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Dorothy N. Davis
Dorothy N. Davis

New York Times, Monday, August 9, 1976

22-Down : After dees

Author:
D. Davis
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.89, Missing: { F J K Q V W Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Dorothy N. Davis has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
D. Davis is an alias for Dorothy N. Davis.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,858
Across
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Understood : TACIT
6
Aftereffect : SCAR
10
Culmination : ACME
14
Size of type : AGATE
15
Account : TALE
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Australian hut : MIAM
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Kind of pole : TOTEM
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Common Latin abbr. : ETAL
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Home for Nanook : IGLU
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Turkish leader : AGA
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Certain pets : PERSIANCATS
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Quiescent : LATENT
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French city : TOURS
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Earth deposit : LOESS
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News items : OBITS
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Makes a baseball putout : TAGS
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Stabilizers, for short : GYROS
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Oriental tea : CHA
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Like the seventh series game : CRUCIAL
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" ... turn deserves ___" : ANOTHER
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Expend : USE
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Doctrine : CREED
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Atmosphere: Prefix : AERI
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Yields : CEDES
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Light wood : BALSA
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U.S. hymnist : DOANE
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Investigation : SEARCH
51
Home for a Southern governor : AUSTINTEXAS
53
P.I. tree : IBA
56
School V.I.P. : PRIN
57
"Then there were ___" : NONE
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Against a thing, in law : INREM
60
Space : AREA
61
Czech river : EGER
62
In want : NEEDY
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Field cover, for short : TARP
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Prolonged, in music: Abbr. : SOST
65
Lets up : EASES
Down
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So long! : TATA
2
Keyed up : AGOG
3
Library-user's aid : CATALOGUE
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Follower: Suffix : ITE
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Appeals to : TEMPTS
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Severe : STERN
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Rubber mouse, e.g. : CATSTOY
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Russian range : ALAI
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Narrative : RELATION
10
___ curiae : AMICUS
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Prop for Groucho : CIGAR
12
Fountain drinks : MALTS
13
Large birds : EMUS
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After dees : EES
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Untrue : NOTSO
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Old World tree : AESC
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Porsena : LARS
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Thin nail : BRAD
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Fort Worth campus : TCU
31
Kind of club : GLEE
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Wonderland cat et al. : CHESHIRES
33
Wife of Zeus : HERA
34
Onassis : ARI
36
Early tribe of Britons : ICENI
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French forest : ARDENNES
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After-bath item : TALC
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Early ascetics : ESSENES
44
Doze : CATNAP
45
Cote sound : BAA
46
Poison gas : ARSINE
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Grain sorghum : DURRA
48
Willow : OSIER
50
Put forth : EXERT
51
___ on the back : APAT
52
Lunch-counter order : TOGO
54
Adam ___ : BEDE
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Miss Vanderbilt et al. : AMYS
59
Teachers' org. : NEA

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

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