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Shirley Soloway
New York Times, Monday, December 5, 1983
51-Across : Southern Italian folk dance
Author:
Shirley Soloway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Shirley Soloway has 34 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 P | 2 E | 3 A | 4 L | 5 S | 6 G | 7 L | 8 A | 9 D | 10 C | 11 L | 12 O | 13 Y |
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14 A | L | L | O | T | 15 R | A | G | I | 16 L | E | N | A |
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17 C | A | I | R | O | 18 O | P | U | S | 19 E | V | E | N |
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20 E | N | T | E | R | 21 T | A | I | N | S | 22 M | I | N | K |
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23 A | R | T | S | 24 E | 25 M | E | N | D | S |
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26 B | 27 O | 28 D | 29 E | G | A | S | 30 O | R | A | N | ||||
31 A | R | I | S | E | N | 32 A | P | T | I | T | 33 U | 34 D | 35 E |
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36 S | C | A | T | 37 S | 38 A | N | T | A | 39 I | R | E | D |
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40 T | A | L | I | 41 S | M | A | N | 42 T | 43 U | N | I | N | G |
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44 M | E | I | R | 45 F | I | N | E | S | S | E |
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46 A | 47 S | 48 L | A | N | T | 49 P | R | O | S | |||||
50 T | H | A | T | 51 T | 52 A | R | A | N | T | 53 E | 54 L | 55 L | 56 A |
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57 S | A | R | I | 58 E | D | A | M | 59 U | R | I | A | H |
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60 E | R | G | O | 61 R | I | T | E | 62 C | I | R | C | A |
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63 A | D | E | N | 64 S | T | E | R | 65 K | N | E | E | S |
© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,445
Across
1
Sunday morning sounds : PEALS
6
Happy : GLAD
10
Surfeit : CLOY
14
Apportion : ALLOT
15
East Indian grass : RAGI
16
Singer Horne : LENA
17
Egyptian metropolis : CAIRO
18
Literary work : OPUS
19
Level : EVEN
20
Has friends over : ENTERTAINS
22
Fur bearer : MINK
23
Cultural studies : ARTS
24
Corrects : EMENDS
26
Spanish grocery shops : BODEGAS
30
Algerian port : ORAN
31
Up and about : ARISEN
32
Ability : APTITUDE
36
Go away! : SCAT
37
Jolly one in a red suit : SANTA
39
Angered : IRED
40
Magic charm : TALISMAN
42
Key activity : TUNING
44
Golda : MEIR
45
Subtlety : FINESSE
46
Oblique : ASLANT
49
Paid players : PROS
50
This and ___ : THAT
51
Southern Italian folk dance : TARANTELLA
57
Homophone for sorry : SARI
58
Cheese of Holland : EDAM
59
Heep of fiction : URIAH
60
Hence : ERGO
61
Ceremony : RITE
62
About : CIRCA
63
Capital of South Yemen : ADEN
64
Suffix with game or song : STER
65
Genua : KNEES
Down
1
Rate of speed : PACE
2
Vivacity : ELAN
3
Landed : ALIT
4
Learning : LORE
5
Warehouse space : STORAGE
6
Hulled grain : GROATS
7
___ lazuli : LAPIS
8
Berlin's "You Can't Get a Man with ___" : AGUN
9
Treatise : DISSERTATION
10
Wearer of No. 9 shoes : CLEMENTINE
11
Suspense novelist : LEVIN
12
Erect : ONEND
13
Pulls hard : YANKS
21
Parts of telephones : TRANSMITTERS
25
Spring month in Marseille : MAI
26
Strong woody fiber : BAST
27
Whale of a film in 1977? : ORCA
28
TV turner : DIAL
29
Ball-park figure : ESTIMATION
30
Choose : OPT
32
Raggedy ___ : ANN
33
"QB VII" author : URIS
34
Family rooms : DENS
35
Rim : EDGE
38
River of Switzerland : AAR
41
Japanese coin of yore : SEN
43
Loosened : UNSTUCK
45
Art-museum employee : FRAMER
46
Confused : ATSEA
47
Snail's shell : SHARD
48
Big : LARGE
49
Chatter : PRATE
52
Mine entrance : ADIT
53
"___ go bragh" : ERIN
54
Italian currency : LIRE
55
Alençon product : LACE
56
Sounds of discovery : AHAS
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 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.