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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Friday, July 29, 1977

5-Down : ___ up (wear one's Sunday best)

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.49, Missing: { F J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 22.0
Dorothea E. Shipp has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,212
Across
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Baseball, football, etc. : SPORTS
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Fit; suitable : PROPER
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Eared seal : SEALION
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Caused air to bubble through : AERATED
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"A ___ to India": Forster : PASSAGE
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Maneuver in a horse show : PASSADE
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Blackbird, in Bonn : AMSEL
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Victorian oath : EGAD
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Pornography : SMUT
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Nothing, in Nice : RIEN
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Make a cartoon : DRAW
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Free from frost : DEICE
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House extension : ELL
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Stagger : REEL
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Loewe's Broadway partner : LERNER
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Come down : DESCEND
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Sword for thrusting : RAPIER
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Vision: Comb. form : OPIA
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Wellington studied here : ETON
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Most docile : TAMEST
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Gobi and Nefud : DESERTS
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Easy to understand : SIMPLE
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"Graf ___," battleship of 1939 : SPEE
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"Got you!" : AHA
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Horne et al. : LENAS
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French D-Day city : CAEN
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Adjective suffix : ETIC
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Burrows and Vigoda : ABES
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Bara role : VAMP
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Canadian physician: 1849–1919 : OSLER
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Oberammergau's ___ play : PASSION
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Kind of resistance : PASSIVE
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One of Einstein's fortes : SCIENCE
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Monastics of yore : ESSENES
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Premier of Iraq: 1958–63 : KASSEM
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Colossus site : RHODES
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Nautical unit of distance : SEAMILE
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Large numbers; groups : PASSELS
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Noted Norwegian composer : OLSEN
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Money in Iran : RIAL
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___ up (wear one's Sunday best) : TOG
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Made a mockery of : SNEEREDAT
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Fruit or tree : PAPAW
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What illiterates can't do : READ
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Conjunctions : ORS
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Relating to songbirds : PASSERINE
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Cotton fabric : ETAMINE
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Weight-watching person : REDUCER
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Showed clemency : SPARED
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Hinder : DETER
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Sal of songdom : GAL
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Actress Darcel : DENISE
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Oust from a high office : DEPOSE
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Drives back : REPELS
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Triangular sail : LATEEN
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Necessities for mariners : COMPASSES
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Cayenne : REDPEPPER
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Curtain-draping device : TIEBACK
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Loss of memory : AMNESIA
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Rope on a sailor's ladder : RATLINE
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There is no honor among them : THIEVES
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Coronations, in Paris : SACRES
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Cuffs : SLAPS
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Houston or Ervin : SAM
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Cave ___ (Beware of the dog) : CANEM
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Chariot for Ben-Hur : ESSED
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Viva ___ (oral) : VOCE
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___ buco (Italian veal dish) : OSSO
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Carter's supporters in '76 : INS
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Wood for baseball bats : ASH

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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