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Walker
Walker

New York Times, Tuesday, August 31, 1982

9-Across : A teammate of Jackie Robinson

Author:
Walker
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Walker has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,984
Across
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Intertwine : LACE
5
Mirthful sound : HAHA
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A teammate of Jackie Robinson : REESE
14
Isle off coast of Ireland : ARAN
15
Greenland explorer : ERIC
16
Lift up : ELATE
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Peary find: 1909 : NORTHPOLE
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Eyeshade : VISOR
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Chosen, to the Japanese : KOREA
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Code man : MORSE
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Scotland's longest stream : TAY
24
Hymn by S. F. Smith : AMERICA
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Cotton wrapper : BALER
28
Something to keep clean : SLATE
30
Verb linked to 65 : RETIRE
33
Miss Piggy, e.g. : SOW
36
Successful at dieting : SLIM
37
Presidential first name : GROVER
38
Structure having piles : PIER
40
___ des Beaux-Arts, Paris : ECOLE
42
Mezzo-soprano Rankin : NELL
43
Give a task to : ASSIGN
45
Gas container : TANK
47
Whisky : RYE
48
Gained : NETTED
49
Diminutive suffixes : ETTES
51
He pitted Satan vs. Webster : BENET
53
"___ a doctor in the house?" : ISTHERE
57
Obj. in the news : UFO
59
Like homo sapiens : ERECT
61
Air at Yuletide : CAROL
62
Inner cities, often : SLUMS
64
Spahn, Ford et al. : SOUTHPAWS
66
Work by Brahms : NANIE
67
Fuss : TODO
68
Support, to Marcel : ETAI
69
Pianist Watts : ANDRE
70
River in NW Europe : YSER
71
Over : DONE
Down
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Sri ___ : LANKA
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Woolf's "___ of One's Own" : AROOM
3
John Le ___, English novelist : CARRE
4
Comes on stage : ENTERS
5
On to : HEP
6
Fragrant : AROMATIC
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Hawaiian port : HILO
8
Sharp and harsh : ACERB
9
One on a spree : REVELER
10
Wallach : ELI
11
N.Y.C. strait : EASTRIVER
12
Portico : STOA
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Strange : EERY
18
Salutes : HAILS
22
A Tate display : SARGENTS
25
Machine in a paper plant : CALENDER
27
School Orwell attended : ETON
29
Overact : EMOTE
31
Depend : RELY
32
___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
33
Bridge : SPAN
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Where Beauvais is : OISE
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Like Sol after sunrise : WESTBOUND
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Ceremony : RITE
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Elbow room : LATITUDE
44
County in Mich. or N.Y. : GENESEE
46
Two-masted vessel : KETCH
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Sculptured : SHAPED
52
Irritable : TESTY
54
Muse for Sappho : ERATO
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Mountain ash : ROWAN
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Famous bovine : ELSIE
57
Acad. in Md. : USNA
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Custardlike dessert : FLAN
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Frost's "The Witch of ___" : COOS
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Chief, in Calcutta : MIR
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High, craggy hill : TOR

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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