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Martha J. DeWitt
Martha J. DeWitt

New York Times, Thursday, October 1, 1981

Author:
Martha J. DeWitt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 30.5
Martha J. DeWitt has 72 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,650
Across
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Finishing nail : BRAD
5
Disguised prince : FROG
9
Kind of cherry or chestnut : DWARF
14
Rich material : LAME
15
Regan's father : LEAR
16
Epicure, e.g. : EATER
17
Ancient coin : OBOL
18
Family that lost Modena in 1803 : ESTE
19
Beldame : CRONE
20
Reprimand : CALLONTHECARPET
23
Fives and nines, e.g. : TEAMS
24
Miami's county : DADE
25
Of flying: Prefix : AERO
28
Landlord's income : RENTAL
32
Israel's first ambassador to U.S. : ELATH
36
Result of a hole in a molar : ACHE
38
Volume : TOME
39
Write a malicious, destructive critique : DOAHATCHETJOBON
42
Awful : DIRE
43
Señor, in Stuttgart : HERR
44
Dull; slow : INERT
45
Small opening, as on a cactus : AREOLE
47
Merit : EARN
49
Baff the golf ball : LOFT
51
Guam's capital : AGANA
55
Censures : READSTHERIOTACT
61
Get up : ARISE
62
He wrote "Metamorphoses" : OVID
63
Monk parrot : LORO
64
Kind of house : MANOR
65
City of Seven Hills : ROME
66
V.I.P. at Kabul : AMIR
67
Writer Terkel : STUDS
68
___ Islands (part of the Aleutians) : NEAR
69
Left or right, e.g. : SIDE
Down
1
Political alliance : BLOC
2
City on the Bou Regreg : RABAT
3
Soap plant : AMOLE
4
Reese or Street : DELLA
5
Cut blubber from a whale : FLENSE
6
Advice to an energumen : REST
7
Curser's mouthing : OATH
8
One cause of corruption : GREED
9
1971–80, e.g. : DECADE
10
City in Ga. or Mo. : WARRENTON
11
On : ATOP
12
Coty or Clair : RENE
13
Worry : FRET
21
___ Beach, of D-day fame : OMAHA
22
Proofreader's mark : CARET
26
Foot or potato follower : RACE
27
Pigment for Opie : OCHRE
29
Soliloquy starter : TOBE
30
Cupid : AMOR
31
Period after Mardi Gras : LENT
32
Norse heroic song : EDDA
33
European dormouse : LOIR
34
Alpine stream : AARE
35
Emerald Isle : THEOLDSOD
37
Juno's Greek counterpart : HERA
40
Illegal lifting : THEFT
41
Chauvinist : JINGO
46
Proverbial weepers : LOSERS
48
Jim Plunkett is one : RAIDER
50
Rose's seamy side : THORN
52
Great burden-bearer : ATLAS
53
Elimelech's wife : NAOMI
54
Biting : ACRID
55
Eleven in L.A. : RAMS
56
He was: Lat. : ERAT
57
Aborigine of Japan : AINU
58
"Whoopee!" in Pan's parties : EVOE
59
Hudson heroine : RIMA
60
Sped : TORE

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

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