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Marjorie Pedersen
Marjorie Pedersen

New York Times, Friday, October 14, 1988

25-Across : Bally's trailer

Author:
Marjorie Pedersen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Marjorie Pedersen has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,220
Across
1
Cardinals or Orioles : TEAM
5
Warning signal : BEEP
9
A false god : BAAL
13
Summoned to court : HALED
15
Play opener : ACTI
16
Jamaican citrus fruit : UGLI
17
Domical domicile : IGLOO
18
Put to flight : ROUT
19
Corner : TREE
20
Wild onion : CROWGARLIC
22
Scottish goblet : TASS
23
"Hazel" cartoonist : KEY
24
Kind of club : GLEE
25
Bally's trailer : HOO
27
Carillon : PEAL
28
Loewe's lyrical partner : LERNER
31
Waned : EBBED
34
Ancestor : FOREBEAR
36
Monitor lizard : URAN
37
Tosses : FLIPS
39
Yen : URGE
40
Ankle-high overshoe : RAINBOOT
42
Up to now : ASYET
43
Sri Lanka, once : CEYLON
44
Swearword : OATH
46
Bro. or sis. : REL
47
Painter ___-Tadema : ALMA
48
Sal of songdom : GAL
51
Corrida charger : TORO
54
Honeysuckle's kin : SHEEPBERRY
57
All right : OKAY
58
Glen Gray's ___ Loma Orchestra : CASA
59
San Antonio memorial : ALAMO
60
Ex-manager of the Phillies : ELIA
61
"Thanks ___!" : ALOT
62
Weighed down : LADEN
63
Island of Alaska : DALL
64
St. Symmachus, for one : POPE
65
N.J. hoopsters : NETS
Down
1
Dense : THICK
2
Bore : EAGRE
3
Pewter or brass : ALLOY
4
Garfield's cry : MEOW
5
"Beer ___ Polka" : BARREL
6
School, in Savoie : ECOLE
7
Small case : ETUI
8
Small ones have big ears : PITCHERS
9
Wild licorice : BUTTONBUSH
10
Mogul Empire capital: 1566 : AGRA
11
Malt products : ALES
12
Falsehoods : LIES
14
Unrelenting : DOGGED
21
C.S.A. state : ALA
26
Scandinavian coin : ORE
27
European mint : PENNYROYAL
28
Trim off : LOP
29
Weird : EERY
30
Fad : RAGE
31
A cont. : EUR
32
Bric-a-___ : BRAC
33
French gulf or berry : BAIE
34
Healthy : FIT
35
Soak flax : RET
37
Writing-paper size : FOOLSCAP
38
Nol of Cambodia : LON
41
Caen crop : BLE
42
Kettledrum : ATABAL
44
___ of quinine : OLEATE
45
Elec. unit : AMP
47
Fabulist : AESOP
48
Teacher's decision : GRADE
49
Crusader's helmet : ARMET
50
Chicago suburb : LYONS
51
___ the mark (behaved) : TOED
52
Neighbor of Ark. and Tex. : OKLA
53
Balustrade : RAIL
55
Aureole : HALO
56
Verve : ELAN

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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