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Betty Jorgensen
Betty Jorgensen

New York Times, Wednesday, May 27, 1992

46-Across : Sideshow tout

Author:
Betty Jorgensen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0
Betty Jorgensen has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 8 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,541
Across
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Desert dweller : ARAB
5
State, on the Seine : ETAT
9
Eliot's "cruellest month" : APRIL
14
Pedestal part : DADO
15
Remote broadcast, for short : NEMO
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Commerce : TRADE
17
Clock part : DIAL
18
Kind of joint : CLIP
19
Earl (Fatha) ___ of music : HINES
20
Quasimodo's lost love : ESMERALDA
22
Cosmetics name : ESTEE
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Liberation : RANSOM
24
Bluish-white metallic element : ZINC
26
Acronym for a powerful cartel : OPEC
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Fastening device : NAILER
33
Sailors' bedding : SLOPS
37
Kind of forest : RAIN
39
Caron film : LILI
40
Bourn : LIMIT
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"___ a girl" : ITS
42
Inamorato : FLAME
43
Church corner : AMEN
44
Yearn : ACHE
45
Moses' brother : AARON
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Sideshow tout : BARKER
48
Calendar period : YEAR
50
Austen novel : EMMA
52
Egyptian beetle : SCARAB
57
"The Treasure of the Sierra ___" : MADRE
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Lara's lost love : DRZHIVAGO
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Let up : ABATE
64
Kind of lens : ZOOM
65
Notable times : ERAS
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Yenta's tidbit : RUMOR
67
Sicilian spouter : ETNA
68
Check : REIN
69
Tommy's guns : STENS
70
Observed : SEEN
71
Gymnasts' perfect scores : TENS
Down
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Viper : ADDER
2
Mikhail's mate : RAISA
3
Rhett's last words : ADAMN
4
Tree trunks : BOLES
5
Bivouac : ENCAMP
6
Ace archer : TELL
7
In with : AMID
8
Uris novel : TOPAZ
9
Goddess of wisdom : ATHENA
10
Miles's lost love : PRISCILLA
11
Talk wildly : RANT
12
Concept, in Caen : IDEE
13
___-majesté : LESE
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Hen's home : ROOST
25
Hostelry : INN
27
Guitarist Clapton : ERIC
28
Heathcliff's lost love : CATHY
30
Taleteller : LIAR
31
His fire lights the masthead : ELMO
32
Nothing, in Nice : RIEN
33
Thick slice : SLAB
34
Bean type : LIMA
35
One-tenth of an ephah : OMER
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Cio-Cio-San's lost love : PINKERTON
38
"Is this a dagger which ___ ... ?" : ISEE
42
Stuffed, to Brillat-Savarin : FARCI
44
Sleeve holding : ARM
47
Islamic commanders : EMEERS
49
Trash collector : ASHMAN
51
Timber-shaping tools : ADZES
53
Stave off : AVERT
54
Peep show : RAREE
55
Over : AGAIN
56
Petty offs. : BOSNS
57
Red planet : MARS
58
Be cheek by jowl to : ABUT
59
Title for Evans or Sutherland : DAME
61
Surf sound : ROTE
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Specific area : ZONE

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