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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Saturday, October 27, 1979

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 29.7
Dorothea E. Shipp has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,945
Across
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With ___ breath : BATED
6
Mother of Chastity : CHER
10
Peak : ACME
14
Playwright's ploy : ASIDE
15
Pelt : HIDE
16
Way of going : GAIT
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Wallflower : SHRINKINGVIOLET
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Golfers' needs : TEES
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Truly! : INDEED
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Single : ONE
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Donates, à la Carnegie : ENDOWS
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Type of admiral or guard : REAR
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Poet Ogden : NASH
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More down-at-heel : SEEDIER
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Power unit, for short : AMP
35
Saw parts : TEETH
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Hairdo : AFRO
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Rustics ripe for ruses : COUNTRYBUMPKINS
42
German article : EINE
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Helots' medieval kin : ESNES
44
Grade below bee minus : CEE
45
Less zaftig : SLIMMER
48
Gulp of gin : SWIG
50
Anon : SOON
51
Role Flagstad often had : ISOLDE
55
Caesar's "ego," to a Berliner : ICH
57
Attaches : ADDSON
61
Geese, in Grenoble : OIES
62
Silly person : FLIBBERTIGIBBET
65
Result of a speeding ticket : FINE
66
About 2,000 feet of film : REEL
67
Cape ___ Islands : VERDE
68
Form of mental discipline : YOGA
69
Confessor's earful : SINS
70
Remove : ERASE
Down
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Sew loosely : BASTE
2
Pale : ASHEN
3
"Beat" : TIRED
4
Con follower : EDISON
5
Phrontistery : DEN
6
Chew the rag : CHIN
7
Drake's Golden ___ : HIND
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Advantage : EDGE
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Idolize : REVERE
10
Past : AGO
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Relating to heat : CALORIFIC
12
Carriage : MIEN
13
Suffix with Jean or Nan : ETTE
18
Mug : KISSER
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___ fixe : IDEE
24
A teakettle inspired him : WATT
26
Island of the Andreanof group : ADAK
28
Novelist Georgette : HEYER
29
Gives a wide berth to : SHUNS
30
Lightweight champ before Joe Gans : ERNE
31
Multiflora, e.g. : ROSE
32
"Easy ___," old radio favorite : ACES
33
Drudgery : MOIL
34
Like tough jobs : PUNISHING
36
Cookbook abbr. : TBS
39
Nautilus name : NEMO
40
Sound on L.I. Sound : MEWING
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Greek letters : PSIS
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Lot's son : MOAB
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Nobelist in Medicine: 1954 : ENDERS
49
Peanut : GOOBER
52
Scales in the sky : LIBRA
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These outdo words : DEEDS
54
A Lauder : ESTEE
55
Doubtful : IFFY
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Sister of Euterpe : CLIO
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Teutonic trio : DREI
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British carbine : STEN
60
Some landscapes : OILS
63
Lillie or Arthur : BEA
64
"___ Got a Secret" : IVE

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

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