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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Friday, March 25, 1988

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J M Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 40.5 Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry.
Dorothea E. Shipp has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,017
Across
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Indian soldier in British army : SEPOY
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Socks and stockings, e.g. : PAIRS
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Iroquois tribe : SENECAS
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Part of the ear : SACCULE
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Chess piece belonging to a member of a fraternal order? : KNIGHTOFPYTHIAS
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Curlicue, perhaps : ESS
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QE2's route : SEALANE
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Certain degree : NTH
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Insect's feeler : PALP
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Kind of board or key : SKATE
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Ease up : BATE
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Big bargain : STEAL
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Compass letters : ENE
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Mosquito or gnat : BITER
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Famed abdicator : EDWARD
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Drenched : SOUSED
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Never, to Wolfgang : NIE
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Camp-site leavings : ASH
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Like most wedding cakes : TIERED
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Small interstice : AREOLE
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Sandy tracts, in England : DENES
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Deal or material preceder : RAW
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Disbursed : SPENT
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Killer whales : ORCS
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One of the legumes : SENNA
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Fill to overflowing : SATE
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Site of the Tell legend : URI
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Parts of flowers : PISTILS
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Isthmus of Thailand : KRA
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Result of an overturned chessboard? : CASTLESINTHEAIR
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Science dealing with pollution : ECOLOGY
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Places for sales : GARAGES
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Wear away : ERODE
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Baptisms, etc. : RITES
Down
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Apprehending : SENSATE
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Isolated : ENISLED
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Cribbage-board item : PEG
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Noted newspaper publisher : OCHS
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Eucalypts : YATES
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"Home, Sweet Home" author : PAYNE
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Part of a Racine play : ACTE
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I, in Hamburg : ICH
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Damage, in Dixie : RUINATE
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Like a blind : SLATTED
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Busy places : SKEPS
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Immersed : SOAKED
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Gushes : SPATES
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A suburb of London : ESHER
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Pastry dessert : FLAN
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Indians holding small chess pieces? : PAWNEES
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Religious men who move diagonally? : BISHOPS
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Dens : LAIRS
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Motor coaches : BUSES
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Female ruff : REE
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Bireme adjunct : OAR
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O'Hara's "From the ___" : TERRACE
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Canine relative : INCISOR
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Showy in attire : DRESSY
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Shade producer : AWNING
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Atomic-plant danger : LEAKAGE
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Vestibules : ENTRIES
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"Irma la ___" : DOUCE
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Against : ANTI
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Niobe's outpouring : TEARS
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Event at Vicksburg: 1862-63 : SIEGE
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Chancel cynosure : ALTAR
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Walk wearily : PLOD
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Indian term of respect : SHRI
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Insurance abbr. : TLO
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Dine : EAT

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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