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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Friday, October 2, 1987

1-Down : Meadow sound

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,842
Across
1
Finishing nail : BRAD
5
Miles of jazz : DAVIS
10
Kind of prof : ASST
14
Elegance : LUXE
15
Coeur d'___, Idaho : ALENE
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Tick's cousin : MITE
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Industrialist von Skoda : EMIL
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Shipworm : BORER
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Danube hue : BLUE
20
Crawford-MacMurray film: 1943 : ABOVESUSPICION
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Least feral : TAMEST
24
Military storehouse : ETAPE
25
195 and 40 : RTES
27
Uhlan weapons : LANCES
31
Ichabod Crane's domain : CLASSROOM
36
Journalist I. F. : STONE
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Nautical record : LOG
38
Done in : SLAIN
40
Heredity factor : DNA
41
Plumed bird : EGRET
44
Host of TV's "The Blue Angel": 1954 : ORSONBEAN
47
Emulates Silas Marner : WEAVES
49
Anagram for riot : TRIO
50
Berlin's "When ___ You" : ILOST
53
Three-horse Russian vehicle : TROIKA
57
Up for auction : UNDERTHEHAMMER
60
Patella site : KNEE
61
Clark Kent off screen : REEVE
62
Bathe : LAVE
63
Collar or jacket : ETON
64
Neatness : ORDER
65
Protection : EGIS
66
Former Wolverine coach : YOST
67
Deteriorates by use : WEARS
68
Yurt : TENT
Down
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Meadow sound : BLEAT
2
Hip-moving dance : RUMBA
3
Postulate : AXIOM
4
Helpful librarians : DELVERS
5
Dilettantes : DABSTERS
6
Baseball family name : ALOU
7
Merrill's milieu : VERSE
8
Bungling : INEPT
9
"Perils of Pauline" was one : SERIAL
10
Encompassing : AMBIENT
11
Farmland tower : SILO
12
Bedazzle : STUN
13
Ess follower : TEE
21
Superlative endings : ESTS
22
Apr. computers : CPAS
26
"Star Wars" captain : SOLO
28
Area ___ : CODE
29
City in Sicily : ENNA
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Actor Connery : SEAN
31
Lower corner of a square sail : CLEW
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Renoir's "Dans la ___" : LOGE
33
Pearl Mosque city : AGRA
34
It fits a thole : OAR
35
Aerosol output : MIST
39
Storms from the Arctic : NORTHERS
42
Obvious : EVIDENT
43
Prefix with scope : TELE
45
Early New Deal org. : NIRA
46
Small upswing on Wall Street : BOOMLET
48
Deep distress : SORROW
51
Metric measure : STERE
52
Gardner's "___ Calls It Murder" : THEDA
54
Likeness : IMAGE
55
Actor McCarthy : KEVIN
56
"There's no music in ___ ... ": Ruskin : AREST
57
"Do ___ others ... " : UNTO
58
Avant-garde : NEOS
59
Green preceder : EVER
60
Cartoonist who created "Hazel" : KEY

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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