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Shirley Soloway
Shirley Soloway

New York Times, Wednesday, April 17, 1985

Author:
Shirley Soloway
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: 270 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 36.4
Shirley Soloway has 34 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,944
Across
1
Watch of a sort : TABS
5
Eastern cape : COD
8
Algerian port : ORAN
12
"How now! ___?": Hamlet : ARAT
13
Satan : DEVIL
15
Quote : CITE
16
Like Godiva : BARE
17
Ecole student : ELEVE
18
Taj Mahal site : AGRA
19
Lessee's lessee : UNDERTENANT
22
"Heaven was ___ help ... ": Crabbe : HER
23
Malevolent looks : LEERS
24
Samples : TASTES
26
Canadian metropolis : CALGARY
29
Salamanders : NEWTS
30
Alaskan islander : ALEUT
31
Shortly : SOON
33
And others: Lat. abbr. : ETAL
36
Bulgarian capital : SOFIA
37
"All About ___" : EVE
38
Froth : SPUME
39
New Zealand river : HUTT
40
Performing mammal : SEAL
41
Impish : ELFIN
42
Forced into court : HALED
44
Chianti containers : CARAFES
46
Altruistic person : SHARER
48
Ox or sheep : BOVID
49
Poetic time : EEN
50
Act that may wreck a watch : OVERWINDING
55
___ mecum (handbook) : VADE
57
Inventor Howe : ELIAS
58
Hebrew month : ELUL
59
Level : EVEN
60
Of certain bones: Comb. form : SACRO
61
Cause dander to rise : RILE
62
Jerk : NERD
63
Sparks or Beatty : NED
64
Store event : SALE
Down
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Freud's "Totem und ___" : TABU
2
Ireland's ___ Islands : ARAN
3
Avon great : BARD
4
Instrument for a rock star : STEELGUITAR
5
A condiment : CELERYSEED
6
Pizzeria needs : OVENS
7
Sutherland, for one : DIVA
8
Wood sorrel : OCA
9
Wolfe book, with "The" : RIGHTSTUFF
10
Up ___ (trapped) : ATREE
11
Comes close : NEARS
13
Sidetrack : DETER
14
Pre-Easter adjective : LENTEN
20
"Giant" ranch : REATA
21
Marble : TAW
25
Roofers' gear : STEPLADDERS
26
Specie : CASH
27
Baseball's Matty : ALOU
28
Southpaw : LEFTHANDER
29
"Private Lives" playwright : NOELCOWARD
32
Basis for Ovid's omelet : OVA
34
Friend of Jeanne : AMIE
35
Camera eye : LENS
38
Canary's kin : SERIN
40
Tends : SERVES
43
Zodiacal sign : LEO
45
Warning, for Juan : AVISO
46
A natural at Reno : SEVEN
47
Ho's partner : HEAVE
48
Comedienne Fanny : BRICE
51
Vivacity : ELAN
52
Pelvic bones : ILIA
53
Invalid : NULL
54
Kind of club : GLEE
56
Terminus : END

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

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