song of 1929 : AMIBLUE
52
Pergola : ARBOR
54
Corroded : EATEN
56
Sentence interrupters : UMS
57
Diamond platter that earned gold: 1972 : SONGSUNGBLUE
60
Level : TIER
61
Zoological suffix : IDAE
62
"The ___ Day," 1847 song : RAINY
66
Field measure : ACRE
67
Receivers : SETS
68
Outward : ECTAD
69
Back talk : SASS
70
Tare's partner : TRET
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What a farrier does : SHOES
Down
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Ground breaker : HOE
2
German physicist : OHM
3
Caledonian cap : TAM
4
Part of Q.E.F. : ERAT
5
Mascara locales : LASHES
6
Chemist's bottle : CARBOY
7
Funny : DROLL
8
Children's chanson : ALOUETTE
9
Shackle : YOKE
10
Duplicate of a sort : CLONE
11
How to silence a phone salesman : HANGUP
12
Entangle : IMMESH
13
Like Mae's grapes : PEELED
21
Foe of Luther : ECK
22
Kind of acid : AMINO
23
A.k.a. Corno di Bassetto : GBS
24
Turkish regiment : ALAI
25
Option for Rose : BUNT
29
Alleviate : EASE
31
Callow : RAW
34
Bask : SUN
35
Lackluster : DRAB
37
Asserts : AVERS
38
Cannel holder : BIN
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Pale purple : LAVENDER
40
She's back in town : LULU
41
Type of roll : DRUM
44
Amb. to the U.N.: 1961-65 : AES
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They're best when al dente : PASTAS
46
Beethoven's Third : EROICA
47
Doubleday and Dean : ABNERS
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Maximally : ATBEST
50
Alice's TV boss : MEL
51
Habituates : INURES
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Grimm bad guys : OGRES
55
Marble : AGATE
58
Outer Hebrides island : UIST
59
Every single one : EACH
63
Dancer Michio ___ : ITO
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Ayr refusal : NAE
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Grid. measures : YDS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 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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