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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Friday, January 12, 1979

66-Across : Milk snake

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { G J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Dorothea E. Shipp has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Clue for 17-Across is inaccurate — it's Eros's twin brother, Anteros, who's depicted; left as in original.

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F
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B
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D
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K
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D
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,657
Across
1
Beyond the horizon : AFAR
5
Claymore's relative : SABER
10
State : AVER
14
Part of a greenhouse : PANE
15
Raise one's spirits : ELATE
16
Main part of a church : NAVE
17
Piccadilly Circus statue : EROS
18
Famed hostess : MESTA
19
Gin : TRAP
20
Ngaio Marsh's detective : RODERICKALLEYN
23
Tend : SEETO
24
Matelot's milieu : MER
25
Former defense pact : SEATO
29
Ponca City resident : SOONER
33
Harper Valley group : PTA
36
Sontag or orale : CAPE
38
Gallic "Eureka!" : VOILA
39
Sayers's detective : LORDPETERWIMSEY
43
___ Hebrides : OUTER
44
"One Fine Day" is one : ARIA
45
Berlin's "___ a Rag Picker" : HES
46
Compendium : PRECIS
48
Hue was once its capital : ANNAM
51
Aussie mammal : ROO
52
Topper for Elizabeth II : TIARA
56
Doyle's detective : SHERLOCKHOLMES
62
Word with bubble or box : SOAP
63
Sound of the bagpipes : DRONE
64
This makes soreheads sore : LOSS
65
Opposed : ANTI
66
Milk snake : ADDER
67
Lake that sounds mysterious : ERIE
68
Hunt event : MEET
69
Items to count : NOSES
70
Setting for a Valentino scene : TENT
Down
1
Copycats : APERS
2
Denmark's ___ Islands : FAROE
3
Battery part : ANODE
4
Arranges anew : RESETS
5
Prefix with precious or conscious : SEMI
6
Templeton or Guinness : ALEC
7
Sun : BASK
8
Kett of comics : ETTA
9
Kingdoms : REALMS
10
Foyer : ANTEROOM
11
Change : VARY
12
Novelist Hunter : EVAN
13
Ribbed material : REP
21
Teammate of Peewee Reese : ROE
22
Pope in 928 : LEOVI
26
Thrill for Trevino : ACE
27
Familiar farewell : TATA
28
Teatro San Carlo offering : OPERA
30
Yugoslav city : NISH
31
Well-known followers of Robert : ELEE
32
Gamma and violet : RAYS
33
Small splash : PLOP
34
Go on the road : TOUR
35
Comedian Johnson : ARTE
37
Where banshees wail : ERIN
40
Seedy : DECREPIT
41
Monastery inhabitant : PRIOR
42
Languid : WAN
47
Moslem ruler : SOLDAN
49
From ___ Z : ATO
50
Painter of "The Gleaners" : MILLET
53
Subject of a Dean Martin hit song : AMORE
54
Epoxy, e.g. : RESIN
55
Resonance, to an announcer : ASSET
56
Unit of loudness : SONE
57
Odium : HATE
58
Religious list : ORDO
59
Fish : CODS
60
Word with hole or jerk : KNEE
61
Linen marking : HERS
62
Rayburn : SAM

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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