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Betty Jorgensen
Betty Jorgensen

New York Times, Wednesday, July 8, 1987

Author:
Betty Jorgensen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.84, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 31.7 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Betty Jorgensen has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 8 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,756
Across
1
Draft initials : SSS
4
Small Tibetan antelopes : GOAS
8
Famed loner's first name : GRETA
13
Boyer role : PEPE
15
Hillside shelter : ABRI
16
Suffered from ague : AILED
17
Mars, to Plato : ARES
18
Ceremonial act : RITE
19
Appoints : NAMES
20
Dope cop : NARC
21
Did his treasure weigh "seven tons"? : STEVENSON
23
Place for an obi : KIMONO
25
Ancient Asian : MEDE
26
Parasitic growths : FUNGI
28
Depression causer : STRESS
33
High up : ALOFT
36
Essence : ESSE
38
Concert halls : ODEA
39
"Aimless" girl? : MELISSA
41
Her songs don't "cloy one" : CLOONEY
43
Lacking color : PALE
44
Malayan boat : PRAO
46
Rulers of yore : TSARS
47
Clement one : SPARER
49
Condition : STATE
51
Lean to one side : LIST
53
Nomads : ROVERS
57
Author who wore "a warm knit"? : MARKTWAIN
61
Equal : EVEN
62
Night, in Ayr : NICHT
63
Yorkshire river : AIRE
64
Easy gait : LOPE
65
Path starter : OSTEO
66
Caddie-shack bosses : PROS
67
Saline drop : TEAR
68
Surface luster : SHEEN
69
Huguenots' town : SENS
70
A Chaplin : SYD
Down
1
Punish Junior : SPANK
2
Caravansary : SERAI
3
Kind of whale : SPERM
4
Actress wearing a "sarong"? : GARSON
5
A biog. sketch : OBIT
6
Goddess embracing "a mister"? : ARTEMIS
7
The Jumblies' craft : SIEVE
8
Fish-eating bird : GANNET
9
Sea inlets : RIAS
10
Sailors' saint : ELMO
11
Carl Ed's comic-strip hero : TEEN
12
Madison Ave. output : ADS
14
Could this chef be dubbed "Sir Coffee"? : ESCOFFIER
22
Lemon on wheels : EDSEL
24
Famous Bulge reply : NUTS
27
Equip : GEAR
29
A "vote loser"? No! : ROOSEVELT
30
Best or Ferber : EDNA
31
Clairvoyant : SEER
32
States : SAYS
33
Elec. measures : AMPS
34
Kind of year : LEAP
35
Spicy Spanish stew : OLLA
37
Get off ___ free : SCOT
40
Kind of spar : SPRIT
42
Preminger or Kruger : OTTO
45
Dancer who "rates A-1"? : ASTAIRE
48
Md.'s former Gretna Green : ELKTON
50
Actor who encountered "snares" : ARNESS
52
Exchanges : SWAPS
54
Bacchanalian cries : EVOES
55
Compensate : REPAY
56
One of Bergen's "nerds" : SNERD
57
Kind of mash : MISH
58
Deed, in Dijon : ACTE
59
First president of S. Korea : RHEE
60
Press : IRON
62
Our, in Orléans : NOS

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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