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Carol Dutting
Carol Dutting

New York Times, Monday, July 27, 1981

23-Down : "___ Bill the Sailor," 1931 song

Author:
Carol Dutting
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F G J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Carol Dutting has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,584
Across
1
Arrangement : SETUP
6
Arose : STOOD
11
Ball of cotton : WAD
14
In agreement : ATONE
15
Lachrymose : TEARY
16
Consumed : ATE
17
Committee head, feminist style : CHAIRPERSON
19
Container : TIN
20
Kennedy transient : SST
21
Matthew, Mark, Luke or John : SAINT
22
White poplar : ABELE
24
Bereft : LORN
25
Stings : SMARTS
26
Cuspid : CANINE
29
Gun sound : REPORT
31
Uline in Washington, D.C., is one : ARENA
32
Theda : BARA
33
California wine valley : NAPA
36
Royal stables : MEWS
37
Stains : SOILS
38
Cry that is a far cry from "Vive!" : ABAS
39
Tense : PAST
40
Corn bread : PONE
41
Half of DIV : CCLII
42
Warrant officers : BOSUNS
44
Woody, Steve et al. : ALLENS
45
Drew forth : EDUCED
47
" ... baked in ___" : APIE
48
Winter wear : PARKA
49
Salts or Downs : EPSOM
51
___ Paulo, Brazil : SAO
54
Golfing thrill : ACE
55
Room and meals : BEDANDBOARD
58
Humorous suffix with hot or got : CHA
59
Mom's Mom, for one : ENATE
60
They sometimes "meet to eat" at the club : ELITE
61
Greek letter : TAU
62
Fudd or Gantry : ELMER
63
Evans and Robertson : DALES
Down
1
Micmacs' cousins : SACS
2
Ordinal suffixes : ETHS
3
Exactly : TOAT
4
Before lateral or sonant : UNI
5
___ non grata : PERSONA
6
She wrote "Three Lives" : STEIN
7
Aquatic bird : TERN
8
Hops drier : OAST
9
Spanish gold : ORO
10
Extremely energetic one : DYNAMO
11
Well driller's concern : WATERTABLE
12
Not level : ATILT
13
British sand hills : DENES
18
Peel : PARE
23
"___ Bill the Sailor," 1931 song : BARNACLE
24
Ancient cannon-firing device : LINSTOCK
25
Bad Ems and Bad Gastein : SPAS
26
Amusingly pretentious : CAMP
27
Region : AREA
28
Agency distributing information : NEWSBUREAU
29
He played David Belasco in 1940 : RAINS
30
Gardner : ERLE
32
Blessing : BOON
34
___ in the neck : PAIN
35
Sale sign : ASIS
37
Tater : SPUD
41
Scaled : CLIMBED
43
Navy engineer : SEABEE
44
... two peas in ___ : APOD
45
Solar year excess : EPACT
46
Russian villa : DACHA
47
Ed of TV : ASNER
49
Cheese town : EDAM
50
A certain crown : PATE
51
Go to sea : SAIL
52
Entertainer Johnson : ARTE
53
Keats's métier : ODES
56
Make bigger: Abbr. : ENL
57
Spanish wave : OLA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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