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Martha J. DeWitt
Martha J. DeWitt

New York Times, Thursday, April 27, 1978

Author:
Martha J. DeWitt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 46.4
Martha J. DeWitt has 72 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,484
Across
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Israeli news maker : BEGIN
6
Electric measure : OHM
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Newcastle's nonrequirement : COALS
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Hammed it up : OVERACTED
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Llama's habitat : ANDES
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Misses, in Madrid : SENORITAS
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Egyptian news maker : SADAT
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Having a scalloped edge : CRENATED
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Shipment from Tampa : CIGARS
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Three: Prefix : TRI
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Antique auto : ERSKINE
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Scored with one stroke : ACED
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Recommended : ENDORSED
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Part of a petunia : PETAL
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" ... ___ of sympathy with other men": Emerson : ATIE
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Boise's county : ADA
34
Sang a vibrato : TRILLED
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Like some bulbs : FROSTED
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In the past : AGO
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Like Goya's "Maja" : NUDE
42
Cubic meter : STERE
43
In all truth : HONESTLY
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Device used in winding yarn : REEL
47
Retinue : CORTEGE
49
Guido's highest note : ELA
51
Pulitzer Prize winner: 1923 : MILLAY
54
Deed considered in the Nuremberg trials : WARCRIME
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Lend ___ (listen) : ANEAR
58
Threshing machine : SEPARATOR
59
Wartime riveter : ROSIE
60
Large group of pop music customers : TEENAGERS
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Wooden wisecracker : SNERD
62
What a QB hopes to gain : YDS
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Attack from all sides : BESET
Down
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Pear or its tree : BOSC
2
Turn inside out : EVERT
3
Kind of gap : GENERATION
4
Sarcastic : IRONICAL
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Honshu city : NARA
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Mink's cousin : OTTER
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Oldtime radio adjunct : HEADSET
8
G.P. and surg. : MDS
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Summerhouse : CASINO
10
Catapult or ass : ONAGER
11
Egyptian skink : ADDA
12
King or poet : LEAR
13
Controversial planes : SSTS
15
Mentioned for bravery : CITED
20
Orchard product : CIDER
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Cutler's commodity : KNIFE
25
Building addition : ELL
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Moons : SATELLITES
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Largest dam in Germany : EDER
29
Miami's county : DADE
30
Memphis god : PTAH
31
Hence : ERGO
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Fully developed : ADULT
35
Vestibule, e.g. : ENTRY
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Carbohydrate: Suffix : OSE
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Immigrant's way to get there : STEERAGE
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Woodwaxen : DYEWEED
44
Cream puff's cousin : ECLAIR
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Took off like a jet : SOARED
46
Showed an old film : RERAN
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Yawns : GAPES
50
" ... to form ___ perfect Union" : AMORE
51
Sci-fi site : MARS
52
Hep : INON
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___-majesté : LESE
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Kind of grass or apple : CRAB
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Formerly, old style : ERST
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Swine's confines : STY

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

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