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Bette Sue Cohen
Bette Sue Cohen

New York Times, Saturday, September 13, 1980

Author:
Bette Sue Cohen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 41.0
Bette Sue Cohen has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 6 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,267
Across
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Oriental park : PARADISE
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Floors in a maison : ETAGES
15
Gastropod mollusks : ABALONES
16
Noted soprano : KANAWA
17
___ Mountains (Calif. range) : PANAMINT
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Begrudged : ENVIED
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Chi.-to-D.C. direction : ESE
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"On Your ___" : TOES
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Cotton machines : GINS
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Reduces a sail : REEFS
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Adapts machinery for new uses : RETOOLS
28
French-Belgian river : LYS
30
Fits of angry temper : MADS
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Sighting : AIM
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"Haste ___" : MAKESWASTE
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Auld lang ___ : SYNE
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Relative of the turkey trot : ONESTEP
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Soften; disarm : UNSTEEL
42
Cecropia : MOTH
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Outlets for low-priced items : DIMESTORES
45
Myrmecologist's interest : ANT
46
Ten: Comb. form : DECA
47
Slippery critter : EEL
48
Egress : EMANATE
51
Union general : MEADE
55
Composer Khachaturian : ARAM
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Baccalaureate deg. : LITB
58
Yugoslav city : NIS
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Vivacity : SPIRIT
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Gleams faintly : SHIMMERS
64
Block : HINDER
65
Underground activity : SABOTAGE
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Rotary ___ : ENGINE
67
Bags : ENSNARES
Down
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Kind of tiger or wasp : PAPER
2
Humiliate : ABASE
3
Indian noblewoman : RANEE
4
In the manner of : ALA
5
Comic actor DeLuise : DOM
6
Parts of some sigs. : INIT
7
Head of la casa : SENOR
8
Respects : ESTEEMS
9
___ out (supplement) : EKE
10
"La Cumparsita" and "Blue" : TANGOS
11
"___ Chorus" : ANVIL
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One who denies : GAINSAYER
13
Lambs' mas : EWES
14
Elegiac : SAD
21
Phidian creation : STATUE
24
"___ and Fantasy," 1943 film : FLESH
25
Solar or circulatory follower: Abbr. : SYST
27
Danish city : ODENSE
29
Sverige : SWEDEN
32
Arrow poison : INEE
33
Tormé and Brooks : MELS
34
N.Y.C. gallery : MOMA
35
Most prolific auth. : ANON
36
Medical college in Ohio : KETTERING
37
Of the summit : APICAL
38
Mink item : STOLE
41
Check : STEM
44
Contemporary of Mondrian : MATISSE
46
Noted missionary on Molokai : DAMIEN
49
Tuesday, in Paris : MARDI
50
Zeena's spouse in a Wharton book : ETHAN
52
Close by: Poetic : ANEAR
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Threnody : DIRGE
54
Curves : ESSES
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" ... hear ___ drop" : APIN
57
Lobster-meal items : BIBS
59
Pronoun for a ship : SHE
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Three, in Milano : TRE
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"___ Oncle," Tati film : MON
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N.Y.C. transit agency : MTA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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