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Rhonda Kraus
Rhonda Kraus

New York Times, Thursday, April 21, 1988

52-Across : Obvious

Author:
Rhonda Kraus
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.28, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 4, XRef: 1
Rhonda Kraus has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,044
Across
1
Starry : ASTRAL
7
N.H. city : NASHUA
13
Qualm : SCRUPLE
15
Skeptically : ASKANCE
17
Place for a cradle? : TREETOP
18
Small pianos : SPINETS
19
"For ___ a jolly ... " : HES
20
Ayes : YESSES
22
River isle : AIT
23
Encountered : MET
24
English pope : ADRIAN
25
"Rule, Britannia" composer : ARNE
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Loser to Dwight : ADLAI
28
An antelope : GNU
29
Link again : RETIE
30
Churchly discourses : SERMONS
32
Dancer Katherine : DUNHAM
33
Muck's companion : MIRE
34
Arrived : CAME
35
Sign of age : PATINA
38
Sand rats' kin : GERBILS
41
"It's ___ way to Tipperary ... " : ALONG
42
Come out ahead : WIN
43
Entrances to mines : ADITS
45
Hit hard : SLUG
46
Sips : TASTES
48
Jell : SET
49
Sound of impatience : TUT
50
Heggen's "___ Roberts" : MISTER
51
Notice : SEE
52
Obvious : EVIDENT
54
Meat-filled pastry : RISSOLE
57
Pedigree : LINEAGE
58
Plotted : SCHEMED
59
Type sizes : AGATES
60
Lumberjacks : HEWERS
Down
1
Wheezing condition : ASTHMA
2
Diatribes : SCREEDS
3
Carpenter's horse : TRESTLE
4
Actress McClanahan : RUE
5
Likely : APT
6
Silent screen's Harold : LLOYD
7
Bahamian capital : NASSAU
8
Colo. resort : ASPEN
9
Gear for 8 Down : SKIS
10
Chinese dynasty : HAN
11
Dig up : UNEARTH
12
Sea anemone : ACTINIA
14
Table centerpiece : EPERGNE
16
Value : ESTEEM
21
Transgressions : SINS
24
Toxophilite's action : AIMING
25
Virgil's epic : AENEID
27
Pre-joust activity : ARMING
29
Latin dances : RUMBAS
31
"___ pro nobis" : ORA
32
Book by Nabokov : DAR
34
Hubs : CENTERS
35
Short, light prose work : PASTEL
36
Sediment : ALLUVIA
37
Tipster's activity : TOUTING
38
Essence : GIST
39
Lithe : LISSOME
40
Pittsburgh footballer : STEELER
42
Squanders : WASTES
44
Mounts for knights : STEEDS
46
Faint hue : TINGE
47
Film's Von Stroheim : ERICH
50
Headcheese, e.g. : MEAT
53
Minerva, for one : DEA
55
Pronoun for a calico cat : SHE
56
Stitch : SEW

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