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Betty Jorgensen
Betty Jorgensen

New York Times, Friday, January 20, 1989

19-Across : Indian coin

Author:
Betty Jorgensen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Betty Jorgensen has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 8 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,318
Across
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Homophone for classifieds : ADZE
5
Help a hood : ABET
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Bitterly pungent : ACRID
14
King who named his country after himself : SAUD
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Lake, in poesy : MERE
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Snap : PHOTO
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Homophone for I'll : ISLE
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___ fixe, on a French menu : PRIX
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Indian coin : RUPEE
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Start of a joke : AHUNGERSTRIKER
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Notable period : ERA
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Benevolent brothers' animal : ELK
25
Esoteric : ARCANE
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Sing Sing, e.g. : PEN
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"Three men in ___" : ATUB
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Dolphins' home : MIAMI
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Father : SIRE
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Suffix for Bronx : ITE
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More of the joke : ISGAININGWEIGHT
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Respectable grade : CEE
43
Crazy ___ (card game) : OTTO
44
Bodies of knowledge : LORES
45
Goofs : ERRS
47
Modern: Prefix : NEO
48
Napa Valley company : WINERY
49
Gray general : LEE
51
Homophone for a classic car : RIO
52
End of the joke : HEEATSFASTFOOD
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Stein's "Three ___" : LIVES
61
Leftovers entree : HASH
62
Columnist Bombeck : ERMA
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Maven : ADEPT
64
Greek flask : OLPE
65
Stiff collar : ETON
66
French patron saint: Var. : DENYS
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Yields, in a way : PAYS
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Homophone for order to a fly : SHOE
Down
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Largest land mass : ASIA
2
Frustrate : DASH
3
Signal word for the last letter : ZULU
4
Where a man was ribbed : EDEN
5
Current measure : AMPERE
6
He had catching statements : BERRA
7
Mythical pome pitcher : ERIS
8
Short passage of Scripture : TEXT
9
Carman's "___ Airs" : APRIL
10
Kind of boot : CHUKKA
11
Espadrille-sole feature : ROPE
12
Caesar's concourse : ITER
13
Homophone for moolah : DOE
21
Tutelary deities : GENII
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Subscribe again : RENEW
25
Priestly shawl : AMICE
26
An early one is healthy, wealthy. etc. : RISER
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Laker, e.g. : CAGER
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Doctors' org. : AMA
29
Mottled : PINTO
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Therefore : ERGO
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Big cat, to Mimi : TIGRE
33
King Arthur's sire : UTHER
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"Heavens" girl : BETSY
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Lot, e.g. : SITE
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Piece for an ennead : NONET
40
He wrote "The Waste Land" : ELIOT
41
Charged particle : ION
46
An admirer of Snow White : SLEEPY
48
Horses in an iffy proverb : WISHES
50
Shrine Bowl teams : EASTS
51
Grating : RASPY
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Homophone for Jekyll's alter ego : HIDE
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Tied : EVEN
54
Boutique : SHOP
55
Famous pooch : FALA
56
Lawyers' charges : FEES
57
Straight: Comb. form : ORTH
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Melville opus : OMOO
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Homophone for condescend : DANE
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"A Shropshire ___": Housman : LAD

Answer summary:
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