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S. E. Wilkinson
S. E. Wilkinson

New York Times, Friday, October 28, 1988

53-Across : Palms off

Author:
S. E. Wilkinson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 300 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
S. E. Wilkinson has 16 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,234
Across
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The ___, Dick Tracy adversary : BROW
5
Pencil wood : CEDAR
10
Two-wheeler : BIKE
14
Bonkers : LOCO
15
Port-au-Prince's country : HAITI
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Consumer : USER
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Hemsley sitcom : AMEN
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Prepared for battle : ARMED
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Nil : ZERO
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Part? : HEADLINE
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Bakers' 13's : DOZENS
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"___ and yet so far" : SONEAR
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Cut a way : PLOW
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Cups' lips : RIMS
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Some Impressionist works : RENOIRS
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This may be over your head : HAT
35
Proportion : RATIO
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Bandleader Shaw : ARTIE
38
Switch ending : EROO
40
Actress Talmadge : NORMA
42
Computer fodder : DATA
43
Lehmann or Palmer : LILLI
45
Quick : RAPID
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"___ Lin," Scottish ballad : TAM
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Horse course : PADDOCK
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Jogging gait : TROT
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Four parts : TWOS
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Palms off : FOISTS
57
Merry : JOVIAL
60
Crew? : SHORTCUT
62
Eliot's Bede : ADAM
63
By and by : LATER
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"Grenada" songwriter : LARA
66
Burrowing mammal : MOLE
67
Writer Asimov : ISAAC
68
The original ones were actors : ELKS
69
___ Rabbit : BRER
70
Quarter back? : EAGLE
71
Casement : SASH
Down
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Malaise of a sort : BLAHS
2
Play boy? : ROMEO
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Swell place? : OCEAN
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It's really something : WONDER
5
Usher? : CHAIRMAN
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Make some bread : EARN
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January marcher : DIME
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Tucked away : ATE
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Conundrum : RIDDLE
10
Hum? : BUZZWORD
11
What "video" means : ISEE
12
"Sunny" composer : KERN
13
Cupid : EROS
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Leo's lodge : LAIR
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A Chaplin : OONA
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On time : PROMPT
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Voiceless birds : STORKS
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Leave ___ that : ITAT
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Hayworth or Gam : RITA
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Clothes line? : SEAM
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Lend a hand : HELP
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Met air : ARIA
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Narrated : TOLD
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Author Levin : IRA
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Hourglass? : OLDTIMER
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Wind? : AIRFORCE
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Corn Belt state : IOWA
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Way out : DOOR
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Sheep dog : COLLIE
51
Earl, duke, etc. : TITLES
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Actress Gia : SCALA
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Young ones want changes : TURKS
56
Hide away : STASH
57
Side post : JAMB
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Bouquet : ODOR
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Vocalist Jerry : VALE
60
For men only : STAG
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Restore : HEAL
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Sly ___ fox : ASA

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

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