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Shirley Soloway
Shirley Soloway

New York Times, Monday, March 10, 1986

Author:
Shirley Soloway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 35.7
Shirley Soloway has 34 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,271
Across
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One ___ time : ATA
4
Blow one's own horn : BOAST
9
Words of comprehension : ISEE
13
Island dance : HULA
15
Kukla's pal : OLLIE
16
Agile : SPRY
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Egyptian symbol : ATEN
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Life stories, for short : BIOGS
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Golda of Israel : MEIR
20
Region of Pa. : BUCKSCOUNTY
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Born : NEE
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Debussy heroine : LIA
25
Place : STEAD
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Peters and Flack : ROBERTAS
32
Opens a bottle : UNCAPS
35
Extreme : ACUTE
36
Spill the beans : BLAB
38
Dark : EBON
39
Between tic and toe : TAC
40
Economized : SCRAPED
43
G.I.'s haven : USO
44
Actress Sommer : ELKE
46
Unappealing feeling : HATE
47
Right-hand page : RECTO
49
Jeanne, e.g. : SAINTE
51
Lined : STREAKED
53
Approaches : NEARS
55
Former Mideast gp. : UAR
56
Table part : LEG
58
Solo tap dance : BUCKANDWING
64
Between siete and nueve : OCHO
66
Lures : BAITS
67
Prefix with graph : IDEO
68
Jordanian, e.g. : ARAB
69
___ ease (uncomfortable) : ILLAT
70
Richard from Philadelphia : GERE
71
Autumn blooms, for short : MUMS
72
Poem segment : CANTO
73
Call for help : SOS
Down
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Seventh king of Israel : AHAB
2
Nobelist for Peace: 1984 : TUTU
3
A Waugh : ALEC
4
Lynx's kin : BOBCAT
5
Potpourri : OLIO
6
Baseball's Matty : ALOU
7
Roadside sights : SIGNS
8
Laboratory implement : TESTTUBE
9
Dogma : ISM
10
Derby winner: 1985 : SPENDABUCK
11
U.S. canal : ERIE
12
"Jane ___" : EYRE
14
Short sock : ANKLET
21
Begets : SIRES
22
Urge : YEN
26
Card or pilot : ACE
27
Judges : RATES
28
Fla. city : OCALA
29
British palace : BUCKINGHAM
30
Steinbeck temptress : ABRA
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"Abbie an' ___" : SLATS
33
French mail : POSTE
34
Hair covering : SNOOD
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In ___ (sulking) : APET
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Angellike : CHERUBIC
42
Terror : DREAD
45
Abilene-to-Fort Worth dir. : ENE
48
Insect : EARWIG
50
Folder extension : TAB
52
Totals, as a bill : RUNSTO
54
La ___, Milan's opera house : SCALA
56
Good earth : LOAM
57
Shade of tan : ECRU
59
Oast : KILN
60
Rat-___ : ATAT
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March 15 : IDES
62
Pianist Peter : NERO
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Porter's "Anything ___" : GOES
65
Lexicographer's abbr. : OBS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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