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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Monday, November 12, 1990

47-Down : Cooked

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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N
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D
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G
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K
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,979
Across
1
Combos : BANDS
6
Breathe laboriously : GASP
10
Box : SPAR
14
Prufrock's creator : ELIOT
15
Movie dog : ASTA
16
Pa. city : ERIE
17
Speechless : TONGUETIED
19
Soggy ground : MIRE
20
Sailor : SEAMAN
21
Shows up : ARRIVES
23
Engraving, for one : ART
24
Swiss painter: 1879-1940 : KLEE
25
Summer drink : ADE
26
Beat or shoot preceder : OFF
29
Genuine : TRUE
31
Utah's Great ___ Lake : SALT
33
Word of grief : ALAS
35
Gibbons : APES
37
Twosome in Mecca : CEES
39
43
Sneak a look : PEEK
44
Trim : NEAT
45
Whiskies : RYES
46
Yuletide poem opener : TWAS
48
Coaster : SLED
50
Farm animal : EWE
51
G.I.'s mail address : APO
53
R.b.i., for one : STAT
55
Limb : ARM
57
One point, in tennis : FIFTEEN
59
Merchant : DEALER
63
Rush headlong : TEAR
64
Triumph in a close race : WINBYANOSE
67
___ homo : ECCE
68
Filmdom's Kazan : ELIA
69
Singer Ross : DIANA
70
Strong odor : REEK
71
Obligation : DEBT
72
Wallace associate : SAFER
Down
1
Gambles : BETS
2
Medicinal plant : ALOE
3
Actress Foch : NINA
4
Fixed belief : DOGMA
5
Portrait painter Gilbert ___ : STUART
6
Roscoe : GAT
7
"___ was saying ... " : ASI
8
Embezzle : STEAL
9
San Diego nine : PADRES
10
Half: Prefix : SEMI
11
12
Ventilated : AIRED
13
Pee Wee of the Dodgers : REESE
18
Snare : ENTRAP
22
Attain : REACH
24
Most acute : KEENEST
26
Durable wood : OAK
27
Toss : FLIP
28
In confrontation : FACETOFACE
30
Bone ___ (study) : UPON
32
Smirk's relative : LEER
34
Twist : SKEW
36
Close tightly : SEAL
38
Large number : SLEW
40
Imperial command : UKASE
41
Stable : STEADY
42
Köln-to-Bonn dir. : SSE
47
Cooked : STEWED
49
Fears greatly : DREADS
51
Look ___ (tend) : AFTER
52
Hunk : PIECE
54
Old-womanish : ANILE
56
Craze : MANIA
58
Arduous journey : TREK
60
Dawdle : LOAF
61
Slave of yore : ESNE
62
Raise : REAR
65
Sparrow's beak : NIB
66
Binge : BAT

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