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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Friday, October 2, 1987

5-Down : Dilettantes

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
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Finishing nail : BRAD
5
Miles of jazz : DAVIS
10
Kind of prof : ASST
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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
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Crawford-MacMurray film: 1943 : ABOVESUSPICION
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Least feral : TAMEST
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Military storehouse : ETAPE
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195 and 40 : RTES
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Uhlan weapons : LANCES
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Ichabod Crane's domain : CLASSROOM
36
Journalist I. F. : STONE
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Nautical record : LOG
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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
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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
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Superlative endings : ESTS
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Apr. computers : CPAS
26
"Star Wars" captain : SOLO
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Area ___ : CODE
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City in Sicily : ENNA
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Actor Connery : SEAN
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Lower corner of a square sail : CLEW
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Renoir's "Dans la ___" : LOGE
33
Pearl Mosque city : AGRA
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It fits a thole : OAR
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Aerosol output : MIST
39
Storms from the Arctic : NORTHERS
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Obvious : EVIDENT
43
Prefix with scope : TELE
45
Early New Deal org. : NIRA
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Small upswing on Wall Street : BOOMLET
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Deep distress : SORROW
51
Metric measure : STERE
52
Gardner's "___ Calls It Murder" : THEDA
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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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