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Dorothy Smitonick
Dorothy Smitonick

New York Times, Wednesday, September 14, 1983

Author:
Dorothy Smitonick
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Dorothy Smitonick has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,363
Across
1
Lighter : BARGE
6
Person of few words : CLAM
10
Starbuck on the Pequod : MATE
14
Peer : EQUAL
15
Air: Comb. form : AERI
16
Gardenia's asset : ODOR
17
Toppers : SUNBONNETS
19
Ebro and Mayo : RIOS
20
Name ___ (ID) : TAG
21
Match : PAIR
22
Spiny plant : NETTLE
24
Starts off at Doral : TEES
25
Musical ending : CODA
26
Skiers' conveyances : TBARS
28
Mexican hat-dance item : SOMBRERO
32
Grangers' abodes : FARMS
33
Auspicious : RIPE
34
Signal on a screen : BLIP
35
Buckeye State : OHIO
36
Not so rough : FINER
37
Spot for hops : OAST
38
Free electrons : IONS
39
Hardy trees : OAKS
40
Window parts : PANES
41
Some straw hats : LEGHORNS
43
Lyrics on Tin Pan Alley : WORDS
44
Support a scoundrel : ABET
45
Greasy stuff : LARD
46
"___ the Valley" : DOWNIN
49
Sherman, e.g. : TANK
50
Third king of Judah : ASA
53
Emulate Robert Giroux : EDIT
54
Tall silk hats : STOVEPIPES
57
"The Way We ___" : WERE
58
Kappa predecessor : IOTA
59
Entries in an acoount : ITEMS
60
River in Belgium : YSER
61
Composed : COOL
62
Consume Mom's meal : EATIN
Down
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Outwit : BEST
2
Pastel tint : AQUA
3
Step for Jacob : RUNG
4
Yak : GAB
5
Escapists like R. and J. : ELOPERS
6
___ Major or Minor : CANIS
7
Eye lasciviously : LEER
8
Kind of gallery : ART
9
Erroneous epithet : MISNOMER
10
Graduate's cap : MORTARBOARD
11
U.M.W. man's access : ADIT
12
Burin or dibble : TOOL
13
Gaelic : ERSE
18
Bagpipers' refusals : NAES
23
Deg. for a teacher : EDB
24
Burns poem : TAMOSHANTER
25
Manages under stress : COPES
26
Lake on Nevada's border : TAHOE
27
Sell for so much : BRING
28
Scuttles : SINKS
29
An antelope : ELAND
30
Stands up : RISES
31
Elects : OPTS
32
Metallic paper : FOIL
33
Cheerful : RIANT
36
Suitable for public debate : FORENSIC
40
Soft hat : PORKPIE
42
Kimono adjunct : OBI
43
Subside : WANE
45
French name of shame : LAVAL
46
Moist : DEWY
47
Sapphic effusions : ODES
48
Circus prop : WIRE
49
Dog gone to Oz : TOTO
50
In ___ (piqued) : APET
51
Prefix with tone : SEMI
52
Org. : ASSN
55
"This ___ shall pass" : TOO
56
Call ___ day : ITA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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