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Dorothy N. Davis
New York Times, Monday, August 9, 1976
25-Down : Old World tree
Author:
D. Davis
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.89, Missing: { F J K Q V W Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 28.0
Dorothy N. Davis has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
D. Davis is an alias for Dorothy N. Davis.
1 T | 2 A | 3 C | 4 I | 5 T | 6 S | 7 C | 8 A | 9 R | 10 A | 11 C | 12 M | 13 E |
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14 A | G | A | T | E | 15 T | A | L | E | 16 M | I | A | M |
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17 T | O | T | E | M | 18 E | T | A | L | 19 I | G | L | U |
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20 A | G | A | 21 P | 22 E | R | S | I | A | 23 N | C | A | T | S |
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24 L | 25 A | T | E | N | T | 26 T | O | U | R | S | ||||
27 L | O | E | S | S | 28 O | 29 B | I | T | S | |||||
30 T | A | G | S | 31 G | Y | R | O | S | 32 C | 33 H | 34 A |
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35 C | R | U | C | 36 I | 37 A | L | 38 A | N | O | 39 T | H | E | R |
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40 U | S | E | 41 C | R | E | 42 E | D | 43 A | E | R | I |
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44 C | E | D | E | S | 45 B | 46 A | L | S | A | |||||
47 D | 48 O | A | N | E | 49 S | 50 E | A | R | C | H | ||||
51 A | U | S | T | I | N | 52 T | E | X | A | S | 53 I | 54 B | 55 A |
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56 P | R | I | N | 57 N | O | N | E | 58 I | 59 N | R | E | M |
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60 A | R | E | A | 61 E | G | E | R | 62 N | E | E | D | Y |
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63 T | A | R | P | 64 S | O | S | T | 65 E | A | S | E | S |
© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,858
Across
1
Understood : TACIT
6
Aftereffect : SCAR
10
Culmination : ACME
14
Size of type : AGATE
15
Account : TALE
16
Australian hut : MIAM
17
Kind of pole : TOTEM
18
Common Latin abbr. : ETAL
19
Home for Nanook : IGLU
20
Turkish leader : AGA
21
Certain pets : PERSIANCATS
24
Quiescent : LATENT
26
French city : TOURS
27
Earth deposit : LOESS
28
News items : OBITS
30
Makes a baseball putout : TAGS
31
Stabilizers, for short : GYROS
32
Oriental tea : CHA
35
Like the seventh series game : CRUCIAL
38
" ... turn deserves ___" : ANOTHER
40
Expend : USE
41
Doctrine : CREED
43
Atmosphere: Prefix : AERI
44
Yields : CEDES
45
Light wood : BALSA
47
U.S. hymnist : DOANE
49
Investigation : SEARCH
51
Home for a Southern governor : AUSTINTEXAS
53
P.I. tree : IBA
56
School V.I.P. : PRIN
57
"Then there were ___" : NONE
58
Against a thing, in law : INREM
60
Space : AREA
61
Czech river : EGER
62
In want : NEEDY
63
Field cover, for short : TARP
64
Prolonged, in music: Abbr. : SOST
65
Lets up : EASES
Down
1
So long! : TATA
2
Keyed up : AGOG
3
Library-user's aid : CATALOGUE
4
Follower: Suffix : ITE
5
Appeals to : TEMPTS
6
Severe : STERN
7
Rubber mouse, e.g. : CATSTOY
8
Russian range : ALAI
9
Narrative : RELATION
10
___ curiae : AMICUS
11
Prop for Groucho : CIGAR
12
Fountain drinks : MALTS
13
Large birds : EMUS
22
After dees : EES
23
Untrue : NOTSO
25
Old World tree : AESC
27
Porsena : LARS
29
Thin nail : BRAD
30
Fort Worth campus : TCU
31
Kind of club : GLEE
32
Wonderland cat et al. : CHESHIRES
33
Wife of Zeus : HERA
34
Onassis : ARI
36
Early tribe of Britons : ICENI
37
French forest : ARDENNES
39
After-bath item : TALC
42
Early ascetics : ESSENES
44
Doze : CATNAP
45
Cote sound : BAA
46
Poison gas : ARSINE
47
Grain sorghum : DURRA
48
Willow : OSIER
50
Put forth : EXERT
51
___ on the back : APAT
52
Lunch-counter order : TOGO
54
Adam ___ : BEDE
55
Miss Vanderbilt et al. : AMYS
59
Teachers' org. : NEA
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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