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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Friday, July 17, 1987

36-Down : A Wellington foe

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 45, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F J Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Grid flow: 13.3
Dorothea E. Shipp has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,765
Across
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Cable chaser : CAR
4
Relating to the Leos et al. : PAPAL
9
Hebrew lyre : ASOR
13
Summon to court : HALE
14
Nicolo or Geronimo of Cremona : AMATI
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Certain package : CARE
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Seed covering : ARIL
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Whitewashed : LIMED
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Garbed : CLAD
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Immersed : STEEPED
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Playwright-composer Ivor : NOVELLO
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Beautician's offering : HENNA
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Pierre's brainwaves : IDEES
25
Baobab or gingko : TREE
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Sign of authority : MACE
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Politician Harold : STASSEN
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Lamp rubber : ALADDIN
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Ice, in Bremen : EIS
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Long in the tooth : OLD
39
Beetle : DOR
40
Simple sugar : OSE
41
Property receiver : ALIENEE
43
Lawlessness : ANARCHY
45
Animal fat : LARD
46
Kind of cycle or phone : MEGA
47
He wrote "Danger Is My Business" : CRAIG
50
Suffixes for differ and confer : ENCES
54
Reading desk : LECTERN
57
Chorister's garment : CASSOCK
59
Dissenter : ANTI
60
Wayne type : HEMAN
62
Competent : ABLE
63
Comprehends : SEES
64
Put on cloud nine : ELATE
65
Bird's crop : CRAW
66
Dennis, for one : PEST
67
Let : ALLOW
68
Arabian shrub used for tea : KAT
Down
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Menu : CARTE
2
Strange : ALIEN
3
Softens : RELENTS
4
Picket : PALE
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Surrounded by : AMID
6
Shriver of tennis : PAM
7
Egyptian symbol : ATEN
8
Pool on a liner : LIDO
9
Agreed : ACCEDED
10
Hall : SALLE
11
Fanon : ORALE
12
Paint jobs, often : REDOS
13
Jumble : HASH
20
Ecclesiastic's dwelling : PARSONAGE
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Ecclesiastics' dwellings : VICARAGES
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Sniggler : EELER
27
Over : ENDED
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Palindromic title : MADAM
29
Byrd book : ALONE
30
Weddell or Ross : SEA
31
Sesame : TIL
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"___ was going to ... " : ASI
34
Ward healer : DOC
35
Suffix with boy or girl : ISH
36
A Wellington foe : NEY
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Snob of a sort : ELITIST
44
Loot : RANSACK
47
Piece of jewelry : CLASP
48
Actress Taylor : RENEE
49
Parts of French plays : ACTES
51
Venomous snake : COBRA
52
Brilliance : ECLAT
53
Oblique : SKEW
55
Cassowary's relative : RHEA
56
___ Gwynn : NELL
57
Tragedy by Addison : CATO
58
Once more : ANEW
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___ de mer : MAL

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