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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Friday, November 11, 1988

12-Down : Jungle denizen

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { H J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,248
Across
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Confectioner of a kind : ICER
5
Subject : TOPIC
10
Tucker's partner : BIB
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No-no : TABU
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Fla. city : OCALA
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Six, on a die : SISE
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Type of collar : ETON
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___ duck (waddles) : WALKSLIKEA
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Norman Mailer subject : MONROE
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Henie and Hamill : SKATERS
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___ ease (uncomfortable) : ILLAT
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Ait : ISLET
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He portrayed Alfie : CAINE
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Love apple : TOMATO
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Ladder tread : RUNG
33
Brenda of comics : STARR
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Alliance acronym : NATO
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Son of Seth : ENOS
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Thick-shelled clam : PISMO
40
But, in Bonn : ABER
41
Menace in Sicily : ETNA
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Exert influence over : ACTON
43
___ libre : VERS
44
Winter apple : RUSSET
46
Page number : FOLIO
47
Money-exchange premiums : AGIOS
50
Factotum : DOALL
52
Coleridge and Clemens : SAMUELS
55
Aerial bomb : ROCKET
59
Defend : STANDUPFOR
62
Prefix with freeze : ANTI
63
French department : NORD
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Mubarak's capital : CAIRO
65
Foot follower : NOTE
66
___ Lanka : SRI
67
Provide with funds : ENDOW
68
Due : OWED
Down
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Bit of gossip : ITEM
2
Inspector Clouseau's servant : CATO
3
"Psychic Warfare ... " author : EBON
4
Win with ease : RUNRINGSAROUND
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Throw in the ___ (give up) : TOWEL
6
Wood sorrel : OCA
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Buddy : PAL
8
Kinds : ILKS
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Tun : CASK
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Singer-actor Theodore : BIKEL
11
Rhone feeder : ISERE
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Jungle denizen : BEAST
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Is in a potentially dangerous spot : SITSONAVOLCANO
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Café additive : LAIT
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Corrida cry : OLE
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Cocklofts : ATTICS
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Drank to the health of : TOASTED
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Hudson Bay Indian : CREE
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Pittypat in "G.W.T.W." : AUNT
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Get ___ the ground floor : INON
30
Marquand sleuth : MRMOTO
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Presley's middle name, at birth : ARON
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Health spots : SPAS
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Inventor of cordite : ABEL
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Actress Garr : TERI
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Approximately : ORSO
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Secondhand : USED
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Ziegfeld : FLO
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Orgs. : ASSNS
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U. of Fla. athlete : GATOR
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Japanese porcelain : IMARI
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Quiver item : ARROW
53
Full-grown pike : LUCE
54
Nine inches : SPAN
56
___-Nothing party : KNOW
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Ending for Jean : ETTE
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All even : TIED
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Topmast support : FID
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Tahitian god : ORO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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