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Dorothy Cannan
Dorothy Cannan

New York Times, Thursday, November 27, 1975

14-Across : State: Abbr.

Author:
Dorothy Cannan
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid is asymmetric.
Dorothy Cannan has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,602
Across
1
Jet ___ : LAG
4
Soup : PUREE
9
Purple or measured : PROSE
14
State: Abbr. : ALA
15
Close, to poets : ANEAR
16
Weird : EERIE
17
Famous diners : PILGRIMSETTLERS
20
Begin : STARTOUT
21
Practical : UTILE
22
Lambs : EANS
23
Soft cheese : BRIE
24
Alps : PEAKS
26
Have a breather : TAKEFIVE
30
French cup : TASSE
31
More peeved : SORER
32
French marshal : NEY
33
Gaelic : ERSE
34
Cheerful, in Scotland : CADGY
35
Chaste : PURE
36
Ibsen character : ASE
37
Give the slip to : ELUDE
38
European apples : SORBS
39
Old age : SENILITY
41
Salt trees : ATLES
42
Goose of Hawaii : NENE
43
Baffled : ASEA
44
Hindu pundit : SWAMI
46
Theater job : USHERING
50
Thanksgiving, for one : AMERICANHOLIDAY
52
Relative of 44 Across : GURU
53
Modify : ALTER
54
School period : TERM
55
Word on a proof : STET
56
Sierra ___ : LEONE
57
Tibetan animals : YAKS
Down
1
Circuits : LAPS
2
Landed : ALIT
3
Festival : GALA
4
Share : PARTAKE
5
Western and labor : UNIONS
6
Uncle of fiction : REMUS
7
Direction : EAST
8
Prior to : ERE
9
More nitpicky : PETTIER
10
Kind of sigh often breathed : RELIEF
11
Russian city : OREL
12
Progenitor : SIRE
13
Letters : EES
18
Kind of monkey : GREASE
19
Traditional bird : TURKEY
23
Harbor vessel : BARGE
24
Analyze : PARSE
25
German city : ESSEN
26
Holiday drink : TODDY
27
Harden : INURE
28
Sentence parts : VERBS
29
Watches : EYES
30
Cha and bohea : TEAS
31
Fry : SAUTE
34
Coldly analytic : CLINICAL
35
Quality of opposing powers : POLARITY
37
Fragrant resin : ELEMI
38
Shade of gray : STEEL
40
Getting nowhere : INARUT
41
Beached : ASHORE
43
Pale : ASHEN
44
Plant disease : SMUT
45
Common verb : WERE
46
"Do ___ others ... " : UNTO
47
Whim : IDEA
48
British informer : NARK
49
Sports places : GYMS
50
Legal officials: Abbr. : AGS
51
Stout's relative : ALE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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