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Martha J. DeWitt
Martha J. DeWitt

New York Times, Tuesday, March 9, 1993

Author:
Martha J. DeWitt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.84, Missing: { Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Grid flow: 22.0
Martha J. DeWitt has 72 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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R
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,827
Across
1
Money in Mashhad : RIAL
5
Indian king or prince : RAJAH
10
October birthstone : OPAL
14
Cuxhaven's river : ELBE
15
Omit : ELIDE
16
Reek : FUME
17
Describing earners of 23 Across : BLUECOLLAR
19
Cleaving tool : FROE
20
Pitcher Drabek is one : ASTRO
21
Hosts : TREATERS
23
Certain compensation : WAGES
26
Where a Met may meet a Met : SHEA
27
Atlas contents : MAPS
31
Angry color : RED
32
Sault ___ Marie : STE
33
Try to equal : EMULATE
35
Lighthouse light : BEACON
38
Ebbs : RECEDES
39
Kind of eclipse : ANNULAR
41
Obelisk : NEEDLE
42
College town in Va. : RADFORD
43
Power: Lat. : VIS
44
Put down at bridge : SET
45
Titles for friars : FRAS
46
"We've ___ had!" : BEEN
48
Toot : SPREE
50
Sight at Fenway Park : BALLGAME
52
Surface for painters : GESSO
57
Anne Nichols hero : ABIE
58
61
Soaks flax : RETS
62
Mary Ann Evans : ELIOT
63
Tip : HINT
64
Tavern taps : ALES
65
Forecasters : SEERS
66
Aware of a hoax : ONTO
Down
1
Singer McEntire : REBA
2
Misfortunes : ILLS
3
Touch upon, as property : ABUT
4
Stage villain's look : LEER
5
Antique car : REO
6
Wholly : ALL
7
Left at the altar : JILTED
8
Jewish months : ADARS
9
Roll-call reply : HERE
10
Extemporaneously : OFFTHECUFF
11
Vichyssoise, e.g. : PUREE
12
Hebrew law interpreter of yore : AMORA
13
Dross : LEES
18
Intimidate : COW
22
Take ___ (get off the fence) : ASTAND
24
Soviet workers' collectives : ARTELS
25
Simpletons : GEESE
27
Debussy's "La ___" : MER
28
Kind of corner : AMEN
29
Dark purple : PUCE
30
Describing a vest : SLEEVELESS
32
Where the V.P. is a V.I.P. : SENATE
34
Action for calculating people? : ADDING
35
More open to view : BARER
36
Swan genus : OLOR
37
Honshu city : NARA
40
Hwys. : RDS
44
Coined money : SPECIE
46
Scene of noisy confusion : BABEL
47
Crème de la crème : ELITE
48
One's umbrella? : SMILE
49
Kind of trip : EGO
50
Actress Theda : BARA
51
Tarzan's friends : APES
53
Resound : ECHO
54
Peel : SKIN
55
Made ecstatic : SENT
56
Sarge's dog : OTTO
59
Old Hebrew measure : KOR
60
TD's give these : PTS

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