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Caroline G. Fitzgerald
Caroline G. Fitzgerald

CALLING THE ROLE

New York Times, Sunday, October 4, 1987

70-Down : City east of Osaka

Author:
Caroline G. Fitzgerald
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 74, Avg Word Len: 5.32, Missing: { Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 565 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 131, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 16
Caroline G. Fitzgerald has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,844
Across
1
Fruit on a strawberry : ACHENE
7
Humbled : ABASED
13
Mottled : DAPPLED
20
Hymn tune : CHORAL
21
Sandbox edifice : CASTLE
22
Effacement : ERASURE
23
Justice Thurgood : COURTMARSHALL
25
Steinbeck's birthplace : SALINAS
26
Vocalized pauses : ERS
27
Actress Ruby : DEE
28
Steep hemp : RET
29
Auditor, for short : CPA
30
Solicit : ASK
31
Pinto : PIEBALD
35
Blackmore heroine : LORNA
37
What a backward star may cry : RATS
39
Puget Sound seaport : TACOMA
40
A conifer, to Fernando : PINO
41
Resident of Patna : BIHARI
43
Ethically neutral : AMORAL
44
Provided that, to Shakespeare : ANIF
45
P.G.A. Hall of Famer Jones : BOBOLINKS
48
Bird's org. : NBA
49
Hot milk and ale concoctions : POSSETS
51
Intimidates : AWES
52
Toque or gibus : HAT
53
___ rug (jitterbugs) : CUTSA
55
Notes added to notes: Abbr. : PSS
56
Money box : TILL
58
Pilose : HAIRY
60
Chimney, in Cottbus : ESSE
61
___ de coeur : CRI
62
Strikeout artist Morris : JACKINTHEBOX
65
Obvious : PLAIN
67
Ideal or trip preceder : EGO
68
___ ark : NOAHS
69
Hubert of the P.G.A. : PUTTINGGREEN
73
The horned horse : GNU
74
Explorer Johnson et al. : OSAS
78
Famed leading lady Ada : REHAN
79
First known variable star : MIRA
80
Roguish : SLY
81
Worn out : SPENT
82
Ferber's "___ Basket" : ONE
83
___ Islands, off Ireland : ARAN
85
Sainted wife of St. Adrian : NATALIA
88
V.P. under 89 Across : NAR
89
Gerald R., in his youth : MODELFORD
92
River celebrated by Burns : DOON
93
Medicinal ointment : OLEATE
95
Arctic parka : ANORAK
96
Steady : SURE
97
Apache tribesmen : TONTOS
98
Clement C. Moore opening : TWAS
99
Nice agreement : PACTE
101
Bikes for Daisy? : TANDEMS
102
Kid's cry : BAA
105
Good sense : WIT
106
Peace Nobelist: 1949 : ORR
107
Stop!: Var. : WOA
109
Puppeteer Baird : BIL
110
Hit song in 1953 : EBBTIDE
112
A Pulitzer Prize winner in Letters: 1980 : POETICJUSTICE
117
Hyde Park hostess : ELEANOR
118
Sham : PSEUDO
119
Prentiss and Stone of films : PAULAS
120
High, low and comic followers : RELIEFS
121
Distaff busybodies : YENTES
122
Guzzles : SWILLS
Down
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Belief in : ACCEPTANCE
2
Four-syllable foot : CHORIAMBUS
3
Fort Wayne's Congressman Dan R. : HOUSECOATS
4
Muff : ERR
5
Cole or Turner : NAT
6
One of the wahoos : ELM
7
Ten square chains : ACRE
8
Extremes at Wimbledon : BASELINES
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Silvery gray : ASH
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Oscar winner Burstyn : ELLEN
12
Kind of ray or wing : DELTA
13
Portray : DESCRIBE
14
Some Algonquians : ARAPAHOS
15
Sounded like the y in yet : PALATAL
16
Letter from Levkás : PSI
17
Selene, to a Roman : LUNA
18
Greek and Roman : ERAS
19
Lectern : DESK
24
Tot : ADD
32
Staten Isl. forms one : BOR
33
Its capital is Macapá : AMAPA
34
"Symphonie Espagnole" composer : LALO
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Step ___ (hurry) : ONIT
38
___ Lanka : SRI
40
Quarterback Malone : PASSINGMARK
41
Dennis of the P.B.A. : BOWLINGLANE
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Restraint of emotions: Abbr. : INHIB
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Thwart : BALK
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N.Z. tree : KARO
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Charon's river : STYX
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Youth : SPRIG
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Partitions : SEPTA
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Representation : ICON
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L.B.J.'s V.P. : HHH
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Fabulous fabulist : AESOP
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Pokey : CAN
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Gibe : JEER
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Alcohol of perfumery : NONYL
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Kind of cross : TAU
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"Chinatown Family" author ___ Yutang : LIN
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Ball for juniors : PROM
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City east of Osaka : UENO
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___ Bara, née Goodman : THEDA
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Sweet part of a kumquat : RIND
75
Lawmaker Bradley of N.J. : SENATEBILL
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Structural : ANATOMICAL
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Not accented : STRESSLESS
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Kind of sale : STOREWIDE
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Gallery : SALON
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"Who's ___ Virginia Woolf?" : AFRAIDOF
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Some chickens : ROASTERS
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Le huitième mois : AOUT
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Particle : IOTA
90
Tolkien's Treebeard, e.g. : ENT
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First run of the still : LOWWINE
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Peroration : END
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Flanders flower : POPPY
100
Stood : AROSE
101
Mahal leader : TAJ
102
Bock, e.g. : BEER
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Talented : ABLE
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Explorer Tasman : ABEL
108
Guatemalan port : OCOS
111
Siamese : TAI
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For shame! : TUT
114
Good times : UPS
115
Proverb : SAW
116
Parson bird : TUI

Answer summary:
13 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 12 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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