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Margaret W. Huskey
Margaret W. Huskey

New York Times, Thursday, August 16, 1990

57-Across : Novice: Var.

Author:
Margaret W. Huskey
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J W X Z }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Margaret W. Huskey has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,891
Across
1
Finale : END
4
Elmer Gantry's wife : CLEO
8
Lights-out signal : TAPS
12
Ransack : LOOT
14
Welty's "The Ponder ___" : HEART
16
Skip : OMIT
17
Former queen of Greece : OLGA
18
Event in N Calif.: Oct. 17, 1989 : EARTHQUAKE
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Bridge bids : NOTRUMPS
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Reddish brown : RUSSET
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Roasts, in Paris : ROTIS
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Trompe l'___ (illusion) : OEIL
25
Lists of candidates : SLATES
27
Blood ___ (aid in coagulation) : PLATELET
31
Fencers' cries : HAIS
32
Cornered : TREED
34
Dreadful : DIRE
35
Beautician Westmore : ERN
36
___-Coeli Church, in Rome : ARA
37
Club for swingers : BAT
38
He composed "Happy Days Are Here Again" : AGER
40
Hunter's hiding place : BLIND
42
Presidential power : VETO
43
Emulate haruspices : FORETELL
45
Press again : REIRON
47
Antimacassar : TIDY
48
"Gondoliers" lass : TESSA
49
Shrewd : ASTUTE
52
Darts, e.g. : MISSILES
55
Carol, Hugo and others : HURRICANES
57
Novice: Var. : TIRO
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Innisfail : ERIN
59
Danish monetary unit : KRONE
60
Town destroyed in 1944 : STLO
61
Alcott heroine and namesakes : MEGS
62
Tore : SPED
63
Thus far : YET
Down
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N.C. college : ELON
2
Defendant's ___ contendere : NOLO
3
Obedience-school worker : DOGTRAINER
4
Pierre or Marja Curie : CHEMIST
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Bounds' partner : LEAPS
6
Supporters of spectacles : EARS
7
Morsel for Spot : ORT
8
Rumpled : TOUSLED
9
Second of a Latin trio : AMAS
10
A Colo. mountain is named for him : PIKE
11
Printer's direction : STET
13
Old card game : TAROTS
15
Filament : THREAD
19
Stop : QUIT
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A Shoshonean : UTE
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A N.Y. city : OLEAN
25
Bundle : SHEAF
26
Very slow, to Solti : LARGO
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Jeopardy : PERIL
28
Bounty : LIBERALITY
29
Muse of bridal songs : ERATO
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Wyo.'s ___ Range : TETON
33
Mass meeting : RALLY
39
Post-Election Day arithmetic : RETURNS
40
Adorn : BEDECK
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Scolded, with "down" : DRESSED
42
Guests' sojourns : VISITS
44
Glossy-leaved tree of the southern U.S. : TITI
46
Curve : ESS
48
He has, in Honduras : TIENE
49
Attention getter : AHEM
50
Unwavering : SURE
51
Smartly dressed : TRIG
52
Alphabet foursome : MNOP
53
Film director Kenton : ERLE
54
Powdery carbon : SOOT
56
Ovid's "___ Amatoria" : ARS

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

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