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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Wednesday, July 20, 1977

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.49, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 22.0
Dorothea E. Shipp has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,203
Across
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Sales aid : SAMPLE
7
Place of worship : TEMPLE
13
Sites : LOCALES
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"Queen of the Himalayas" : EVEREST
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Inflexible : ADAMANT
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Like the hues of early dawn : ROSEATE
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___-Powell, Boy Scouts founder : BADEN
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Pinza's birthplace : ROME
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Maple genus : ACER
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Uncloses, poetically : OPES
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Fiddles badly : SAWS
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Pains' companions : ACHES
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Gypsy : ROM
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Punish, as for speeding : FINE
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Plot : SCHEME
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Fleming's cabal : SPYRING
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Time off for Congress : RECESS
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French celestial being : ANGE
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State to be true : AVER
33
Lines of rocks in the sea : LEDGES
35
Pie or parfait : DESSERT
39
Disavows : DENIES
40
Letter opener : SIRS
41
Formerly called : NEE
42
"M*A*S*H" character : RADAR
43
Blessing : BOON
44
Ms. Kett : ETTA
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Ever and ___ : ANON
46
Throe : PANG
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One of a Dumas trio : ATHOS
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British textile dealers : MERCERS
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Ecstasy : RAPTURE
52
Arms depot : ARSENAL
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Items on a certain blotter : ARRESTS
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Street or seed : SESAME
55
Jumbles : MESSES
Down
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Carbonated drink : SODAPOP
2
West Point : ACADEMY
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Roles for Ball, Lansbury and Russell : MAMES
4
Blueprint : PLAN
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Novelist Deighton : LEN
6
Antagonizes : ESTRANGES
7
Conditions : TERMS
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Bacchanalian cry : EVOE
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My: Fr. : MES
10
They serve up sermons : PREACHERS
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Cary Grant's folks : LEACHES
12
Thinks well of : ESTEEMS
13
Struggles : LABORS
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Succinct : TERSE
20
The "o" in i.o.u. : OWE
23
Scorches : SINGES
24
Entrance : ACCESS
26
Pinkie, e.g. : FINGER
27
England's second-longest river : SEVERN
29
Splendors : RADIANCES
30
Message via air waves : RADIOGRAM
33
Near-ringers, in horseshoes : LEANERS
34
Sanction; approve : ENDORSE
36
Become excitedly delighted : ENTHUSE
37
Lab vessels : RETORTS
38
Combs, in a way : TEASES
39
Product of Coward or Howard : DRAMA
40
Chip, to Jimmy : SON
43
Swiss city : BASLE
44
Major and usher followers : ETTES
46
Nana's vehicle : PRAM
47
Spring mos. : APRS
49
Spanish queen : ENA
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Metrical measure : ARE

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

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