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Hosler
Hosler

New York Times, Saturday, March 24, 1984

28-Across : "My Sister ___"

Author:
Hosler
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 256 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0
Hosler has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,555
Across
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Brazilian dance : SAMBA
6
An arm of H.U.D. : FHA
9
Titubate : REEL
13
"___ of One's Own": Woolf : AROOM
14
Down Under leapers : ROOS
15
Part of a roof : EAVE
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Eos's time : SUNUP
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It was, to Nero : ERAT
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Cliff : CRAG
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Complication : SNARL
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Defender of Rome: 1849 : GARIBALDI
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One of the Fords : GERALD
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Sports shocker : UPSET
25
Foundation : BASE
28
"My Sister ___" : EILEEN
30
Footstool : OTTOMAN
32
Noted U.S. seismologist : RICHTER
37
Depended : RELIED
38
Hypothesis : THEORY
39
Knowing : GNOSTIC
41
"___ Tattoo," T. Williams play : THEROSE
42
Rootlessness : ANOMIE
44
Bull and Rolvaag : OLES
45
Stand for de Kooning : EASEL
49
Poet Aiken : CONRAD
51
Traveling bag : GLADSTONE
53
Sociologist's concern : MORES
57
Frost : RIME
58
Composer-singer from Ottawa : ANKA
59
Ring-shaped reef : ATOLL
60
Black : EBON
61
Litigant : SUER
62
Home of the "Golden Hurricane" : TULSA
63
Sobrinos' kin : TIAS
64
Hampshire's home : STY
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Holm : ISLET
Down
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Lip : SASS
2
___ for one's money : ARUN
3
Actress Maris : MONA
4
Middle-class : BOURGEOIS
5
Plentiful : AMPLE
6
"___ We Know," 1934 song : FORALL
7
Magpie or pack rat : HOARDER
8
Italian commune : ASTI
9
A summing up : RECAP
10
Hyde and Grey : EARLS
11
Circumvent : EVADE
12
On the up and up : LEGIT
14
Get back : REGAIN
21
Nobel Peace Prize winner: 1950 : BUNCHE
23
Companion of writin' and 'rithmetic : READIN
25
Five-time Wimbledon champ : BORG
26
Egyptian symbol : ATEN
27
Manche's capital : STLO
29
One or the other : EITHER
31
Basic materials : METALS
33
"Father of History" : HERODOTUS
34
Dupe : TOOL
35
Old tongue : ERSE
36
Gypsy gentlemen : RYES
40
One source of milk : COCONUT
41
Chorus rejectee's problem : TINEAR
43
Dance of the 60's : MONKEY
45
Shore bird : EGRET
46
Excuse of a sort : ALIBI
47
Group north of Tonga : SAMOA
48
Sir Anthony and family : EDENS
50
Instrument for Perlman : AMATI
52
Soviet wire service : TASS
54
Ship's motion : ROLL
55
Gilbert's Lord High Everything ___ : ELSE
56
Lath : SLAT

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