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Johnson
Johnson

New York Times, Wednesday, November 18, 1987

6-Down : Loos and O'Day

Author:
Johnson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { J K Q U X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0
Johnson has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,889
Across
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Beach toy : PAIL
5
Small children : TADS
9
___ Dame : NOTRE
14
Piedmontese commune : ASTI
15
"___ penny, two a ... " : ONEA
16
N.Y. city : OLEAN
17
Page : LEAF
18
Kind of skirt : MINI
19
English woodland : WEALD
20
Capital of Ore. : SALEM
22
Distance: Comb. form : TEL
23
Fire-fighting needs : HOSES
24
Board game : SCRABBLE
27
Bakers' products : LOAVES
29
Sculler's implement : OAR
30
Filing aid : TAB
33
Ardent : FERVID
34
Team game : BASEBALL
36
Fits to ___ : ATEE
37
Friendly touch : PAT
38
Competent : ABLE
39
Parlor game : CHARADES
42
Susan Jaffe's milieu : BALLET
44
Poet Hughes : TED
45
Sword's superior : PEN
46
Race horse that has not won : MAIDEN
47
Card game : PINOCHLE
49
Interval : SPACE
53
Circle part : ARC
54
Ana or Barbara : SANTA
58
___ cotta : TERRA
59
Colt's mother : MARE
61
Equipment : GEAR
62
" ... a man without ___": Campbell : ATEAR
63
Handy abbr. : ETAL
64
Delicate fabric : LACE
65
Light rays : BEAMS
66
Appear : SEEM
67
A son of Aphrodite : EROS
Down
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Buddies : PALS
2
On the deep : ASEA
3
Verdi was one: Abbr. : ITAL
4
Swimming guard : LIFESAVER
5
Sawyer or Seaver : TOM
6
Loos and O'Day : ANITAS
7
Star in Cygnus : DENEB
8
Opposite of a stinkpot : SAILBOAT
9
Not at any place : NOWHERE
10
Spread of a sort : OLEO
11
Social affairs : TEAS
12
Respiratory sound : RALE
13
Purposes : ENDS
21
Twice DLIII : MCVI
25
Stop signal : RED
26
___ Palmas : LAS
27
River in Hades : LETHE
28
Mountain nymph : OREAD
30
Postpone : TABLE
31
He took Ticonderoga : ALLEN
32
Fruit decay : BLET
33
The real thing : FACT
34
Kind of relief : BAS
35
U.S. bird : BALDEAGLE
37
Elia and Carroll : PENNAMES
40
Is suddenly seen : APPEARS
41
The gods, to Cicero : DEI
42
Scrooge's word : BAH
43
Is unwell : AILS
46
Canadian physician-poet : MCCRAE
48
Imitate Demosthenes : ORATE
49
Wild try : STAB
50
Rose or Rozelle : PETE
51
Vicinity : AREA
52
Study hard : CRAM
55
In the neighborhood : NEAR
56
Cantina fare : TACO
57
Olympian hawk : ARES
60
Shade tree : ELM

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