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Mary Cee Whitten
Mary Cee Whitten

New York Times, Wednesday, September 25, 1985

6-Down : Bigwig in Qatar

Author:
Mary C. Whitten
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 46, Avg Word Len: 4.71, Missing: { J V X }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 55, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 28.1
Mary Cee Whitten has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Mary C. Whitten is an alias for Mary Cee Whitten.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,105
Across
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High-level melody : ARIA
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Monster: Comb. form : TERAT
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Half the title of a musical : IDO
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Five, in Issy : CINQ
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M. Zola : EMILE
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"Deutschland ___ Alles" : UBER
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Old-lace shade : ECRU
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Kermit's co-star? : PIGINAPOKE
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Actress Norma : SHEARER
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___ dixit : IPSE
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So-so mark : CEE
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Mobuto Sese Seko's land : ZAIRE
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Custard pastries : FLANS
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Hospital apprentice : INTERNE
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Ignore : ELIDE
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Of hearing : OTIC
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"___ pro nobis" : ORA
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Departed, as Dorothy from Kansas? : GONEWITHTHEWIND
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Peeper : EYE
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Great Barrier Island : OTEA
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Magpie of SE Asia : CISSA
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Oilman at times : DRILLER
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Painter Claude : MONET
46
Farsighted ones : SEERS
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Antiquity, to Poe : ELD
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Potter's oven : KILN
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Mischief-maker : GREMLIN
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Shoot at Shakespeare? : FIREATWILL
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Yesterday, in Napoli : IERI
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Harem chambers : ODAS
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Ballerina Jeanmaire : RENEE
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Elsa's mane man? : LION
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Forerunner of ASAP : PDQ
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Sycophants' answers : YESES
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Lovers' ___ : LANE
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Oners at Wimbledon : ACES
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Calorie-laden : RICH
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Concerning : INRE
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Billy Rose production : AQUACADE
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Prairie dwellings : TEPEES
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Bigwig in Qatar : EMIR
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Fix : RIG
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Bandleader Bardu ___ : ALI
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"___ lords a-leaping" : TEN
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Nigerian group : IBOS
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NASA's Slayton : DEKE
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Pay dirt : ORE
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Berth type : UPPER
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Leeds's river : AIRE
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Magazine-insert exhortation : RENEW
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Multistringed instruments : ZITHERS
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Ekberg or Bryant : ANITA
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Scratch causer : ITCH
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Pretty Boy ___ of gangland : FLOYD
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QE2, e.g. : LINER
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Library no-no : NOISE
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Lubitsch of films : ERNST
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Actress Julie : EGE
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Beaver's playmate : OTTER
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Nabokov novel : ADA
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Captive of Hercules : IOLE
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Molière's "___ des Maris" : ECOLE
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Target for Quixote : WINDMILL
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British ___ : ISLES
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Musical Horne : LENA
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Oberon and Haggard : MERLES
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Nefarious captain : KIDD
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Baghdad's land : IRAQ
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Mirth : GLEE
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Princess Organa in "Star Wars" : LEIA
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What Mr. America pumps : IRON
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Padres or Pirates : NINE
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Dandy : FOP
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Essay : TRY
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Like Willie Winkie : WEE
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Movers and shakers : INS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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