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Mary Cee Whitten
Mary Cee Whitten

New York Times, Friday, April 30, 1982

23-Down : Church official

Author:
Mary C. Whitten
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q W X Y }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Mary Cee Whitten has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Mary C. Whitten is an alias for Mary Cee Whitten.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,861
Across
1
Pod : SHUCK
6
Church head : POPE
10
Spanish artist : DALI
14
Mustafa Kemal ___ : PASHA
15
Biblical kingdom : ELAM
16
Level : EVEN
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"Experience keeps ___ school": Franklin : ADEAR
18
Flaccid : LIMP
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Essence : GIST
20
Spanish painter-sculptor : PABLOPICASSO
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Assumed proposition : DATUM
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Periods : ERAS
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Equal : PEER
27
Fitted : GEARED
29
Caesar's "Hi!" or "Bye" : AVE
32
Jewish month : ADAR
33
Law deg. : LLB
34
Pythias' friend : DAMON
36
Florentine sculptor : LUCADELLAROBBIA
40
School, in Nice : ECOLE
41
Silkworm : ERI
42
Religious group : SECT
43
Cub Scout unit : DEN
44
Conqueror of Rome: A.D. 410 : ALARIC
47
Algonquian Indian : CREE
48
Hit the dirt : SLID
49
Naughts : ZEROS
51
French sculptor : AUGUSTERODIN
55
Cookie : SNAP
56
College in N.C. : ELON
57
Gustav VI ___, Swedish king : ADOLF
61
Timber supporting a dock : PILE
62
Moreno : RITA
63
Titter : TEHEE
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Celebrity : STAR
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Witnessed : SEEN
66
Ready for battle : ARMED
Down
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Town having allegiance to Liège : SPA
2
Follower of Mary in a rhyme : HAD
3
Employ : USE
4
Dense thicket : CHAPARRAL
5
Gold measure of fineness : KARAT
6
Disorderly : PELLMELL
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Mixture : OLIO
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Indulge : PAMPER
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Sovereignty : EMPIRE
10
French artist : DEGAS
11
Advice, in Arles : AVIS
12
More's antithesis : LESS
13
"___ each life ... " : INTO
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Horn : BUGLE
22
Indian language : CADDO
23
Church official : DEACON
25
Turned wan : PALED
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Bring out : EDUCE
28
More adept : ABLER
29
Fossil resins : AMBERS
30
Utter : VOICE
31
Maternally related : ENATE
35
Fugitive : ABSCONDER
37
Fir or pine boards : DEALS
38
La Guardia, as a child : ARIZONAN
39
Prepared potatoes, in a way : RICED
45
European quarts : LITERS
46
___ Land, in Antarctica : ADELIE
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Fantastic : SUPER
50
Lasso : RIATA
51
Creatures studied by herpetologists : ASPS
52
Single thing : UNIT
53
Festive : GALA
54
Surf sound : ROTE
58
Resistance measure, to an E.E. : OHM
59
Novelist Harper ___ : LEE
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I.R.S. agent : FED

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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