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Martha J. DeWitt
Martha J. DeWitt

New York Times, Saturday, September 5, 1987

3-Down : Hot goods

Author:
Martha J. DeWitt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F V W Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Martha J. DeWitt has 72 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,815
Across
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Whitten's "A Killing ___": 1983 : PACE
5
Concede : ADMIT
10
Compressed mass : CAKE
14
Footless : APOD
15
French city : LYONS
16
"Ain't She Sweet?" composer : AGER
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Impart : LEND
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Pleas : ENTREATIES
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Destroy completely : EXTIRPATE
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Its capital is 15 Across : RHONE
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Gains : REAPS
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Fall to : DINE
26
Youth org. : BSA
28
Nips in pubs : TOTS
30
Kind of horse hoe : NIDGET
34
Variety of oak : ROBLE
36
Travel on a circuit : ITINERATE
38
Kirghiz range : ALAI
39
Informal garb : JEANS
40
Latin I word : AMAS
41
Captivations : CONQUESTS
43
Wasn't alert : SLEPT
44
Abide : ENDURE
45
Outline sharply : ETCH
47
Clavis : KEY
48
Japanese receptacle : INRO
50
Originated : AROSE
52
Tolerate : ABIDE
55
Of a Tertiary epoch : PALEOCENE
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Shovelers : BROADBILLS
61
Upolu seaport : APIA
62
Carry on : RANT
63
Fjord : INLET
64
Confined : PENT
65
S African fox : ASSE
66
Rosary units : BEADS
67
He killed Halirrhothius : ARES
Down
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Faint : PALE
2
Zenith : APEX
3
Hot goods : CONTRABAND
4
Fisher or Foy : EDDIE
5
Syrian city : ALEPPO
6
Sequences of sovereigns : DYNASTIES
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A Peace Nobelist: 1946 : MOTT
8
"The Lady ___" : INRED
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Literary monogram : TSE
10
Minster : CATHEDRAL
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Leisure, in Livorno : AGIO
12
Wail, Irish style : KEEN
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An old tongue : ERSE
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Golfer with an army : ARNIE
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Chide : RATE
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Tabard et al. : INNS
26
Two : BRACE
27
Sage : SOLON
29
Predicament : STATE
31
Lady Chatterley's lover, for one : GAMEKEEPER
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Military storehouse : ETAPE
33
Choleric : TESTY
35
Cash : LIQUIDATE
37
Set up : INSTALLED
39
Deride : JEER
42
Buried, in a way : URNED
43
Word to a fly : SHOO
46
Cockscombs : CRESTS
49
Put in one's two cents : OPINE
51
___ Flow : SCAPA
52
Steinbeck temptress : ABRA
53
Diplomat's chapeau ___ : BRAS
54
Charged atoms : IONS
56
___ breve : ALLA
57
Astrodome group : NINE
58
Victuals : EATS
60
Dickey : BIB

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5 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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