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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Tuesday, March 15, 1988

23-Across : Saharan sights

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,007
Across
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U.N.'s U ___ : THANT
6
Suffer : ACHE
10
Rumanian dance : HORA
14
Part of ancient Greece : IONIA
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Foray : RAID
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"When I was ___ ... " : ALAD
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Irving Berlin song: 1929 : PUTTINONTHERITZ
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Pragmatic ones : REALISTS
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River quay : LEVEE
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Shoot out : SPEW
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Saharan sights : CAMELS
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Arose : GOTUP
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Anthony and Clarissa : EDENS
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Shiraz native : IRANI
31
Skier's lift : TBAR
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Hunter or Stanley : KIM
35
Cole Porter song: 1935 : BEGINTHEBEGUINE
39
Quintet in "La, La, Lucille" : ELS
40
N.F.L. employees : REFS
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Imam's faith : ISLAM
42
Asparagus stalk : SPEAR
44
Compact : DENSE
45
Delights : ELATES
48
Teed off : IRED
51
The British call this asdic : SONAR
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Most substantial : MEATIEST
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Freed-Brown song: 1929 : SINGININTHERAIN
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Pa. city : ERIE
60
Word with shoppe : OLDE
61
Beam : SMILE
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Desideratum : NEED
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Tweed was one : BOSS
64
Keep score : TALLY
Down
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Waiter's expectation : TIP
2
Word with glass or hand : HOUR
3
Kick in, in poker : ANTE
4
Naldi of silents : NITA
5
Airplane's swift descent : TAILSPIN
6
Originated : AROSE
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James-Swift song: 1929 : CANTWEBEFRIENDS
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Most of Mercer's songs : HITS
9
Old English letter : EDH
10
Seraglios : HAREMS
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Shade of green : OLIVE
12
Honey badger : RATEL
13
Woodworkers' tools : ADZES
18
Tuck's companion : NIP
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Gusto : ELAN
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Part of a parrot's beak : CERE
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Scoff : GIBE
25
City on the Oka : OREL
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Aglets : TAGS
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Prefix with form or sex : UNI
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Pecks at : DABS
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"Take ___ Train" : THEA
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Ceramist's need : KILN
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Actresses Claire and Balin : INAS
34
Same, in Somme : MEME
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___ bien : TRES
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Most frivolous : GIDDIEST
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Take advantage of : USE
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Produced for public viewing : STAGED
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Lovely woman : PERI
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City near Düsseldorf : ESSEN
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France's longest river : LOIRE
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Sharpshooter Oakley : ANNIE
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Upbraids : RATES
50
Biblical verb ending : ETH
52
Venus de ___ : MILO
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Writer Bombeck : ERMA
54
Lateen or mizzen : SAIL
55
Money compartment : TILL
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Head: Slang : NOB
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French marshal under Napoleon : NEY

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