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Jeanette K. Brill
Jeanette K. Brill

New York Times, Monday, September 28, 1992

27-Across : Quip: Part II

Author:
Jeanette K. Brill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
Jeanette K. Brill has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,665
Across
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Musical Horne : LENA
5
Make eyes at : OGLE
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Vetches : TARES
14
Romance lang. : ITAL
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Musical group : TRIO
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Freshwater fish : ROACH
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Start of a quip : MUSICIANS
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Heath : ERICA
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Range animal : ANTELOPE
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Pine Tree State : MAINE
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Word with bag or job : NOSE
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Dated : PASSE
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New England prep school : CHOATE
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Quip: Part II : DONOTDIE
30
Tries to find : HUNTS
31
Range animal : BISON
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Year in the papacy of Innocent I : CDV
33
Major ending : ETTE
34
Choreographer Ailey : ALVIN
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Wan : PALE
36
German interjection : ACH
37
Part of T.S.E. : ELIOT
38
Kind of ego : ALTER
39
Quip: Part III : THEYJUST
41
Elegant : CLASSY
42
Soles' brothers? : HEELS
43
Fortress protection : MOAT
44
Puccini heroine : TOSCA
45
Accomplish : CARRYOUT
49
Chutzpah : CRUST
50
End of quip : DECOMPOSE
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A musical count : BASIE
52
Arabian port : ADEN
53
Military group : UNIT
54
McCarthy sidekick : SNERD
55
Flat tableland : MESA
56
Correspondence courtesy inits. : SASE
Down
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Kind of bean : LIMA
2
Vingt-___ (blackjack) : ETUN
3
Political cartoonist : NAST
4
Estrange : ALIENATE
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Indolent : OTIOSE
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Fruit of the vine : GRAPE
7
Kind of drawing : LINE
8
Dawn goddess : EOS
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Betrayal of country : TREASON
10
A past tense of Greek verbs : AORIST
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___ and dogs (teemed) : RAINEDCATS
12
" ___ homo" : ECCE
13
___ Na Na of show biz : SHA
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Coagulates : CLOTS
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Massenet opera : MANON
23
Assume as fact : POSIT
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Defraud : CHEAT
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Rabbits' coop : HUTCH
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Free : ONTHEHOUSE
27
Dislodged turf on a golf course : DIVOT
28
Loafs : IDLES
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___ which way (disordered) : EVERY
31
Great joy : BLISS
34
Bastard wing : ALULA
35
Duckbill : PLATYPUS
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Ousted : EJECTED
38
Frighten : ALARM
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" ___, That's My Baby," 1925 song : YESSIR
41
Blunt-ended cigar : CORONA
43
Symbols of authority : MACES
44
___ Van Huong, Vietnamese Prime Minister: 1965 : TRAN
45
Grant : CEDE
46
Sir Charles's lady : OONA
47
Govt. information arm abroad : USIS
48
Head, in Le Havre : TETE
49
An ABC rival : CBS
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Grand Coulee, for one : DAM

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

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