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Martha J. DeWitt
Martha J. DeWitt

"Bah! Humbug!"

New York Times, Sunday, December 18, 1983

Author:
Martha J. De Witt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 142, Blocks: 70, Avg Word Len: 5.23, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 575 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 127, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 32.1 Grid has duplicate clues.
Martha J. DeWitt has 72 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Martha J. De Witt is an alias for Martha J. DeWitt.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,458
Across
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Stack : HEAP
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S.F.B., the inventor : MORSE
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Impofo : ELAND
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Octagonal sign : STOP
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Maumee Bay feeder : ERIE
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He wrote "The Hollow Men" : ELIOT
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Of the cheek : MALAR
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Buzzy place : HIVE
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Nonsense : BALDERDASH
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Nonsense : BILGEWATER
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Piths : ESSENCES
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Complete : EVERY
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Recoil : SHRINK
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Suffix with hip or tip : STER
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Foxx : REDD
33
Placebo : SOP
34
Walking on air : ELATED
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Gibes : JEERS
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Pug's vulnerability : GLASSJAW
44
Having rounded projections : LOBAR
45
Its capital is Khartoum : SUDAN
46
Wearying time : SIEGE
47
Opposite of dep. : ARR
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Jeune fille : GIRL
49
Nonsense : FIDDLEDEDEE
51
Shelter: Fr. : ABRI
52
Southern constellation : ARA
53
Not bright or clean : DINGY
54
Tots : ADDS
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Euphoniums, e.g. : TUBAS
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What a weak battery needs : RECHARGE
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Wine variety : TOKAY
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Enthusiastic : ARDENT
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___ Semple McPherson : AIMEE
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Apollyon : SATAN
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___ obscure (chiaroscuro) : CLAIR
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Dipped out : LADLED
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Metric measure of capacity : LITER
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Put a tail on : SHADOWED
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Menilites, e.g. : OPALS
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Andrews from Miss. : DANA
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Goggle : STARE
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Wood sorrel : OCA
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Spiny-finned fish : GOBY
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Nonsense : GIMCRACKERY
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Acidity : ACOR
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Drop a fly : ERR
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Simile or metaphor : TROPE
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Kind of cow : DAIRY
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Tarsus : ANKLE
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Sci-fi movie : STARWARS
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Sudra, for one : CASTE
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Entreated : PRAYED
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German article : EIN
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Hoover and Roosevelt : DAMS
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One means of travel : FEET
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Post again : RESEND
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Compendious : TERSE
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Possible victim of xenophobia : NEWCOMER
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Nonsense : APPLESAUCE
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Nonsense : TRIVIALITY
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Players, in the cat's absence : MICE
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"Like it ___!" : ORNOT
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Dogma : TENET
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Toward the center : INTO
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Part of U.S.N.A. : ACAD
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Comes close : NEARS
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Tinker's target : EVERS
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Medical subj. : ANAT
Down
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Ganymede's predecessor : HEBE
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Time periods : ERAS
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Is not in the pink : AILS
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Hero's spot : PEDESTAL
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Yosemite river : MERCED
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Senior : OLDER
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U.S. radio station in Berlin : RIAS
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Mayday's cousin : SOS
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Delicate : ETHEREAL
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Fixes firmly : EMBEDS
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Scotch landowner : LAIRD
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Confederate : ALLY
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Carp : NAG
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Horse-training art : DRESSAGE
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Sings above true pitch : SHARPS
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Monkey, marmoset or tree : TITI
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Pizzeria's sine qua non : OVEN
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Freshen, with "up" : PERK
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Put in a ledger : ENTER
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Sayers's "___ Body?" : WHOSE
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Early sci-fi author : VERNE
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"Pomp and Circumstance" composer : ELGAR
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Nantes's river : LOIRE
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Nonsense : ABRACADABRA
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Deem : JUDGE
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Nelson, the singer : EDDY
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Lightheaded : GIDDY
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Cobb and Marvin : LEES
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Nonsense : JABBERWOCKY
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Island off Scotland : ARRAN
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Carpus : WRIST
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Char : SINGE
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Kind of chair : SEDAN
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Lit : FIRED
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Senegal's capital : DAKAR
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Complement of video : AUDIO
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"South Pacific" group : DAMES
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Kind of mark or wind : TRADE
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Having grades : HILLY
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Medieval invader of eastern Europe : TATAR
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Suffix with Capri : OTE
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Wing-shaped : ALARY
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Subsequently : SINCE
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Cautious : CHARY
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Theater sections : LOGES
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Opposite of "to starboard" : APORT
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Illuminators : LAMPS
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Cordwood measure : STERE
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College, in Calais : ECOLE
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Belled the cat : DARED
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Fashion name : DIOR
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Part of a revue : SKIT
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Enos, to Adam : GRANDSON
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Smith and Bede : ADAMS
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Tape holder : CASSETTE
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Asiatic Turkey : ANATOLIA
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Package security : TWINE
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Betel palm : ARECA
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Staggered : REELED
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Proofreaders' marks : CARETS
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Phoebes : PEWITS
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Ornamental scheme : DECOR
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Temperature over 98.6 degrees : FEVER
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Hindu hero : RAMA
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Monumental : EPIC
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Humane org. : SPCA
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Kind of sandwich : TUNA
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Number of inches in a span : NINE
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Where H.H.H. lived : MINN
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Cartoonist Hulme : ETTA
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Indian peasant : RYOT
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"Chances ___," Mathis hit : ARE
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Preacher, familiarly : REV

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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