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Barbara J. Weakley
Barbara J. Weakley

New York Times, Monday, October 14, 1991

34-Down : Annie's canine friend

Author:
Barbara J. Weakley
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Barbara J. Weakley has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,315
Across
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Mendacious : FALSE
6
Formal party : BALL
10
Be a tattler : BLAB
14
Bay window : ORIEL
15
Potpourri : OLIO
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City NNE of Lake Tahoe : RENO
17
Frighten : ALARM
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Diving birds : AUKS
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Something to feel : OATS
20
Name for a chair or a cat : MORRIS
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Precise : METHODIC
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Basra native : ARAB
26
Caviar source : SHAD
27
Musical compositions : CANTATAS
31
Puts into office : ELECTS
35
Sheltered, at sea : ALEE
36
Prefix with pose or view : INTER
38
Actress Perlman : RHEA
39
Rumpus : ROW
40
Captures : NAILS
41
Wayside retreat : INN
42
Draft status : ONEA
44
Islamic deity : ALLAH
45
"___ Three Lives" : ILED
46
Alf's homeland : MELMAC
48
Immortality : ETERNITY
50
Hand-lotion additive : ALOE
52
Dickens heavy : HEEP
53
Grasping ones : BUZZARDS
57
This can be hard or soft : PALATE
61
Others, to Ovid : ALII
62
French city : NICE
64
Relish : SAVOR
65
Privy to : INON
66
Verve : ELAN
67
The bounding main : OCEAN
68
Sharp flavor : TANG
69
Tear : REND
70
Modern-day drips : NERDS
Down
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Lather : FOAM
2
Woody's boy : ARLO
3
Prevaricator : LIAR
4
Notched : SERRATE
5
Where Twain is buried : ELMIRA
6
Anaconda : BOA
7
Grad : ALUM
8
Takes a shine to : LIKES
9
What Little Bo-peep did : LOSTHERSHEEP
10
Incubator : BROODER
11
Conduct : LEAD
12
Con : ANTI
13
Type of pear : BOSC
21
What Little Jack Horner did : SATINACORNER
23
Actor Holbrook : HAL
25
Insipid; twice-told : BANAL
27
Rebound : CAROM
28
Like an eremite : ALONE
29
Stairway post : NEWEL
30
Steps over a fence : STILE
32
Cook-off concoction : CHILI
33
Dogma : TENET
34
Annie's canine friend : SANDY
37
Israeli port : ELATH
43
One kind of grace : AMAZING
45
Properly situated : INPLACE
47
The Heart of Dixie: Abbr. : ALA
49
Think logically : REASON
51
Roman magistrate : EDILE
53
Decoy : BAIT
54
Radius's neighbor : ULNA
55
Celebrated hill in Jerusalem : ZION
56
CAT, for one : SCAN
58
State with assurance : AVER
59
Contemptible one : TOAD
60
Sea birds : ERNS
63
Finish : END

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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