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Betty Hinman
Betty Hinman

New York Times, Saturday, April 16, 1988

Author:
Betty Hinman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 55.6
Betty Hinman has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,039
Across
1
Primrose place : PATH
5
Newspaper nickname : TRIB
9
Fusses : ADOS
13
Roman she-bear : URSA
14
Actress from N.Y.C. : MEARA
15
___ monster : GILA
16
Like Texas : FLAT
17
Shock : APPAL
18
Secondhand : USED
19
Activity at a midway booth : FORTUNETELLING
22
Gaelic : ERSE
23
This bud's for you, America : ROSE
24
Singer Gordon : MACRAE
27
Tyro : NEOPHYTE
31
Pertaining to space : AREAL
32
Corrida beasts : TOROS
33
Journal : LOG
34
Checkers choice : REDS
35
___ nobis (a writ) : CORAM
36
Correspondent's encl. : SASE
37
Basic yeast acid : RNA
38
Strap reversal : PARTS
39
Blusters : RANTS
40
Resort on Cape Cod : YARMOUTH
42
Learned one : PUNDIT
43
Chums : PALS
44
Three, in Bonn : DREI
45
They have their ups and downs : ROLLERCOASTERS
51
Spanker, e.g. : SAIL
52
Forgo : WAIVE
53
Kin of a cavatina : ARIA
54
First name of 14 Across : ANNE
55
Kind of guard : ARMED
56
Church tribunal : ROTA
57
Panthers' home, for short : PITT
58
Time span : YEAR
59
River in Belgium : YSER
Down
1
Pastry shell : PUFF
2
Woody's son : ARLO
3
Winter Palace resident : TSAR
4
Stormy cape : HATTERAS
5
Crow's home : TEPEE
6
Engrossed : RAPT
7
Of wrath: Lat. : IRAE
8
Radio's "Make Believe ___" : BALLROOM
9
Shaky : AGUISH
10
Calif. tourist attraction : DISNEYLAND
11
Designer Cassini : OLEG
12
Like McCullers's cafe : SAD
14
Parsonage : MANSE
20
Russian flower : URAL
21
Truncates : LOPS
24
Shakespeare's "Indeed!" : MARRY
25
Calgary Corral, e.g. : ARENA
26
Resort near Sandusky : CEDARPOINT
27
Colonel in 1987 news : NORTH
28
You were, to Ovid : ERAS
29
"Serenata" composer : TOSTI
30
Opposite of absorb : EGEST
32
Wrongful act : TORT
35
Overseas Highway feature : CAUSEWAY
36
Hygienic : SANITARY
38
Survey : POLL
39
Tentworts : RUES
41
Type of hammer : MALLET
42
English poet: 1802-39 : PRAED
44
Sole preceder : DOVER
45
Rajah's wife : RANI
46
Hard to find : RARE
47
Dome on the range : CIMA
48
Sexual desire : EROS
49
This can't be wrong : RITE
50
German coal area : SAAR
51
Devitalize : SAP

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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