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New York Times, Monday, June 6, 1983

20-Across : Early woman activist

Author:
Whitten
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 27.4
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,263
Across
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Five-time Presidential candidate : DEBS
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Tonsure area : SCALP
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Newspaper notice, for short : OBIT
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Beehive State : UTAH
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Similar: Comb. form : HOMEO
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Appraise : RATE
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Female: Suffix : ETTE
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Muse of lyric poetry : ERATO
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Sometime verb at nuptials : OBEY
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Early woman activist : SUSANBANTHONY
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Mare's offspring : FOAL
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Ponselle and Bonheur : ROSAS
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A bread spread : JAM
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Birth announcement : ITSABOY
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N.Y.C. subway : IRT
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Locations : AREAS
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Fairy queen : MAB
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W.W. II battle site : STLO
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W.W. II symbolic heroine : ROSIETHERIVETER
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Corrosion : RUST
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Poetic contraction : EEN
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Woman of song : IRENE
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Compass pt. : ESE
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Photographer : LENSMAN
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"The Lady in ___" : RED
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Thick : DENSE
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Hankering : ITCH
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Contemporary woman activist : GLORIASTEINEM
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Brainstorm : IDEA
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"___ with Judy," old radio program : ADATE
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A hardy cabbage : KALE
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Wagon : CART
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Folkways : MORES
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Satanic : EVIL
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To be, to Balbus : ESSE
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On guard : ALERT
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Prize at an S.R.O. show : SEAT
Down
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Fees of a sort : DUES
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Famous penultimate words : ETTU
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Have ___ in the belfry : BATS
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Bundle : SHEAF
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Month after Tebet : SHEBAT
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Jewelry items : CORALS
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" ... ___ with seven wives" : AMAN
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Latvian : LETT
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Make light of : POOH
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Maine college town : ORONO
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Relief for Mom and Dad : BABYSITTER
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Suffix with Wisconsin : ITE
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"Brat Farrar" author : TEY
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Din : NOISE
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Suffix with prohibit : ORY
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Dahl or Francis : ARLENE
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Used a warehouse : STORED
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Shook : JARRED
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Incite : AROUSE
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Heralds, at times : MESSENGERS
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Orison finales : AMENS
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Exclude : BAR
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Sash : OBI
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Small island : AIT
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Sun. talk : SER
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Golf-bag item : TEE
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Chanticleer's mate : HEN
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Lombardi of gridiron fame : VINCE
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Zodiacal sign : LEO
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"___ Roberts" : MISTER
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Bear witness : ATTEST
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List of candidates : SLATE
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Outings on foot : HIKES
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An incarnation of Vishnu : RAMA
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Hero : IDOL
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Swiss river : AARE
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Church part : NAVE
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Lamb's pen name : ELIA
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Thaw : MELT
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Diamonds, to yeggs : ICE
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"___ Kapital" : DAS

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