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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Friday, May 23, 1980

7-Down : Relevant

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 249 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has supersymmetry.
Dorothea E. Shipp has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,154
Across
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Noise denoting terror : SCREAM
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Spurted : GUSHED
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Abstract sculpture : STABILE
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Relying on experience alone : EMPIRIC
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Leathernecks : MARINES
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More prepared : READIER
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Give ___ whirl : ITA
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Spade or Levenson : SAM
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French beverage : THE
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Director Jean-___ Godard : LUC
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Inflexible : ADAMANT
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Kind of session : RAP
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Cycle : ERA
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Window-box flower : BEGONIA
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Poetic word : ERE
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What firemen do on a diamond : RELIEVE
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Groups of nine : ENNEADS
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Ziegfeld : FLO
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Stretch out, as money or food : EKE
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Summer TV fare : REPEATS
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Comprehensive : OVERALL
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Yoko : ONO
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Fretful one : REPINER
48
New Guinean port : LAE
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Entertainers in W.W. II : USO
50
Famines : DEARTHS
51
Saharan garb : ABA
52
Max Beerbohm, for one : SIR
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American caricaturist : REA
54
"Rocker" contemporary : MOD
55
Parker or Powell : ELEANOR
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Treat old furniture : RESTORE
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Set apart for a certain purpose : DESTINE
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Confidant : INSIDER
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Under the alfluence of incohol : STONED
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Groom : OSTLER
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Height : STATURE
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Reddish-brown lynx : CARACAL
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Statistic for Yaz or DiMag : RBI
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German article : EIN
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Brew : ALE
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Memo, e.g. : MESSAGE
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Relevant : GERMANE
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Japanese apricot : UME
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Karlovy Vary is one : SPA
10
Stashed : HID
11
Asmara's country : ERITREA
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Extreme conservative : DIEHARD
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His "umbrella" is bright : SMILER
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Very thin pancakes : CREPES
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___, amas, amat : AMO
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Héloïse's beloved : ABELARD
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Fan : DEVOTEE
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Ancient Assyrian capital : NINEVEH
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Suez sights : TANKERS
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Nigerian group : IFE
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Always, in poesy : EER
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Awakened : ROUSED
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Stores grain : ENSILES
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At the bottom of the class : POOREST
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Bandied words : SPARRED
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Smallest of the HOMES group : ONTARIO
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Thin, shiny silk : ALAMODE
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A.F.L. member : LABORER
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Coryphaeus : LEADER
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Fury : IRE
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From ___ Z : ATO
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She wrote "Delta of Venus" : NIN
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"Wonderful ___," old song : ONE
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U.S.N.A. graduate : ENS
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Swift crosser of the Atl. : SST
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Sesame : TIL

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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