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Betty Jane Cometa
Betty Jane Cometa

New York Times, Saturday, December 16, 1989

1-Across : Oddball

Author:
Betty Jane Cometa
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 302 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Betty Jane Cometa has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,648
Across
1
Oddball : KOOK
5
Took sides : CHOSE
10
Frost's foot? : IAMB
14
About : INRE
15
Kind of pudding : HASTY
16
Stigma : SCAR
17
O'Connor's "The ___ of Sadness" : EDGE
18
Odin et al. : AESIR
19
Der ___ (Adenauer) : ALTE
20
Explorer and theologian put squeeze on composer : VESPUCCINIEBUHR
23
W.W. II abbr. : ETO
24
Psychic affinity : TELE
25
Hialeah bird : FLAMINGO
30
Greens-bruising stroke : SCLAFF
34
Reddy's "___ Woman" : IAM
35
Ancient ointment : NARD
37
Paten's place : ALTAR
38
Writer and statesman put squeeze on composer : CHEEVERDISRAELI
42
Ah Sin's originator : HARTE
43
Barcelona "but" : PERO
44
King in Kings : ASA
45
Bearish : URSINE
47
Bloomer was one : REFORMER
50
Norwegian river : OTRA
52
Dactyl, e.g. : TOE
53
Chemist and composer put squeeze on painter : PAULINGRESPIGHI
61
Siren in "East of Eden" : ABRA
62
Poplar : ALAMO
63
Divot, sometimes : CLOD
64
Actor Preston: Abbr. : ROBT
65
Whence came Hercules' lion : NEMEA
66
Knit : HEAL
67
Famed Eleonora : DUSE
68
"___ to You," R. Nelson hit: 1963 : ITSUP
69
Like some pinups : SEXY
Down
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Chicken ___ (popular dish) : KIEV
2
Ripple on La Méditerranée : ONDE
3
Assns. : ORGS
4
"___ Flying," Abbott and Costello film : KEEPEM
5
Old Spanish dance : CHACONNE
6
Hic, ___, hoc : HAEC
7
Bone, in combinations : OSSI
8
Assigned task : STINT
9
High homes : EYRIES
10
A Bergman daughter : ISABELLA
11
U.S. legal-defense group : ACLU
12
Part of an S.A.T. : MATH
13
Rabbit, to Remus : BRER
21
To use, to Cato : UTI
22
Actor Dana ___ : ELCAR
25
Woman's scarf : FICHU
26
Mudflow deposit : LAHAR
27
No. and So. followers : AMERS
28
Role for Robin Williams : GARP
29
Directive : ORDER
31
Special Forces unit : ATEAM
32
Kind of face or front : FALSE
33
Franciscan : FRIAR
36
Catastrophic : DIRE
39
Make pale : ETIOLATE
40
Twenty, in Turino : VENTI
41
Butter up : SOFTSOAP
46
Italian opera from a Hugo play : ERNANI
48
Man of Moo : OOP
49
First to Third, in Germany : REICHS
51
Lacing aid : AGLET
53
Roundup cohort : PARD
54
___ Hassan, "Arabian Nights" sleeper : ABOU
55
Roma, to Caesar : URBS
56
Pistons of hydraulic presses : RAMS
57
Aussie bird : EMEU
58
Jollity : GLEE
59
Canard : HOAX
60
Without purpose : IDLY

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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