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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Thursday, April 26, 1984

57-Across : ___ Field, Chicago

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,588
Across
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Steamed up : SORE
5
Regarding : ASTO
9
Father of Leah and Rachel : LABAN
14
Seed cover : ARIL
15
Photocopy, for short : STAT
16
Rich or Dunne : IRENE
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Indoor convertible, sometimes : DAVENPORT
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Consumers' advocate : NADER
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Where Bowie fell, with "the" : ALAMO
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Contemporary of Shakespeare : PEELE
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Craze : FAD
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Nettles : IRKS
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Hart's or Hammerstein's partner : RODGERS
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Forbear : ABSTAIN
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Inverse of a knit stitch : PURL
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Snap : PIE
33
Sir Edward, the composer : ELGAR
35
Blanched : PALED
38
A Mussolini : EDDA
40
Wrath : ANGER
42
Wonderland bird : DODO
43
Verso's opposite : RECTO
45
Road behemoths : SEMIS
47
"Rug" : WIG
48
Anderson of TV's WKRP : LONI
50
Authorize : LICENSE
52
Resumes discussion : REOPENS
55
___ me tangere : NOLI
56
Part of i.e. : EST
57
___ Field, Chicago : STAGG
59
Up ___ (baffled) : ATREE
63
Social standards : ETHOS
65
Kind of quilt : PATCHWORK
67
"We ___ happy life": Horace : SEEKA
68
Christie forte : PLOT
69
Run in neutral : IDLE
70
Elia product : ESSAY
71
Hankerings : YENS
72
___ off (incensed) : TEED
Down
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Actress Thompson : SADA
2
Nuncupative : ORAL
3
Shore, in Palermo : RIVA
4
Tropical resins : ELEMIS
5
Egyptian viper : ASP
6
These are usually octagonal : STOPSIGNS
7
Weight allowance : TARE
8
Aquatic mammal : OTTER
9
On a queue : LINEDUP
10
Macaw : ARA
11
Associates : BEDFELLOWS
12
Lend ___ (heed) : ANEAR
13
Twerps' cousins : NERDS
18
Direction for Pedro : NORTE
22
Cut off : LOP
25
Black cage bird, in Agra : KALA
27
Alum : GRAD
28
Hamilton, to Gen. Washington : AIDE
29
Blankets and linens : BEDCLOTHES
30
Conrad of the silents : NAGEL
32
Part of m.p.h. : PER
34
"Wounded Bunkie" sculptor : REMINGTON
36
Adams of Kingston, Pa. : EDIE
37
Kind of watch : DOG
39
On the summit : ATOP
41
Carty of baseball : RICO
44
Have ___ (speak up) : ONESSAY
46
Psalm word : SELAH
49
Banking abbr. : INT
51
Blockhead : NITWIT
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The Little Colonel : REESE
53
Simon of the Met : ESTES
54
Foolish : SAPPY
58
Big blow : GALE
60
Lay at anchor : RODE
61
Perry's creator : ERLE
62
___ out (scrimped) : EKED
64
Orel's river : OKA
66
Where atts. contend : CTS

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

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