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Jeanne Wilson
Jeanne Wilson

New York Times, Monday, August 15, 1983

23-Across : Olympics event

Author:
Jeanne Wilson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.72, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Jeanne Wilson has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,333
Across
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Unadorned : BALD
5
Young oyster : SPAT
9
Wild hog : BOAR
13
Dies ___ : IRAE
14
One of seven arts : MUSIC
16
Palo ___ : ALTO
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Deep-water food fish : REDSNAPPER
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Symbol of slenderness : REED
20
Spokelike : RADIAL
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House of Lancaster emblem : REDROSE
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Olympics event : RELAY
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Shoe width : EEE
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"___ are born great ... ": Shak. : SOME
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Delete; censor : REDPENCIL
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Greedy : AVID
36
Lark or condor : SOARER
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Single : ONE
38
Evergreen : FIR
39
Actor Erwin : STU
40
Press or post ender : URE
41
Squealer : RAT
42
Chemical ending : ENE
43
"The ___ quicker than ... " : HANDIS
45
County in SE England : KENT
46
In flagrante delicto : REDHANDED
48
Fatal date in 44 B.C. : IDES
49
Approved, for short : OKD
50
Ruhr Basin city : ESSEN
53
Boston Massacre soldier : REDCOAT
57
Columnist Hopper et al. : HEDDAS
61
In a frenzy : AMOK
62
False clue : REDHERRING
65
Marceau, e.g. : MIME
66
Anticipate with pleasure : DROOL
67
Emend : EDIT
68
Quarry : PREY
69
Armstrong or Diamond : NEIL
70
Benedictine monks' titles : DOMS
Down
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Force; energy : BIRR
2
Locality : AREA
3
She portrayed Princess Grace on TV : LADD
4
Craved : DESIRED
5
Diminutive : SMALL
6
Baby seal : PUP
7
Cleo's downfall : ASP
8
Stratum : TIER
9
Unfruitful : BARREN
10
Margarine : OLEO
11
Comedian Roscoe : ATES
12
" ... ___ the six hundred": Tennyson : RODE
15
Baby's one-piece garment : CREEPERS
18
Scot's negative : NAE
22
Farm-machinery name : DEERE
24
Encircling : AROUND
25
Affirmative vote : YEA
27
Colleague of Wallace : SAFER
28
Sheeplike : OVINE
29
Bogged down : MIRED
31
Celtic priests : DRUIDS
32
Removed the center : CORED
33
Nonsensical : INANE
34
Baltic people : LETTS
36
Basic rule : STANDARD
39
Military hat : SHAKO
44
River in Scotland : DEE
45
Of like nature : KINDRED
47
Ray Bourque's game : HOCKEY
51
Seashore find : SHELL
52
Always, to Keats : EER
53
Incline : RAMP
54
Arab chieftain : EMIR
55
Geodesic ___ : DOME
56
Sea swallow : TERN
58
Prank : DIDO
59
Lively, to Liszt: Abbr. : ANIM
60
Some noncoms : SGTS
63
The buck stops her : DOE
64
___ polloi : HOI

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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