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Martha J. DeWitt
Martha J. DeWitt

New York Times, Thursday, February 8, 1990

Author:
Martha J. DeWitt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F J K Q U Y Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 48.2
Martha J. DeWitt has 72 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,702
Across
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Marshal Dillon : MATT
5
Large clam : GAPER
10
Imogene, the comedienne : COCA
14
Jewish month : ADAR
15
Basel's river : RHINE
16
Pequod's skipper : AHAB
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Aggies from College Station : TEXASAANDM
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Choler : BILE
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U.C.L.A. Bruins, e.g. : ELEVEN
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English refreshment shops : TEAROOMS
23
Takes umbrage : RESENTS
25
Pritikin et al. : DIETS
26
Is outscored : LOSES
28
Okla. homesteader : NESTER
31
Faux pas : BONER
34
Eminent : NOTED
36
A cause of grayness : AGE
37
Breslau's river : ODER
38
Describing compacted hay : BALED
39
Bandleader Kenton : STAN
40
At present : NOW
41
Climbing pepper : BETEL
42
Disburse : SPEND
43
Abalones : ORMERS
45
Challenger : DARER
47
Egresses : EXITS
49
Call on again : REVISIT
53
Genus of passerine birds : SAXICOLA
56
World Series M.V.P.: 1972 : TENACE
57
Actor Jannings : EMIL
58
Huskies from Seattle : WASHINGTON
60
Murine creatures : MICE
61
Upper air : ETHER
62
German article : EINE
63
Wedding vows : IDOS
64
Plow man : DEERE
65
Take ten : REST
Down
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Pater's partner : MATER
2
One of the Astaires : ADELE
3
Levies : TAXES
4
Tourist : TRAVELER
5
___ Tomb, in N.Y.C. : GRANTS
6
Eureka! : AHA
7
Two cups : PINT
8
Over : ENDED
9
Stayed : REMAINED
10
They "talk only to God" : CABOTS
11
Big Ten team : OHIOSTATE
12
Unexcited : CALM
13
Lincoln and Ribicoff : ABES
18
Mister, in Mexico : SENOR
22
Bamboolike grass : REED
24
French Upper House : SENAT
27
Did a cobbler's job : SOLED
29
First Alaskan governor : EGAN
30
Pull apart : REND
31
Palm Springs mayor : BONO
32
Skunk's protection : ODOR
33
Lobos from Las Cruces : NEWMEXICO
35
Weblike : TELAR
38
Conferred, as an endowment : BESTOWED
39
Kind of spaniel : SPRINGER
41
___-a-brac : BRIC
42
Number against Thebes : SEVEN
44
Banishes : EXILES
46
Call it a day : RETIRE
48
Old-time schoolroom adjunct : SLATE
50
French composer : SATIE
51
Religious images : ICONS
52
Dogma : TENET
53
Prefix with circle : SEMI
54
At the center of : AMID
55
Former Davis Cup figure : ASHE
59
"And I Love ___," Beatles song : HER

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

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