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S. E. Wilkinson
S. E. Wilkinson

New York Times, Saturday, November 5, 1988

48-Across : Movie-sequel words

Author:
S. E. Wilkinson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { Q V Y Z }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
S. E. Wilkinson has 16 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,242
Across
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Hungarian city on the Danube : BAJA
5
Upshots : ENDS
9
Common, in New England : PARK
13
Business-letter phrase : INRE
14
Intended : MEANT
16
___ da capo : ARIA
17
Seed cases : BURS
18
Ledger page : FOLIO
19
Restless desire : ITCH
20
As a whole : INTOTO
22
"Mapp and Lucia" author : EFBENSON
24
Singspiel, e.g. : OPERA
26
Sinister : FELL
27
E. Indian timber tree : SAL
29
Pompeii's undoing : ASHES
31
Projection : LEDGE
35
For shame! : TSK
36
British gun : STEN
37
Talked (over) : HASHED
38
Busy : ATIT
40
Praise : EXTOL
42
Monoski, e.g. : SLED
43
Stout man? : BREWER
45
Bombeck : ERMA
47
Thus, in Taxco : ASI
48
Movie-sequel words : SONOF
49
D.C. art gallery : FREER
50
"She is a winsome ___ thing": Burns : WEE
51
Number of fingers per hand : FOUR
53
Sardonic grin : SNEER
55
"Dear Brutus" playwright : JMBARRIE
59
Youngest sons : CADETS
62
Actor Guinness : ALEC
63
Carroll character : SNARK
65
Pesky bug : GNAT
66
A river at Rennes : ILLE
67
Come to terms : AGREE
68
Farm division : ACRE
69
Plumbum : LEAD
70
Esau's father-in-law : ELON
71
Countersink : REAM
Down
1
Actress Andersson : BIBI
2
"The holy time is quiet as ___": Wordsworth : ANUN
3
"The Hobbit" author : JRRTOLKIEN
4
Greek fabulist : AESOP
5
"A Passage to India" author : EMFORSTER
6
New beginning? : NEO
7
Evans or Carnegie : DALE
8
Catches the scent : SNIFFS
9
Not distressful : PAINLESS
10
Sculpture, painting, etc. : ARTS
11
Petrocelli of Red Sox fame : RICO
12
Lyricist Gus : KAHN
15
Soliloquy opener : TOBE
21
Cachar and congou : TEAS
23
O'Neill's mother : ELLA
25
Put ___ on (bewitch) : AHEX
27
Impales : STABS
28
Pet dog of the Jetsons : ASTRO
30
Join up : ENTER
32
"Sons and Lovers" author : DHLAWRENCE
33
Embden and quink : GEESE
34
Actor Bracken : EDDIE
37
"The American Language" author : HLMENCKEN
39
Underhanded : TWOFACED
41
Rock groups? : ORES
44
___ effort : EFOR
46
Math measure : AREA
49
Kind of benefit : FRINGE
52
Bear in the air : URSA
54
Ventriloquist Bergen : EDGAR
55
Con's confines : JAIL
56
Meuse Miss: Abbr. : MLLE
57
Sculptor Pratt: 1867-1917 : BELA
58
Spouse of a countess : EARL
60
Erstwhile Irish capital : TARA
61
Petal pusher? : STEM
64
Hudson contemporary : REO

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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