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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Monday, January 30, 1978

6-Down : Crones

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F Q U }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 58, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Dorothea E. Shipp has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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J
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A
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C
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K
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S
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H
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E
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A
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M
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A
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N
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N
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A
G
R
I
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H
A
T
S
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O
N
I
O
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N
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M
O
O
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L
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G
H
T
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S
O
N
A
T
A
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O
D
O
R
S
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E
E
N
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G
A
P
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L
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I
N
E
A
R
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R
E
S
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T
A
T
E
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O
V
E
R
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I
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N
S
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H
I
R
E
R
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T
Y
R
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M
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I
N
I
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M
I
L
A
D
Y
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M
O
O
N
S
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T
O
N
E
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P
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E
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L
I
O
N
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E
R
N
E
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S
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P
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A
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A
C
O
R
N
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H
I
E
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S
K
E
W
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N
O
T
A
B
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L
E
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M
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E
N
I
A
L
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A
T
I
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E
E
R
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L
I
M
E
N
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M
O
O
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N
A
N
D
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S
I
X
P
E
N
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C
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E
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A
N
N
A
M
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E
T
R
E
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Z
E
R
O
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E
S
T
S
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D
E
A
R
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E
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,397
Across
1
Car necessity : JACK
5
Neighbor of La Guardia : SHEA
9
Educator or novelist : MANN
13
Fields, to Fabius : AGRI
14
Bowlers and pillboxes : HATS
15
Tear jerker : ONION
17
Part of Beethoven's "Opus 27" : MOONLIGHTSONATA
20
Aromas : ODORS
21
Poetic time : EEN
22
Lacuna : GAP
23
Kind of measurement : LINEAR
25
Say it again : RESTATE
27
Having a surplus : OVER
28
The electees : INS
30
Personnel chief : HIRER
31
Son of Odin : TYR
32
Bus or skirt : MINI
34
Woman of fashion : MILADY
35
Gem in a Wilkie Collins novel : MOONSTONE
37
Ossa's burden : PELION
40
Lake in Ireland : ERNE
41
Hot Springs or Saratoga : SPA
44
Squirrel's morsel : ACORN
45
Hurry : HIE
46
Twist : SKEW
47
Striking : NOTABLE
49
Domestic servant : MENIAL
51
When many meet for lunch : ATI
52
Suffix with auction and profit : EER
53
Threshold, to a psychologist : LIMEN
54
Maugham novel, with "The" : MOONANDSIXPENCE
59
Part of Vietnam : ANNAM
60
French verb : ETRE
61
Memorable Mostel : ZERO
62
Superlative endings : ESTS
63
Steep : DEAR
64
Sister of Ares : ERIS
Down
1
Rush-hour phenomenon : JAM
2
Past : AGO
3
Crosby in the late 20's : CROONER
4
Not so mean : KINDER
5
Bake, as eggs : SHIRR
6
Crones : HAGS
7
Numerical suffix : ETH
8
Kin of goldenrods : ASTERS
9
"Mountain dew" : MOONSHINE
10
Rutledge : ANN
11
Any overwhelming flood : NIAGARA
12
Used symbols, as in a musical score : NOTATED
16
Table linen : NAPERY
18
Mauna ___ : LOA
19
Bishopric : SEE
23
He had a salty wife : LOT
24
Clinger of a sort : IVY
26
Tessera : TILE
28
Traveler's stopover : INN
29
Japanese-American : NISEI
32
Night lights : MOONBEAMS
33
One of Plato's 35 dialogues : ION
34
"___ Dieu!" : MON
35
"The wonderful star" : MIRA
36
Three, in Torino : TRE
37
Hat made from jipijapa leaves : PANAMA
38
Ecological transition area : ECOTONE
39
"With ___ of love": Winchell sign-off : LOTIONS
41
His pelf comes from pelts : SKINNER
42
Nut or hen : PEA
43
Cobbler's tool : AWL
45
Participated in a roundup : HERDED
46
Hay-fever symptom : SNEEZE
48
Author Deighton : LEN
49
Sociable person : MIXER
50
Ruler: Abbr. : EMP
53
Fountain of Trevi coin : LIRA
55
King Cole : NAT
56
___ Anne de Beaupré : STE
57
Dernier ___ : CRI
58
Dawn goddess : EOS

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

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