UGLYBETTY seemed to scream for a puzzle to be made out of the title. PRETTYBOYFLOYD was the second, natural balance thematically but totally different lengths, and the difficult to work with 14 letters. Once I came up with GORGEOUSGEORGE 14 to match I was good to go, as UGLYBETTY at the odd number 9 could go across.
But it seemed a bit light. The challenge rather than scrapping the puzzle was to come up with a fourth, 9 letters, preferably another woman, so it was two men, two women...but it had to be on the spectrum of UGLY, PRETTY, GORGEOUS. The adjective also ad to come first, so PLAINJANE was a godsend.
1 F | 2 L | 3 O | 4 W | 5 I | 6 M | 7 A | 8 C | 9 H | 10 A | 11 D | 12 A | 13 T |
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14 D | I | D | I | 15 S | A | R | A | 16 O | B | E | S | E |
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17 A | M | O | S | 18 O | N | A | N | 19 F | I | C | H | E |
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20 P | R | E | 21 T | T | Y | B | O | 22 Y | F | L | O | Y | D |
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23 G | O | O | 24 S | E | E | M | E | |||||||
25 G | 26 A | 27 L | U | M | P | 28 H | 29 R | A | N | 30 G | 31 I | 32 N |
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33 U | G | L | Y | B | E | T | 34 T | 35 Y | 36 N | E | U | R | O |
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37 E | R | A | 38 S | T | E | E | 39 P | 40 L | A | M |
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41 S | E | M | 42 I | 43 S | 44 P | L | A | I | 45 N | 46 J | A | N | E |
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47 S | E | A | M | E | 48 N | 49 S | L | O | E | G | I | N |
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50 A | C | E | 51 L | 52 A | 53 S | H | E | |||||||
54 G | 55 O | 56 R | G | E | O | U | S | 57 G | E | O | R | 58 G | 59 E | |
60 A | V | O | I | D | 61 S | H | I | N | 62 I | R | I | 63 S |
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64 R | E | U | N | E | 65 T | O | N | E | 66 N | E | R | O |
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67 B | R | E | E | D | 68 Y | E | A | R | 69 G | W | E | N |
Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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