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Kay Sullivan
Kay Sullivan

New York Times, Saturday, March 5, 1983

47-Down : Chooses

Author:
Kay Sullivan
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { B F G J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Kay Sullivan has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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V
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O
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N
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P
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A
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S
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S
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S
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P
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A
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T
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E
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A
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C
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E
L
A
N
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M
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Y
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M
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D
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A
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I
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P
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C
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S
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L
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E
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S
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S
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P
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W
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A
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H
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S
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O
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S
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P
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U
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A
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S
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R
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C
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R
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M
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D
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T
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N
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,170
Across
1
Composer ___ Dittersdorf : VON
4
Simplon is one : PASS
8
Flash flood : SPATE
13
A Waugh : ALEC
15
Dash : ELAN
16
Yucatec : MAYAN
17
Tea, in Tewkesbury : MEAL
18
Kind of bank : DATA
19
___ la Cité : ILEDE
20
Mexico's "smoking mountain" : POPOCATEPETL
23
Safe's partner : SANE
24
Ecclesiastical vestments : STOLES
28
Burst of energy : SPURT
30
Thin; insipid : WATERISH
32
Cache : HOARD
33
Alarm : SIREN
34
Siouan : OTO
35
Gaelic name for Ireland : EIRE
36
Companions of heels : SOLES
37
French tire : PNEU
38
Jackie's second mate : ARI
39
Footwear for Jiggs : SPATS
40
Bad news for motorists : SLEET
41
Energy producers : REACTORS
43
Domain : REALM
44
Actor in "True Confessions" : DENIRO
45
Certain missiles : SAMS
46
Montezuma's capital : TENOCHTITLAN
52
Something paid by a friend : VISIT
55
___-Bah, in "The Mikado" : POOH
56
Facilitate : EASE
57
Inhabitant of 46 Across : AZTEC
58
Weight deduction : TARE
59
___ of passage : RITE
60
Set of three hounds : LEASH
61
Brit. money : STER
62
Land east of Eden : NOD
Down
1
Nita or Theda : VAMP
2
Spread for a spread : OLEO
3
___ tide : NEAP
4
Certain stickler : PEDANT
5
Like the Victory of Samothrace : ALATE
6
Surfeit : SATE
7
Cinch : SNAP
8
Infatuated : SMITTEN
9
Lack of color : PALLOR
10
Ever, in poesy : AYE
11
Bit : TAD
12
Chemical ending : ENE
14
Finish : CLOSURE
21
Wag : CARD
22
Met bass-baritone Simon ___ : ESTES
25
Stander or Barrymore : LIONEL
26
Regard : ESTEEM
27
Conclamation : SHOUT
28
Social gathering : SOIREE
29
Designating a fine, white marble : PARIAN
30
Droops : WILTS
31
A son of Hera : ARES
32
Got the oral message : HEARD
33
Emulate a hawk : SOAR
36
Fishing lure : SPOON
37
Sculptor's material, at times : PLASTER
39
Seventh-inning ritual : STRETCH
40
Trailer, for short : SEMI
42
"Thine alabaster ___ gleam": Bates : CITIES
43
Cronkite's successor : RATHER
45
Kind of dinner : SHORE
47
Chooses : OPTS
48
Prince Albert, e.g. : COAT
49
"Upon whose bosom snow has ___": Kilmer : LAIN
50
Concerning : ASTO
51
Want : NEED
52
Type of French lace : VAL
53
Verb-forming suffix : IZE
54
Part of a RR system : STA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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