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Betty Jorgensen
Betty Jorgensen

New York Times, Thursday, May 18, 1989

24-Across : Farm measure

Author:
Betty Jorgensen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 46, Avg Word Len: 4.59, Missing: { K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has duplicate clues.
Betty Jorgensen has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 8 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,436
Across
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Materialistic : CRASS
6
Go on all fours : CREEP
11
Follower of a doxy : IST
14
Wading bird : HERON
15
Main artery : AORTA
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Me, to Miss Piggy : MOI
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Colby or Louise : ANITA
18
Cities in Italy and N.Y. : ROMES
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Something to put in your eye : MUD
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Seed holder : POD
21
Start of a quip : THEMASSEUSE
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Farm measure : ACRE
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Lab vessels : ETNAS
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More of the quip : LOSTHERJOBSHE
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Political group : PARTY
33
It is often nut-brown : ALE
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Mast support : STAY
35
Waited : BIDED
37
Not there : AWAY
41
Crude metal : ORE
42
Nonsense : TRIPE
43
More of the quip : RUBBEDCLIENTS
48
Describing Falstaff : OBESE
50
Lady Chaplin : OONA
51
End of the quip : THEWRONGWAY
55
Tot up : ADD
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Clumsy fellow : OAF
59
Soap plant : AMOLE
60
Trend : TENOR
62
Opposite of WSW : ENE
63
Roofer : TILER
64
Subtle sarcasm : IRONY
65
Affixed a J. Hancock : SGD
66
Jacket and collar : ETONS
67
Lions' prides : MANES
Down
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Fellow : CHAP
2
Gambling town : RENO
3
Saharan : ARID
4
Toper : SOT
5
Spasmodic : SNATCHY
6
Line : CAREER
7
House segment : ROOM
8
Bombeck, the columnist : ERMA
9
Nice summers : ETES
10
Makes the grade : PASSES
11
Protected against : IMMUNE
12
The March King : SOUSA
13
Ocean movements : TIDES
22
Charlemagne's dom. : HRE
23
Biblical suffix : ETH
24
A.B.A. member : ATTY
26
Certain records, for short : LPS
27
Cereal grain : OAT
28
Kind of dye : SRA
29
Effete : JADED
30
Grand ___ Opry : OLE
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___ and breakfast : BED
35
Cut short : BOB
36
Choler : IRE
37
Space : AREA
38
Gerald Ford's button : WIN
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Likely : APT
40
O.K. : YES
42
Tiptoer through tulips : TINYTIM
43
Shortened sail : REEFED
44
Etc., in Essen : USW
45
Scold soundly : BERATE
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Cringes : COWERS
47
Mauna ___ : LOA
48
Okla. Indians : OTOES
49
Hemp : BHANG
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Leave out : OMIT
53
___ contendere (Agnew's plea) : NOLO
54
Secluded valley : GLEN
55
In a short time : ANON
56
Completed : DONE
57
Prohibitionists : DRYS
61
Failed NOW goal : ERA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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