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Dorothy N. Davis
Dorothy N. Davis

New York Times, Wednesday, September 23, 1987

Author:
Dorothy Davis
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 302 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 33.8
Dorothy N. Davis has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Dorothy Davis is an alias for Dorothy N. Davis.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,833
Across
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Physicist Niels : BOHR
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Filch : STEAL
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Noah's eldest : SHEM
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Plaintive woodwind : OBOE
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Madrid museum : PRADO
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Helen of Troy's mother : LEDA
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Ind. shoes : MOCS
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Barrel organ : HURDYGURDY
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Grape hyacinth : BLUEBELL
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Water-carved gully : ARROYO
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Welty product : STORY
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Turn a pancake : FLIP
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Draw breaker for a trophy : CUPTIE
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Careless : SLIPSHOD
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Coral island : ATOLL
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Cheese or chard preceder : SWISS
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Onassis nickname : ARI
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Oriental staple : RICE
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Map : CHART
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___ cat (a ballgame) : ONEO
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Chosen, in Caen : ELU
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Distort : SLANT
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Capital of Senegal : DAKAR
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Composer Roger : SESSIONS
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Dionysian deities : SATYRS
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Landed : ALIT
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Walk heavily : CLUMP
45
Incantations : SPELLS
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Small seeded legumes : PEABEANS
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Arrogant : HOITYTOITY
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Wild ox : ANOA
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First-rate : AONE
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Fill with joy : ELATE
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Storage compartments: Abbr. : LKRS
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Brown songbird : WREN
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Allude : REFER
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Ago, in Ayr : SYNE
Down
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Flop : BOMB
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Ancient Greek coin : OBOL
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Sleight of hand : HOCUSPOCUS
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Colonize again : RESETTLE
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Globe : SPHERE
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Really : TRULY
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Rank above viscount : EARL
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Do sums : ADD
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Tory of '76 : LOYALIST
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Soupy sounds? : SLURPS
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Leander's love : HERO
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Vortex : EDDY
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Clinic name of fame : MAYO
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Handles : GRIPS
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Seethe : BOIL
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Coquette : FLIRT
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Is solicitous : CARES
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Useful : UTILE
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Cygnets : SWANS
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Trickery : HANKYPANKY
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" ... that charms ___ or sight": Coleridge : OREAR
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Some Parisian robes : DIORS
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Affected contraction : SHANT
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Covered colonnaded passage : CLOISTER
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Repasts for Dobbin? : OATMEALS
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Inane : SILLY
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Apply paint crudely : DAUB
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Bambi's creator : SALTEN
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David, to Goliath : SLAYER
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This, to Simone : CETTE
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"Candida" playwright : SHAW
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Impoverished : POOR
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"___ kleine Nachtmusik": Mozart : EINE
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Edith ___, memorable singer : PIAF
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Norse goddess of fate : NORN
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MS. enc. : SASE
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Bravo's kin : OLE

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3 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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