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Dorothy N. Davis
Dorothy N. Davis

New York Times, Wednesday, September 23, 1987

38-Down : Inane

Author:
Dorothy Davis
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 302 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Dorothy N. Davis has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Dorothy Davis is an alias for Dorothy N. Davis.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,833
Across
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Physicist Niels : BOHR
5
Filch : STEAL
10
Noah's eldest : SHEM
14
Plaintive woodwind : OBOE
15
Madrid museum : PRADO
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Helen of Troy's mother : LEDA
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Ind. shoes : MOCS
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Barrel organ : HURDYGURDY
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Grape hyacinth : BLUEBELL
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Water-carved gully : ARROYO
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Welty product : STORY
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Turn a pancake : FLIP
25
Draw breaker for a trophy : CUPTIE
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Careless : SLIPSHOD
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Coral island : ATOLL
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Cheese or chard preceder : SWISS
33
Onassis nickname : ARI
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Oriental staple : RICE
35
Map : CHART
36
___ cat (a ballgame) : ONEO
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Chosen, in Caen : ELU
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Distort : SLANT
39
Capital of Senegal : DAKAR
40
Composer Roger : SESSIONS
42
Dionysian deities : SATYRS
43
Landed : ALIT
44
Walk heavily : CLUMP
45
Incantations : SPELLS
48
Small seeded legumes : PEABEANS
51
Arrogant : HOITYTOITY
53
Wild ox : ANOA
54
First-rate : AONE
55
Fill with joy : ELATE
56
Storage compartments: Abbr. : LKRS
57
Brown songbird : WREN
58
Allude : REFER
59
Ago, in Ayr : SYNE
Down
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Flop : BOMB
2
Ancient Greek coin : OBOL
3
Sleight of hand : HOCUSPOCUS
4
Colonize again : RESETTLE
5
Globe : SPHERE
6
Really : TRULY
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Rank above viscount : EARL
8
Do sums : ADD
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Tory of '76 : LOYALIST
10
Soupy sounds? : SLURPS
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Leander's love : HERO
12
Vortex : EDDY
13
Clinic name of fame : MAYO
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Handles : GRIPS
21
Seethe : BOIL
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Coquette : FLIRT
25
Is solicitous : CARES
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Useful : UTILE
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Cygnets : SWANS
28
Trickery : HANKYPANKY
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" ... that charms ___ or sight": Coleridge : OREAR
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Some Parisian robes : DIORS
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Affected contraction : SHANT
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Covered colonnaded passage : CLOISTER
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Repasts for Dobbin? : OATMEALS
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Inane : SILLY
39
Apply paint crudely : DAUB
41
Bambi's creator : SALTEN
42
David, to Goliath : SLAYER
44
This, to Simone : CETTE
45
"Candida" playwright : SHAW
46
Impoverished : POOR
47
"___ kleine Nachtmusik": Mozart : EINE
48
Edith ___, memorable singer : PIAF
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Norse goddess of fate : NORN
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MS. enc. : SASE
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Bravo's kin : OLE

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3 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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