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Mary Dorman
Mary Dorman

New York Times, Tuesday, March 5, 1974

43-Across : Concerning

Author:
Mary Dorman
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 253 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Mary Dorman has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 8,970
Across
1
Addiction : HABIT
6
Central points : FOCI
10
Soup or funny : BONE
14
Sound off : ORATE
15
Old coins in England : ORAS
16
Lodged : ALIT
17
Form : GUISE
18
Avoidance of excess : RESTRAINT
20
Lock, stock and barrel : ALL
21
Prickly herbs : TEASELS
23
Letter : VEE
24
Rainy-day asset : NESTEGG
26
Bacchanal's cry : EVOE
28
Slow down : ARREST
31
Moshe Dayan feature : PATCH
34
Lever: Var. : PRISE
36
Poetic contraction : TIS
38
Devoted : TRUE
39
Conceal : VEIL
40
One of the ages : STONE
42
Jumble : MESS
43
Concerning : ASTO
44
Dear one of letters : SIR
45
Incubator sound : CHEEP
47
Sees the world : TOURS
49
Illinois city : PEORIA
51
Puzzled : ASEA
53
Put in a new crop : REPLANT
57
Piercing tool : AWL
59
Sounds of woe : PLAINTS
62
Heart : COR
63
Dieter's concern : WAISTLINE
65
Every, in France : TOUTE
67
___-ran : ALSO
68
Repute : ODOR
69
Western park : ESTES
70
Fictional captain : NEMO
71
Guarded : WARY
72
Pipes : REEDS
Down
1
Navaho dwelling : HOGAN
2
As ___ (generally) : ARULE
3
Kettle handles : BAILS
4
"___ about time!" : ITS
5
Wobbles : TEETERS
6
Search about : FORAGE
7
Iron containers : ORES
8
Example : CASE
9
Tropical fiber : ISTLE
10
Woolly protest : BAA
11
Spanish field sight : OLIVETREE
12
Cat's lucky number : NINE
13
Diminutive suffix : ETTE
19
Invitation letters : RSVP
22
Way out : EGRESS
25
Repairmen of a sort : TAILORS
27
Breakfast fare : OATMEAL
29
Supply : STORE
30
Preserve : TIN
32
Moon crescent : CUSP
33
Men : HES
34
Coin of Cuba : PESO
35
Devotion to ceremony : RITUALISM
37
Whispered item : SECRET
39
Container : VAT
41
Tout's offering : TIP
46
Smart cookie : HIPSTER
48
Clan : SEPT
50
Cantankerous : ORNERY
52
Concede : ALLOW
54
Kind of angle : ACUTE
55
Perceived : NOTED
56
Lock : TRESS
57
Indus River people : AWAN
58
Whip mark : WALE
60
Opera heroine : AIDA
61
Let the cat ___ out : INOR
64
American canals : SOO
66
Full of: Suffix : OSE

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

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