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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Friday, February 6, 1981

37-Down : Most satisfactory

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 43, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, 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.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,413
Across
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Pull Pauline off the tracks : RESCUE
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Ancient galley : BIREME
13
Small spaces : AREOLAE
15
Andiron : FIREDOG
16
"___, the Light Brigade!" : FORWARD
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Like some lights : LEADING
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Tic-___-toe : TAC
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Largest land in Africa : SUDAN
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Mel or Ed of baseball : OTT
22
Bank of the Tiberis : RIPA
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Part of an archipelago : CAY
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Suffix with president : IAL
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Vinegar: Prefix : ACET
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Did featherstitching : SEWED
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Theater part : LOGE
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Bat boys : MASCOTS
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Did a lexicographer's job : DEFINED
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Sacred mountain of China : HWA
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Alley Oop's kingdom : MOO
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Seconds : MOMENTS
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A Celtic language : CORNISH
44
Armadillo : APAR
45
Lawgiver : SOLON
47
Widgeon : SMEE
48
Home of the Braves: Abbr. : ATL
49
___ a plea : COP
50
Part of a schooner : SPAR
51
Org. for peers on piers : ILA
53
Events in a mad, mad, mad world : RIOTS
55
Fruit found in a hedgerow : HAW
56
Mental deficiency : AMENTIA
58
Enclosed : INCASED
61
Marsh plant : CATTAIL
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Not so refined : COARSER
63
Dinsmore and Janis : ELSIES
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Angus and Hereford : BREEDS
Down
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Few who did much for many : RAF
2
Some Ovidian works : EROTICA
3
Sonorans' shawls : SERAPES
4
Brief TV plug for a minor sponsor : COWCATCHER
5
Gums, to an M.D. : ULA
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What walls have, proverbially : EARS
7
Très ___ : BIEN
8
Levin or Allen : IRA
9
Fix over : REDO
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Bulldog, for one : EDITION
11
Composite picture : MONTAGE
12
Shampoo additive : EGG
14
Infers : EDUCES
15
Censured severely : FLAYED
20
Nursery-rhyme name : DAW
22
___ Jam, rock group : RAM
25
Was winning : LED
27
Office copies, for short : STATS
28
"Paradise Lost" figure : DEMON
29
Goodly part : LIONSSHARE
31
Have : OWN
33
Pro : FOR
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Bleat : MAA
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Most satisfactory : OPTIMAL
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"With ___ aforethought," croquet shark's slogan? : MALLETS
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Friendly : SOCIAL
40
Egypt's ___ Church : COPTIC
41
Deadlock : IMPASSE
42
Shore sight : SEAWEED
43
Pronoun : HER
46
Looby-___, children's game : LOO
52
Prefix for body or type : ANTI
53
Journalist Jacob August: 1849-1914 : RIIS
54
One with a nose in the air : SNOB
56
___ in the hole : ACE
57
To. in Dundee : TAE
59
Lucrative Japanese product : CAR
60
G.P.'s : DRS

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

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