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Nikki Tenfelde
Nikki Tenfelde

New York Times, Saturday, January 30, 1982

39-Down : Groupie, to a rock star

Author:
Nikki Tenfelde
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q W X Y }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0
Nikki Tenfelde has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,771
Across
1
Ginger follower : SNAP
5
"The ___ is silence": Shak. : REST
9
Outward : ECTAD
14
Catamount : PUMA
15
Cinders of comics : ELLA
16
Norwegian for Norway : NORGE
17
Subject of many paintings : ADORATION
19
Undefiled : CLEAN
20
"___ in Blue," 1942 song : SERENADE
21
Farmyard creatures : SHOATS
22
Louvre standout : NIKE
23
Impecunious opera buff : STANDEE
24
Remnants in a smoker's pipe : DOTTLE
27
Ascend an ash : SHIN
28
___ Peak, N.M. : OSHA
29
Stock : REPERTOIRE
35
Use a sjambok : FLOG
36
He wrote "The Wonderful Country": 1952 : LEA
37
Finishing nail : BRAD
38
Nautical duo : FOREANDAFT
42
Wall protection : EAVE
43
Animal supposed by poets to shed tears : DEER
44
Hungarian-born conductor : REINER
46
Clambake morsel : STEAMER
50
Fodder for a mudder : OATS
51
Plain-spoken : CANDID
52
Instruments of destruction : ORDNANCE
56
Warmth : ARDOR
57
Four were Triple : ALLIANCES
58
A dozen in Dijon : DOUZE
59
Tribe of Judah emblem : LION
60
Tinge : CAST
61
Dexter, e.g. : STEER
62
Kind of run or ton : LONG
63
Sybarite's delight : EASE
Down
1
Health resorts : SPAS
2
Modigliani's "The Rose ___" : NUDE
3
Omnia conqueror : AMOR
4
Origin : PARENTAGE
5
Photographer trying anew to get it right : RETAKER
6
Suppress : ELIDE
7
Blackthorn : SLOE
8
Punish : TAN
9
Emulate Circe : ENCHANT
10
Sirs follower : COLON
11
Radial pattern : TREAD
12
Child's plaything : AGATE
13
Obtuse : DENSE
18
Indigo plant : ANIL
21
Commotion : STIR
23
Bundle : SHEAF
24
Take off : DOFF
25
European capital : OSLO
26
Dweller in Asgard : THOR
27
Puncture : SPEAR
30
Member of the Sanhedrin : ELDER
31
Homage : OBEISANCE
32
Ahvaz is here : IRAN
33
Be enthusiastic : RAVE
34
River or dam in Germany : EDER
39
Groupie, to a rock star : ADMIRER
40
Indigence : NEED
41
John Jacob Astor's activity : TRADING
45
Site of the Cyclopean smithy : ETNA
46
Plenty : SCADS
47
Gypsy's card : TAROT
48
Provide, as with talent : ENDUE
49
Nodding : ADOZE
50
Synthetic fiber : ORLON
52
Hotchpotch : OLIO
53
Sports org. : NCAA
54
Tax, in Ireland : CESS
55
Renaissance patron : ESTE
57
Root and branch : ALL

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