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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Friday, February 6, 1981

56-Across : Mental deficiency

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 43, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 31.6
Dorothea E. Shipp has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,413
Across
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Pull Pauline off the tracks : RESCUE
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Ancient galley : BIREME
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Small spaces : AREOLAE
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Andiron : FIREDOG
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"___, the Light Brigade!" : FORWARD
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Like some lights : LEADING
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Tic-___-toe : TAC
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Largest land in Africa : SUDAN
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Mel or Ed of baseball : OTT
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Bank of the Tiberis : RIPA
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Part of an archipelago : CAY
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Suffix with president : IAL
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Vinegar: Prefix : ACET
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Did featherstitching : SEWED
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Theater part : LOGE
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Bat boys : MASCOTS
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Did a lexicographer's job : DEFINED
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Sacred mountain of China : HWA
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Alley Oop's kingdom : MOO
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Seconds : MOMENTS
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A Celtic language : CORNISH
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Armadillo : APAR
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Lawgiver : SOLON
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Widgeon : SMEE
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Home of the Braves: Abbr. : ATL
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___ a plea : COP
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Part of a schooner : SPAR
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Org. for peers on piers : ILA
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Events in a mad, mad, mad world : RIOTS
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Fruit found in a hedgerow : HAW
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Mental deficiency : AMENTIA
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Enclosed : INCASED
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Marsh plant : CATTAIL
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Not so refined : COARSER
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Dinsmore and Janis : ELSIES
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Angus and Hereford : BREEDS
Down
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Few who did much for many : RAF
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Some Ovidian works : EROTICA
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Sonorans' shawls : SERAPES
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Brief TV plug for a minor sponsor : COWCATCHER
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Gums, to an M.D. : ULA
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What walls have, proverbially : EARS
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Très ___ : BIEN
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Levin or Allen : IRA
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Fix over : REDO
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Bulldog, for one : EDITION
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Composite picture : MONTAGE
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Shampoo additive : EGG
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Infers : EDUCES
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Censured severely : FLAYED
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Nursery-rhyme name : DAW
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___ Jam, rock group : RAM
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Was winning : LED
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Office copies, for short : STATS
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"Paradise Lost" figure : DEMON
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Goodly part : LIONSSHARE
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Have : OWN
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Pro : FOR
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Bleat : MAA
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Most satisfactory : OPTIMAL
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"With ___ aforethought," croquet shark's slogan? : MALLETS
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Friendly : SOCIAL
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Egypt's ___ Church : COPTIC
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Deadlock : IMPASSE
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Shore sight : SEAWEED
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Pronoun : HER
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Looby-___, children's game : LOO
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Prefix for body or type : ANTI
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Journalist Jacob August: 1849–1914 : RIIS
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One with a nose in the air : SNOB
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___ in the hole : ACE
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To. in Dundee : TAE
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Lucrative Japanese product : CAR
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G.P.'s : DRS

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

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