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Shirley Soloway
Shirley Soloway

New York Times, Monday, December 5, 1983

9-Down : Treatise

Author:
Shirley Soloway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Shirley Soloway has 34 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,445
Across
1
Sunday morning sounds : PEALS
6
Happy : GLAD
10
Surfeit : CLOY
14
Apportion : ALLOT
15
East Indian grass : RAGI
16
Singer Horne : LENA
17
Egyptian metropolis : CAIRO
18
Literary work : OPUS
19
Level : EVEN
20
Has friends over : ENTERTAINS
22
Fur bearer : MINK
23
Cultural studies : ARTS
24
Corrects : EMENDS
26
Spanish grocery shops : BODEGAS
30
Algerian port : ORAN
31
Up and about : ARISEN
32
Ability : APTITUDE
36
Go away! : SCAT
37
Jolly one in a red suit : SANTA
39
Angered : IRED
40
Magic charm : TALISMAN
42
Key activity : TUNING
44
Golda : MEIR
45
Subtlety : FINESSE
46
Oblique : ASLANT
49
Paid players : PROS
50
This and ___ : THAT
51
Southern Italian folk dance : TARANTELLA
57
Homophone for sorry : SARI
58
Cheese of Holland : EDAM
59
Heep of fiction : URIAH
60
Hence : ERGO
61
Ceremony : RITE
62
About : CIRCA
63
Capital of South Yemen : ADEN
64
Suffix with game or song : STER
65
Genua : KNEES
Down
1
Rate of speed : PACE
2
Vivacity : ELAN
3
Landed : ALIT
4
Learning : LORE
5
Warehouse space : STORAGE
6
Hulled grain : GROATS
7
___ lazuli : LAPIS
8
Berlin's "You Can't Get a Man with ___" : AGUN
9
Treatise : DISSERTATION
10
Wearer of No. 9 shoes : CLEMENTINE
11
Suspense novelist : LEVIN
12
Erect : ONEND
13
Pulls hard : YANKS
21
Parts of telephones : TRANSMITTERS
25
Spring month in Marseille : MAI
26
Strong woody fiber : BAST
27
Whale of a film in 1977? : ORCA
28
TV turner : DIAL
29
Ball-park figure : ESTIMATION
30
Choose : OPT
32
Raggedy ___ : ANN
33
"QB VII" author : URIS
34
Family rooms : DENS
35
Rim : EDGE
38
River of Switzerland : AAR
41
Japanese coin of yore : SEN
43
Loosened : UNSTUCK
45
Art-museum employee : FRAMER
46
Confused : ATSEA
47
Snail's shell : SHARD
48
Big : LARGE
49
Chatter : PRATE
52
Mine entrance : ADIT
53
"___ go bragh" : ERIN
54
Italian currency : LIRE
55
Alençon product : LACE
56
Sounds of discovery : AHAS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 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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