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Betty Jorgensen
Betty Jorgensen

New York Times, Thursday, April 15, 1993

56-Down : Levin and Eaker

Author:
Betty Jorgensen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { F J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 31.8
Betty Jorgensen has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 8 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,864
Across
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Stylish : CHIC
5
Drop with a thud : PLOP
9
Does one better : TOPS
13
Daft : LOCO
14
Fictional sleuth Vance : PHILO
15
Silver screen's Jannings : EMIL
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Aboveboard : OPEN
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Irks : RILES
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___ Domini : ANNO
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Start of a quip : DIDTSELIOTWRITE
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Fam.-tree twig : REL
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Finnish novelist: 1861-1921 : AHO
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Quip: Part 2 : THATAPRILISTHE
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Key letter : PHI
33
Decorous : STAID
34
Israeli political leader : PERES
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Some M.D.'s specialty : EENT
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Chemical compound : ESTER
39
Black and Red : SEAS
40
Takes the metro : RIDES
42
Dogma : TENET
44
Assuaged hunger : ATE
45
Quip: Part 3 : CRUELLESTMONTH
48
Overly : TOO
49
Onassis nickname : ARI
50
End of the quip : WITHTAXESINMIND
59
Asian range : ALAI
60
Galsworthy's "A Man of ___" : DEVON
61
Soft cheese : BRIE
62
Actor Bruce : DERN
63
Entities : UNITS
64
Do up boots : LACE
65
For men only : STAG
66
Prince Charles's game : POLO
67
Flemish river : YSER
Down
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Bumbling bumpkin : CLOD
2
Native American : HOPI
3
Like summer tea : ICED
4
Nicaraguan rebel : CONTRA
5
Donahue or Silvers : PHIL
6
Caron role : LILI
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Margarine : OLEO
8
Of mail : POSTAL
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Garden beauties : TEAROSES
10
Bus starter : OMNI
11
Pub measure : PINT
12
Gin flavor : SLOE
14
Church dignitary : PRELATE
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Units for Seles : SETS
21
Senate big shot : WHIP
24
Churchill's "___ Finest Hour" : THEIR
25
Follower of the Vedas : HINDU
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Lambaste : PASTE
27
Ceremonies : RITES
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G.I.'s dog tag, e.g. : IDENT
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Administer to : TREAT
30
Erica : HEATH
31
Being : ESSE
32
Kind of mus. instrument : PERC
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Baby's problem : TEETHING
38
Stays : REMAINS
41
Letter drop : SLOT
43
Tattered : TORN
46
Pack the van for travel : LOADUP
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How to jump over a candlestick : NIMBLY
50
Gobs : WADS
51
"___ a Song Go ... " : ILET
52
Home in a 1936 novel : TARA
53
Alien: Comb. form : XENO
54
Turpitude : EVIL
55
"And ___ bed" : SOTO
56
Levin and Eaker : IRAS
57
Riviera resort : NICE
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Antelope's playmate : DEER

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

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