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Rhonda Kraus
Rhonda Kraus

New York Times, Wednesday, January 25, 1989

47-Down : Search for water

Author:
Rhonda Kraus
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 304 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Spans: 2
Rhonda Kraus has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,323
Across
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David, e.g. : CAMP
5
Take care of : SEETO
10
Off one's rocker : DAFT
14
Smell : ODOR
15
Dark : UNLIT
16
Ostrichlike bird : EMEU
17
The lark, to Romeo : HERALDOFTHEMORN
20
Unity : ONENESS
21
Lorna Doone, e.g. : HEROINE
22
Islet : CAY
23
Wading bird : HERON
24
Motorized bike : MOPED
27
Bohemian religious figure Jan ___ : HUS
28
Couch : DIVAN
32
Periods : ERAS
33
Heston role : HUR
34
Looked attractive on : BECAME
35
Tease : RAG
36
Encumbered : SADDLED
38
TV's "LA ___" : LAW
39
Heep and Cratchit : CLERKS
41
Terhune dog : LAD
42
Aide: Abbr. : ASST
43
First generation Japanese-American : ISSEI
44
Opener of a sort : KEY
45
Sanctify : BLESS
46
Zeal : ARDOR
48
Party hack, for short : POL
49
Monitor : PROCTOR
52
This can be liquefied : SOLUBLE
56
Parting, to Juliet : SUCHSWEETSORROW
58
Tennis great : ASHE
59
Goalies' goals : SAVES
60
Roof part : EAVE
61
Hardy 21 Across : TESS
62
Finnish lake, to Swedes : ENARE
63
The vat man : DYER
Down
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A salmon : COHO
2
___ of thieves : ADEN
3
Twist's request : MORE
4
Struts : PRANCES
5
Like bubble baths : SUDSY
6
A son of Seth : ENOS
7
Santa's helper : ELF
8
Tenths : TITHES
9
Else : OTHER
10
Fiendish : DEMONIC
11
Mine, on the Marne : AMOI
12
"Frondly" plant? : FERN
13
Broadway's Tommy : TUNE
18
Common pollutant : LEAD
19
Worn down : ERODED
23
Track contestant : HURDLER
24
"___ beaucoup" : MERCI
25
Graduate exams, sometimes : ORALS
26
Leaves : PAGES
27
Newman role: 1963 : HUD
29
Ravel's "La ___" : VALSE
30
Pile up : AMASS
31
Efts : NEWTS
33
___-been (faded star) : HAS
34
Breakfast's companion : BED
36
Evades : SKIRTS
37
The ___ of the land : LAY
40
Extends : REACHES
42
Enticed : ALLURED
44
One from a divided land : KOREAN
45
Machete's relative : BOLO
47
Search for water : DOWSE
48
Oater action group : POSSE
49
Test for the college-bound : PSAT
50
Red herring : RUSE
51
Big name in publishing : OCHS
52
Suffix with hip or tip : STER
53
Heehaw : BRAY
54
Shirley of the opera : LOVE
55
Pitcher : EWER
57
Stowe's Little ___ : EVA

Answer summary:
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