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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Thursday, November 17, 1983

25-Across : Medium for a Churchill message

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,427
Across
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Afternoon TV fare : SOAPS
6
Purse item : COMB
10
Joker : CARD
14
Gallic goodbye : ADIEU
15
"Yes ___?" : ORNO
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Love, to Livia : AMOR
17
Focal point, to Victoria : CENTREOFGRAVITY
20
Krazy feline : KAT
21
Glacial ridge : ESKER
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Cyaxares' subjects : MEDES
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Famous almost-last words : ETTU
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Intend : AIM
25
Medium for a Churchill message : RADIOPROGRAMME
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Beat : PULSE
33
Ex-star on ice : ORR
34
An 1898 discovery : NEON
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"I ___ Camera" : AMA
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Tabloid editor's delight : SCANDAL
40
Inst. at Troy, N.Y. : RPI
41
Stoma : PORE
43
Covered up : HID
44
Tended to squeaks : OILED
46
Tactics for Tommy Atkins : ARMYMANOEUVRES
50
Selene's sister : EOS
51
Journey for a Boer : TREK
52
"Lassù in ___," Verdi duet : CIELO
55
Commonplace : USUAL
57
Dr. Jekyll's hangout : LAB
60
Professional lorry drivers et al. : ORGANISEDLABOUR
63
Paper-mill intake : RAGS
64
One of Pan's foes : SMEE
65
Marcel's menu : CARTE
66
Interlock : MESH
67
Night music at camp : TAPS
68
Kipling poem : ENDOR
Down
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Dior dress style : SACK
2
Music halls : ODEA
3
"___ She Sweet?" : AINT
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Favorite : PET
5
Guarantees : SURETIES
6
Contrive : COOKUP
7
Yellow ide : ORFE
8
Dept. head : MNGR
9
N.Y.C. division : BOR
10
Flintstone, e.g. : CAVEMAN
11
Surrounded by : AMID
12
Waikiki sound : ROTE
13
W.C.T.U. allies : DRYS
18
This, to Pablo : ESTO
19
Moslem prince : AMIR
23
Koch and Wynn : EDS
24
Indian carpet : AGRA
25
Scuttlebutt : RUMOR
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Smoke ___ : ALARM
27
Sonata movement : RONDO
28
Fort ___, Calif. : ORD
29
European blackbird : MERLE
30
Broods; dawdles : MOPES
31
Wheat Belt city : ENID
32
Hemingway nickname : PAPA
37
Cartoonist Addams : CHAS
38
City in Judah: Josh. 15:32 : AIN
39
Cavalier poet : LOVELACE
42
Cilium : EYELASH
45
Irritate : IRK
47
"Racing with the ___," V. Monroe hit : MOON
48
Chopin opera : ETUDES
49
Soviet river : URAL
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Crocus bulb, e.g. : CORM
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Dies ___ : IRAE
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Roe, e.g. : EGGS
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N.Y. training inst. : USMA
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Ooze : SEEP
57
Lady's man : LORD
58
Franklin or Maxwell : AUTO
59
Title for a fox : BRER
61
Novel ending : IST
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Taboo : BAN

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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