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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Wednesday, April 26, 1978

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { H J W X Z }, Scrabble score: 249 (avg 1.32)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 13.7
Dorothea E. Shipp has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,483
Across
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Cap worn with a kilt : TAM
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Pillar serving as a monument : STELA
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Tourist's necessity : MAP
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Mr. Guthrie : ARLO
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Former N.C. Senator : ERVIN
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Somewhat salty inland sea : ARAL
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Obsolescent farm personnel : DAIRYMAIDS
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Dover fish : SOLE
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Type of tape : VIDEO
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Wares: Abbr. : MDSE
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This seeks an ans. : QUES
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Alfonso's queen : ENA
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Hardy cabbage : KALE
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Yanks out of the sack : ROUSTS
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Bobbing bird of balladry : REDROBIN
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Look after : SEETO
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Joshua, for one : TREE
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Toronto's prov. : ONT
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"Come into the ___, Maud" : GARDEN
33
Fatigue : TIRE
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Antitoxins : SERA
36
Donkey tempter : CARROT
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A.B.A. member : ATT
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Spinner in a studio : DISC
44
Where Bernhardt brightened the stage: 1867 : ODEON
45
Poetic line : TRIMETER
47
Craggy; austere : RUGGED
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Monkey or tree : TITI
50
Suffix for Annam : ESE
51
Cattle-breeding people near Lake Albert : ALUR
52
Author Bagnold : ENID
54
Direction from Granada to Madrid : NORTE
56
Two followers of tra : LALA
57
What E.R.P. provided : FOREIGNAID
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Boer town : STAD
60
Upright : ONEND
61
Austria's first chartered city: 1212 : ENNS
62
Rather than : ERE
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Wren's "Beau ___" : GESTE
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___ glance (quickly) : ATA
Down
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Racing-stable man : TRAINER
2
Part of a surveying instrument : ALIDADE
3
Additional : MORE
4
Religious inst. : SEM
5
British streetcar : TRAMLINE
6
Obvious : EVIDENT
7
Covers : LIDS
8
Goose genus : ANSER
9
Where Romeo met Juliet : MASQUERADE
10
Excited : AROUSED
11
Artist's adjunct : PALETTE
12
Refer : ADVERT
15
Textbook segment : LESSON
17
Lennon's wife : YOKO
24
Cancel a launching : ABORT
26
Glacial ridges : OSAR
28
Moving backward : RETROGRADE
32
Jokester's post-gag query : GETIT
34
Bulwer-Lytton heroine : IONE
35
Loud : STRIDENT
36
Builders of atolls : CORALS
37
Flatter excessively : ADULATE
38
Military career man : REGULAR
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Decks out : ATTIRES
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Repetitive : ITERANT
42
Lyrical form : SESTINA
43
Beliefs : CREEDS
46
Vase or dynasty : MING
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Remove condensed moisture : DEFOG
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"And then there were ___" : NONE
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Draft status : ONEA
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Fish or suffix : IDE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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