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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Wednesday, November 27, 1974

32-Across : Example of 17 Across

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7 Grid has duplicate clues.
Dorothea E. Shipp has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,237
Across
1
Musical pieces : DUETS
6
Rodeo item : LASSO
11
Word of disgust : UGH
14
Arrow poison : URARI
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Relative of onyx : AGATE
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Born: Fr. : NEE
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Havana fan : CIGARSMOKER
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Pinch : NAB
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Australian gum tree : KARI
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Doctrine : TENET
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March creature : HARE
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Like frozen peas : SHELLED
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Traffic sound : TOOT
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Play by ___ : EAR
28
Act of uniting : JOINTURE
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Example of 17 Across : GEORGEBURNS
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Sinking-ship quitter : RAT
37
Writer Kingsley : AMIS
38
Oklahoma city : ADA
39
Swiss river : AARE
40
Rubbing oil: Abbr. : LIN
41
Example of 17 Across : ORSONWELLES
45
Main and hardened : ARTERIES
47
Slippery one : EEL
48
Con ___ (with spirit) : MOTO
49
Ship-gangway handrail : MANROPE
53
Church corner : AMEN
55
Dravidian language : TAMIL
58
Annoys : IRES
59
Word with trash or ash : CAN
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Example of 17 Across : JACKKLUGMAN
62
Derby of stovepipe : HAT
63
Type of angle : ACUTE
64
Pronoun : THESE
65
Letter : ESS
66
Facing a glacier : STOSS
67
Beings, in France : ETRES
Down
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Drakes' companions : DUCKS
2
Mr. Heep : URIAH
3
Tidal bore : EAGRE
4
Some homes : TRAILERS
5
Winston or Walter : SIR
6
Disabled : LAMED
7
Literary conflict : AGON
8
Drink on the Ginza : SAKE
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Polish port : STETTIN
10
Poetic contraction : OER
11
Artificial : UNNATURAL
12
High or low : GEAR
13
Goddess of youth : HEBE
18
Cubic measure : STERE
22
Potato or tamale : HOT
24
Jet ___ : LAG
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Cricket position : ONS
28
Systems of self-defense : JUDOS
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Algerian port : ORAN
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Excellent : RARE
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Gallic summers : ETES
32
Celebration : GALA
33
Moslem title : EMIR
34
Salves : OINTMENTS
35
Ignoble : BASE
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O.K. : ALLRIGHT
41
Scrap : ORT
42
Something often read : RIOTACT
43
Southerner's pronoun : WEALL
44
Even, to poets : EEN
46
Long time : EON
49
Wallace and Douglas : MIKES
50
Abalone : ORMER
51
"___ porridge hot" : PEASE
52
Early laborers : ESNES
53
Head or tooth : ACHE
54
Rotterdam's river : MAAS
56
Sharpen: Lat. : ACUO
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Stores: Abbr. : MKTS
60
Madison or Thurber, for short : JAS
61
Indian of West : UTE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 6 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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