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Dorothea E. Shipp
Dorothea E. Shipp

New York Times, Friday, August 16, 1991

7-Down : Poetic contraction

Author:
Dorothea E. Shipp
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 1
Dorothea E. Shipp has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,256
Across
1
Author of "The Apostle" : ASCH
5
Guide : STEER
10
Questionnaire, e.g. : FORM
14
Pump or clog : SHOE
15
Ship that took Miss Liberty to the U.S. : IRENE
16
Kind of way : AREA
17
Uproar : HURLYBURLY
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Miserly : NEAR
20
Hard finishes : ENAMELS
21
Burton's "The ___ of Melancholy" : ANATOMY
23
Thames sight : AIT
24
Indian music : RAGA
25
Future G.P. : INTERNE
29
Shipment from Barre : GRANITE
33
Send round the bend : DERANGE
34
MSS. readers : EDS
35
Lead-in to sense or fiction : NON
36
Painter Grabar : IGOR
37
Certain horse : STUD
38
"___ y Plata," Mont. motto : ORO
39
Historical period : ERA
42
Art devotee : ESTHETE
45
Bends an elbow : TIPPLES
47
Formed into a rounded body : SPHERED
48
Depose : OUST
49
Kind of dent? : TRI
50
Potential second-story man : PROWLER
53
End of a Wilde title : EARNEST
58
Skyline Drive offering : VIEW
59
Dawdle : DILLYDALLY
61
"___ Bungay," Wells novel : TONO
62
Fashion designer Simpson : ADELE
63
Bootless : VAIN
64
Stash : STOW
65
Dissociate : SEVER
66
Salinger girl : ESME
Down
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Former court star : ASHE
2
Turn away from : SHUN
3
Mr. Dithers's wife : CORA
4
Steering gear : HELM
5
Brother or sister : SIBLING
6
College president's overseer : TRUSTEE
7
Poetic contraction : EER
8
Blow up : ENLARGE
9
Masefield's "___ the Fox" : REYNARD
10
Chinese gambling game : FANTAN
11
Mount: Comb. form : OREO
12
Clean a pipe : REAM
13
Another book by 1 Across : MARY
18
Pine : YEARN
22
Kahn et al. : AGAS
25
___ card (TV prop) : IDIOT
26
Appolonia Chalupek : NEGRI
27
Boy Scout unit : TROOP
28
Site of semicircular canals : EAR
30
Bury : INTER
31
Hugo's "___ la lyre" : TOUTE
32
Over : ENDED
37
"___ walks in beauty ... " : SHE
39
Jewish month after Av : ELUL
40
Grayish greens : RESEDAS
41
Not sidesaddle : ASTRIDE
42
Actress Getty of TV : ESTELLE
43
Crop duster : SPRAYER
44
Last stop before home : THIRD
46
Informal meeting : POWWOW
50
Sgts.' underlings : PVTS
51
Brilliant display : RIOT
52
Pacific atoll for a sommelier? : OENO
54
Main part of a cathedral : NAVE
55
Greek mil. group in W.W. II : ELAS
56
Svelte : SLIM
57
Daly of TV and Broadway : TYNE
60
Israel's Bar ___ Line : LEV

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