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Peter G. Snow
Peter G. Snow

New York Times, Saturday, June 18, 1988

50-Across : Petroleum ingredients

Author:
Peter G. Snow
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { B H J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 242 (avg 1.32)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0 Grid has supersymmetry.
Peter G. Snow has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,102
Across
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Hilum : SCAR
5
Pondered : MUSED
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Crawled, in a way : SWAM
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She gets whatever she wants : LOLA
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In reserve : ASIDE
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Part of HOMES : ERIE
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Cheese or source thereof : EDAM
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Mediterranean port : TUNIS
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Verdi opus : AIDA
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Lose hope : DESPAIR
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Dined well : FEASTED
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English monarch: 1702-14 : ANNE
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Role for Shirley : IRMA
26
Track official : STARTER
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Unfolds : EVOLVES
33
Republican et al. : PARTIES
34
Poetic form : SESTINA
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One hundred square meters : ARE
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Lose intensity : SAG
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Monastic haircut : TONSURE
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Reprieve : RESPITE
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Livingston's compatriot : STANLEY
47
Lords Spiritual and Temporal : ESTATES
48
Mansard part : EAVE
49
Fitzgerald forte : SCAT
50
Petroleum ingredients : OCTANES
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Presage : PORTEND
57
Predecessor of barrel or pie : PORK
58
Dynamo part : ROTOR
60
Stein-Plimpton book : EDIE
61
Opposite of aweather : ALEE
62
Council of 1545-63 : TRENT
63
Cause one to get het up : RILE
64
Annealing oven : LEER
65
Third-day creations : SEEDS
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Chassé : STEP
Down
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Monoski : SLED
2
Dress ___ : CODE
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Lackaday! : ALAS
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Bulwark : RAMPART
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Forenoon, in France : MATINEE
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Loan sharks : USURERS
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Harte's Ah ___ : SIN
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Enlightens : EDIFIES
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Merit : DESERVE
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Result of ocean-water evaporation : SEASALT
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Mandamus : WRIT
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Adjuvant : AIDE
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Anthropologist or lake : MEAD
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Con : ANTI
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Major Hoople : AMOS
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Gaiters : SPATS
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Card of a sort : TAROT
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Hippodrome : ARENA
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Something to pay : VISIT
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Growing out : ENATE
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Men of ken : SAGES
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One of Bird's shoes : SNEAKER
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___ Bator : ULAN
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Goes back : REVERTS
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Unpleasant sight : EYESORE
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Answer : RESPOND
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Accompanies : ESCORTS
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Merak or Mizar : STAR
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Cant and jargon : PATTERS
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Oculus mundi : OPAL
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Mustard cousin : COLE
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Ombu or dilo : TREE
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Practice diaskeuasis : EDIT
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Ludwig subject : NILE
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"The ___," Bisset film : DEEP
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What many a driver shatters : TEE

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