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Bette Sue Cohen
Bette Sue Cohen

New York Times, Wednesday, May 13, 1987

Author:
Bette Sue Cohen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 29.0
Bette Sue Cohen has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 6 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,700
Across
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Corpsman : MEDIC
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Post : MAIL
10
Bad actors : HAMS
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Kind of coffee : IRISH
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Director of "The Four Seasons" : ALDA
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Stalin biographer : ULAM
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College lounge : COMMONROOM
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What grooms groom : MANE
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Compass dir. : ESE
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Talk wildly : RANT
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A weasel : ERMINE
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Clock : TIME
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Opposed : ANTI
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Oscar winner in 1956 : MALONE
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Lobsters have them : ANTENNAE
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"And sat beneath ___ tree ... ": I. Krylov : ALIME
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Excavation : MINE
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Judy Garland, née ___ : GUMM
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Bang : SLAM
37
Aped : MIMED
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Derby part : BRIM
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Makarova award: 1983 : TONY
40
Holm oak : ILEX
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Prospect : VISTA
42
Enveloped : SWADDLED
44
Harry and Hugh : CAREYS
45
"Against All ___," 1984 film : ODDS
46
Praise : LAUD
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Fruitless : BARREN
50
Intention : GOAL
51
Period : ERA
54
Possible sky sightings : UFOS
55
Swiss cheese : EMMENTALER
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Lansbury Broadway role : MAME
59
Bering and Caspian : SEAS
60
Irish patriot : EMMET
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Victim : PREY
62
Without : SANS
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Vacuum tube : DIODE
Down
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Victims of the farmer's wife : MICE
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Psyche's beloved : EROS
3
Type of novel : DIME
4
Doctrine : ISM
5
Pony, perhaps : CHORINE
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French river : MARNE
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What "little things mean" : ALOT
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Response to a J.P. : IDO
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Deplored : LAMENTED
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Swift's relative : HUMMINGBIRD
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Turkish regiment : ALAI
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Author of "The Magic Mountain" : MANN
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A foe of Pan : SMEE
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Designate : NAME
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Map abbr. : RTE
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Sinatra's boss after James : TOMMYDORSEY
25
Wing : ANNEX
26
Spars : MASTS
27
Let : ALLOW
28
Tropical vine : LIANA
29
Pointed : AIMED
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Hayes's role in "A Farewell to Arms" : NURSE
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Friendship : AMITY
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Lady Hamilton et al. : EMMAS
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Trumpeter Davis : MILES
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" ... ethereal ___, come": Thomson : MILDNESS
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Leapt : VAULTED
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Pres. before J.F.K. : DDE
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"Comes a Horseman" costar : CAAN
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Loamy deposit : LOESS
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Thank-you-ma'am : BUMP
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From a distance : AFAR
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City sacked in 1527 : ROME
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F.B.I. agent : GMAN
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Sailor's patron saint : ELMO
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Movie critic Rex : REED
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Subject of a Puccini aria : ARTE
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"... give ___ torch!": D. H. Lawrence : MEA
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Jacques's friend : AMI

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

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