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Evelyn Benshoof
Evelyn Benshoof

New York Times, Monday, March 25, 1985

Author:
Evelyn Benshoof
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Grid flow: 33.3 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry. Grid has duplicate clues.
Evelyn Benshoof has 71 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,921
Across
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Easy fly ball : POPUP
6
Tiff : SPAT
10
Battle : FRAY
14
Rub out : ERASE
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A first name in whodunits : ERLE
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Midler film, with "The" : ROSE
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Carl Lewis is one : RACER
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"___ creature was ... " : NOTA
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"Belvedere of Sicily" : ENNA
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Generous : ALTRUISTIC
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German dam : EDER
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Jerk-test joint : KNEE
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Escorts : USHERS
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Docked, as hair : BOBBED
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___ magna, prelate's vestment : CAPPA
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Heraldic band : ORLE
33
Poufs' kin : RATS
35
"What's in ___?" : ANAME
39
Amble : SAUNTER
41
Edwin Moses is one : HURDLER
43
Show contempt : SNEER
44
Unsettled : OPEN
46
Zest : ELAN
47
Not so many : FEWER
49
Until this time : TODATE
51
Folly : BETISE
54
Pathological suffix : OSIS
56
With, in Paris : AVEC
57
Generous : BIGHEARTED
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Mechanical repetition : ROTE
64
Adriatic wind : BORA
65
Musical-scale inventor : GUIDO
66
Moon crater : OKEN
67
Catchall abbr. : ETAL
68
Join : ENTER
69
Grouse house : NEST
70
Spouse of a knight : DAME
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Pitiless : STONY
Down
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Pisan's pear : PERA
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Nuncupative : ORAL
3
Covenant : PACT
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Addict : USER
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Wig of yore : PERUKE
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Sound judgment : SENSE
7
Screen or shield : PROTECT
8
Choir voices : ALTI
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Spode item : TEACUP
10
Generous : FREEHANDED
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Heavy-stroked script : RONDE
12
Actor from Kansas City : ASNER
13
"The ___ at the spring": Browning : YEARS
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French department or river : INDRE
25
Bandy words : SPAR
26
Office bigwig : BOSS
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Algerian seaport : ORAN
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Cerulean : BLUE
29
Generous : BENEFICENT
31
Court star in the 70's : ASHE
34
Indonesian island group : AROE
36
Actress Nazimova : ALLA
37
Gist : MEAT
38
Petrel's cousin : ERNE
40
___ bien : TRES
42
Free : UNTIE
45
Plan : PROGRAM
48
Like a water shrew's feet : WEBBED
50
Orange and Indian : OSAGES
51
Rank below viscount : BARON
52
Call forth : EVOKE
53
Huguenots' heads : TETES
55
Cleavable rock : SHALE
58
Smallest Greek letter : IOTA
59
Peewee : RUNT
60
Yugoslav hero : TITO
61
Original sin site : EDEN
62
Sturdy boat : DORY

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