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Evelyn Benshoof
Evelyn Benshoof

New York Times, Friday, August 18, 1967

40-Down : Escalating.

Author:
Evelyn Benshoof
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
Evelyn Benshoof has 71 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,579
Across
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Skill. : FINESSE
8
Tie for a boxer. : LEASH
13
Pacific port, winter resort. : ACAPULCO
15
Host of 1968 Olympics. : MEXICO
16
Work to be done on a manuscript. : REVISION
17
Ball team. : ASTROS
18
Isle and city of England. : ELYS
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Choose. : ELECT
21
Part of the overhead. : RENT
22
Name akin to 36 Across. : TESS
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Organic soils. : HUMUSES
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___ as a pancake. : ASFLAT
29
Was concerned. : CARED
30
Current heroes, in fact or fiction. : SPIES
31
Bargain centers. : BASEMENTS
35
Possessive. : HIS
36
Girl's name, French style. : THERESE
38
Cinnabar. : ORE
39
Beseeched. : ENTREATED
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Belgian city. : NAMUR
43
Slang. : ARGOT
44
Main, for one. : STREET
45
Santo ___. : DOMINGO
48
Contour of Italy. : BOOT
49
Time periods. : ERAS
50
City of Soap Box Derby. : AKRON
52
Gambling game. : FARO
56
More industrious. : BUSIER
58
Downing Street resident. : LONDONER
60
Smoothed. : IRONED
61
Gibing. : SNEERING
62
One of the fire irons. : TONGS
63
Roosevelt's Secretary of War. : STIMSON
Down
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Going-up item. : FARE
2
Island country: Abbr. : ICEL
3
Defense group. : NAVY
4
Communication. : EPISTLE
5
Genus of swine. : SUS
6
Most roguish. : SLIEST
7
Divisions of biology: Abbr. : ECOLS
8
French article. : LES
9
Throw out. : EXTRUDE
10
Buenos ___. : AIRES
11
Something to eat. : SCONE
12
Party men. : HOSTS
14
Willkie's "World." : ONE
15
Comes of age. : MATURES
20
Ran after. : CHASED
23
Oriental. : EASTERN
25
Souvenir. : MEMENTO
26
North Carolina name. : ASHE
27
Go around. : SPIN
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Mailed item. : FIST
29
Omission sign. : CARET
31
___ oneself (went). : BETOOK
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Alaskan cape. : NOME
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Affirmative answer. : TRUE
34
Spanish painter. : SERT
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Rider of fiction. : HAGGARD
40
Escalating. : RAISING
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Creative endeavor. : ARTFORM
44
Poem. : SONNET
45
Bookkeeping entry. : DEBIT
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Bolivian city, tin-mining center. : ORURO
47
Builder of walls. : MASON
48
Favors. : BOONS
51
Author's initials. : RLS
53
Cuckoo's cousins. : ANIS
54
City north of Carson City. : RENO
55
Unified group: Mil. abbr. : ORGN
57
Diminutive suffixes. : EES
59
___ gratia. : DEI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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