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Jeanne Wilson
Jeanne Wilson

New York Times, Wednesday, November 19, 1986

55-Across : Squeezing

Author:
Jeanne Wilson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 60, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 10, XRef: 0
Jeanne Wilson has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,525
Across
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Speaker's spot : DAIS
5
Do the butterfly : SWIM
9
Mottled : PIED
13
Arran resident : SCOT
14
"___ Alice," Albee play : TINY
15
Norway, to a native : NORGE
16
Slingshots : CATAPULTS
18
Ted Lange on "The Love Boat" : ISAAC
19
Take a long look : STARE
20
Aloof : DETACHED
22
Gun the eng. : REV
24
Provoke Pappy Yokum : RILE
25
Tool : CATSPAW
29
Short oratorio : CANTATA
34
Springsteen's "Born in the ___" : USA
35
A foe of Peter Pan : SMEE
37
Looked happy : BEAMED
38
Journalist Jacob ___ : RIIS
40
Five: Comb. form : PENTA
42
Malacca : CANE
43
Picnic meat, sometimes : SALAMI
45
A top W.W. I admiral : SIMS
47
Low digit : TOE
48
Capture : ENSNARE
50
Winged mewer : CATBIRD
52
Comedian-actor Foxx : REDD
54
Plastic or classic preceder : NEO
55
Squeezing : PRESSURE
59
Between ___ and a hard place : AROCK
63
Promise : TROTH
64
Rancher : CATTLEMAN
66
Like a flue : SOOTY
67
A Prot. religion : EPIS
68
He opposes pros : ANTI
69
Icelandic literary work : EDDA
70
Knock down : DECK
71
Cant : LIST
Down
1
Bronze medals: Abbr. : DSCS
2
"Had Tiberius been ___": Arnold : ACAT
3
Jot : IOTA
4
Belle and Bart : STARRS
5
Udall sobriquet : STU
6
Adjective for Steve Martin : WILD
7
Bury : INTER
8
William Blake was one : MYSTIC
9
Resembling Rodeo Drive : POSH
10
Dies ___ : IRAE
11
Minced oath : EGAD
12
Holiday mo. : DEC
15
___ Council: A.D. 325 : NICENE
17
Fledglings' sounds : PEEPS
21
Montgomery resident : ALABAMAN
23
Blackmailers, usurers et al. : VAMPIRES
25
Malediction : CURSE
26
Mongol, e.g. : ASIAN
27
Requirements for a certain party game : TAILS
28
A time to bide : WEE
30
Langley Field gp. : TAC
31
Cremona craftsman : AMATI
32
Kind of sax : TENOR
33
"___ of dreadful note": Macbeth : ADEED
36
Duo in a nonet : ENS
39
Cape ___ Blas, Fla. : SAN
41
Obsession : TIC
44
Fenlike : MARSHY
46
Pick a peck of pockets? : STEAL
49
Inferred : EDUCED
51
Northern : BOREAL
53
Hanging : DRAPE
55
Goad : PROD
56
Cross : ROOD
57
Miss Kett : ETTA
58
Diet follower : ETIC
60
Arena in Atlanta : OMNI
61
Broadway musical hit : CATS
62
Emulate Mme. Defarge : KNIT
63
Lao-___, Chinese philosopher : TSE
65
Small sound of annoyance : TSK

Answer summary:
2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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