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Martha J. DeWitt
Martha J. DeWitt

New York Times, Monday, December 24, 1979

5-Down : American aborigine

Author:
Martha J. DeWitt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { C J Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0 Grid has duplicate clues.
Martha J. DeWitt has 72 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 11,003
Across
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Less ruddy : PALER
6
Bends in the middle : SAGS
10
Door catch : HASP
14
True : ALINE
15
Rodgers collaborator : HART
16
Italian commune : ENNA
17
Describing Milquetoast : TIMID
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Kind of code : AREA
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Freshly : ANEW
20
Used garment : HANDMEDOWN
22
Brooklet : RILL
23
Prayer ending : AMEN
24
Ritz and Grand : HOTELS
26
Having claws : TALONED
30
Raspberries' kin : BOOS
31
Prolific poet: Abbr. : ANON
32
Mollify : APPEASE
36
Caressed : STROKED
40
Makes seawater potable : DESALTS
41
Rose or Ethel : KENNEDY
42
Leak out : SEEP
43
Fencer's foil : EPEE
44
General pardon : AMNESTY
47
Admits : LETSIN
50
Dark purple fruit : SLOE
51
Give off : EMIT
52
Kind of Boy Scout : TENDERFOOT
58
Put the kibosh on : VETO
59
Busy as ___ : ABEE
60
Brink : VERGE
61
Gardner's first name : ERLE
62
Ripped : TORN
63
Kind of Boy Scout : EAGLE
64
Soap ingredients : LYES
65
Termini : ENDS
66
Eye ailments : STYES
Down
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Trail : PATH
2
Inter ___ : ALIA
3
Draw : LIMN
4
Geraint's wife : ENID
5
American aborigine : REDMAN
6
Changed slightly, as a painting : SHADED
7
Hank or Tommy : AARON
8
Developed : GREW
9
Buggy : STANHOPE
10
Wild pansy : HEARTSEASE
11
Laurie : ANNIE
12
Fishline leader : SNELL
13
Certain sliding bolts : PAWLS
21
Friend, in Glasgow : EME
25
Clumsy person's cry : OOPS
26
Kind of force : TASK
27
Feed the kitty : ANTE
28
Elinor Wylie's "Jennifer ___" : LORN
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Alert : ONONESTOES
30
Spoiled : BAD
33
Dark brown and October : ALES
34
Printer's direction : STET
35
Make out : ESPY
37
Poilu's cap : KEPI
38
Lacking teeth : EDENTATE
39
Textile pigment : DYE
44
John and Priscilla : ALDENS
45
Morris, for short : MOE
46
Jitters : NERVES
47
On the ___ (honest) : LEVEL
48
Kind of board : EMERY
49
Championship : TITLE
50
Wooden Mortimer : SNERD
53
Black : EBON
54
Deed : FEAT
55
Binge : ORGY
56
Give the eye : OGLE
57
Kickers' positioners : TEES

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