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Shirley Soloway
Shirley Soloway

New York Times, Thursday, January 3, 1985

Author:
Shirley Soloway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 29.8
Shirley Soloway has 34 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,840
Across
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Census fig. : STAT
5
Verb used with thou : DOEST
10
Tiff : SPAT
14
Showed up : CAME
15
Our place : EARTH
16
Singing group : TRIO
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"___ Three Lives": Philbrick : ILED
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Brother, in Brest : FRERE
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Prefix with drome or dynamics : AERO
20
Cheese concoction : FONDUE
22
City in Denmark : ODENSE
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Too unusual for words : INDESCRIBABLE
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Go to bed : RETIRE
28
Gaucho gear : REATA
31
___ Vegas : LAS
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Extinct bird : DODO
35
"The ___ Summer": Kahn : BOYSOF
36
Expletive for Major Hoople : EGAD
38
Designer Oscar de la ___ : RENTA
40
Alcohol additive : SODA
41
Prevents : DETERS
43
Sea bird : ERNE
45
Neither's partner : NOR
46
Chilean port : ARICA
47
P.D.Q. : PRONTO
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Looking backward : RETROSPECTIVE
54
Kind of equation : LINEAR
55
African mammals, for short : RHINOS
56
Datum : FACT
57
Electron tube : DIODE
60
Leave out : OMIT
61
Gem shape : OVAL
62
Table Bay is one : INLET
63
Store event : SALE
64
Depend : RELY
65
Curved moldings : OGEES
66
Ogler : EYER
Down
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Kind of film : SCIFI
2
Claw : TALON
3
Better : AMEND
4
Famed British air marshal : TEDDER
5
Kin of apostates : DEFECTORS
6
Shell item : OAR
7
Prior, in poetry : ERE
8
Type of theatrical light : STROBE
9
Bara of silents : THEDA
10
British noble family : STANLEYS
11
Like some exhibition games : PRESEASON
12
River at Leeds : AIRE
13
As well : TOO
21
Bought before : USED
23
River into the Mediterranean : EBRO
25
Sally of space trips : RIDE
26
Laundry workers : IRONERS
29
Stir : TODO
30
At a distance : AFAR
31
Wife of Tyndareus : LEDA
32
Maturer : AGER
33
Like "Candide" : SATIRICAL
35
Small flags or important knights : BANNERETS
37
In a proper manner : DECENTLY
39
De ___ (superfluous) : TROP
42
___ of exchange : RATE
44
Imprint : ETCH
47
Pre-exam activity : PORING
48
Futile : OTIOSE
50
Medium for "The Answer Man" : RADIO
51
"Seven Days ___," 1964 film : INMAY
52
Sheer fabric : VOILE
53
Fragrant compound : ESTER
54
Wash : LAVE
56
"Tea ___ Two," Youmans song : FOR
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Matador's encouragement : OLE
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Actor Billy ___ Williams : DEE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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