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Evelyn Benshoof
Evelyn Benshoof

New York Times, Thursday, September 18, 1975

Author:
Evelyn Benshoof
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { B J M Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 32.4
Evelyn Benshoof has 71 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,532
Across
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Sound of surprise : GASP
5
Non-religious one : PAGAN
10
Weight : HEFT
14
King ___ : LEAR
15
" ... as cheaply ___" : ASONE
16
Norwegian port : OSLO
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Kind of clandestine sale : UNDERTHECOUNTER
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Structures : EDIFICES
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Down and out : NEEDY
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Ohs, in Germany : ACHS
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Goddess of hope : SPES
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Easily remembered : CATCHY
28
Knitters' output : SWEATERS
32
Century plant : ALOE
33
Excited states : SNITS
34
New-math unit : SET
35
Ignore deliberately : CLOSEONESEYESTO
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S.R.O. offering : HIT
40
Penitent ones : RUERS
41
Leap or lunar : YEAR
42
Increased : ENHANCED
44
Coat with flour : DREDGE
46
Annealing oven : LEHR
47
Lecturer's place : DAIS
48
"Les Misérables" setting : PARIS
51
Furnish with new apparel : RECLOTHE
55
Ignore obliquely : LOOKTHEOTHERWAY
58
Stake : ANTE
59
Uncertain : ATSEA
60
Home of the Dail : EIRE
61
Certain votes : YEAS
62
Attends : HEARS
63
Pentagram : STAR
Down
1
Adhesive : GLUE
2
Railway-car extremity : AEND
3
Persian poet : SADI
4
Literary preliminaries : PREFACES
5
Uneven, as fog banks : PATCHY
6
Timber trees : ASHES
7
Departs : GOES
8
Very old: Abbr. : ANC
9
Recent: Prefix : NEO
10
Word with injun : HONEST
11
Italian town : ESTE
12
Absconded : FLED
13
Conservative : TORY
18
Productive : RICH
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Nervous : UNEASY
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Kind of cheese : SWISS
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Sneaky ___ : PETE
25
Hiding place : CACHE
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Spent : ALLIN
27
Sweet or wisdom : TOOTH
28
Edgar Bergen puppet : SNERD
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Ancient chariot : ESSED
30
Put on a new label : RETAG
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Department or chain : STORE
33
Haughty look : SNEER
36
Novelist Poole : ERNEST
37
Painful cry : OUCH
38
Junky yards, etc. : EYESORES
43
Look-___ (doubles) : ALIKES
44
Russian villas : DACHAS
45
Pique : RILE
47
Hinder : DETER
48
Lay a wager : PLAY
49
Excellent : AONE
50
List : ROTA
51
Italian painter Salvator : ROSA
52
Reproach : TWIT
53
___-kiri : HARA
54
One looking on : EYER
56
Exclamation : HAH
57
Season in Reims : ETE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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