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Wilson McBeath
Wilson McBeath

New York Times, Wednesday, November 30, 1988

28-Down : Patois

Author:
Wilson McBeath
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { F J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Wilson McBeath has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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C
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P
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R
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N
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,267
Across
1
Busy people on Apr. 14 : CPAS
5
Gourd : PEPO
9
City near Gainesville : OCALA
14
Actor Ray : ALDO
15
Russian city : OREL
16
Emulated Al Unser : RACED
17
Orchard man's street in Atlanta? : PEACHTREE
19
Improve a book : EMEND
20
Gold coins : EAGLES
21
Tease : RIB
23
Pitching stats : ERAS
24
Beef animal : STEER
25
Draw back : RECOIL
27
Lyric poems : ODES
29
Suave : URBANE
33
Prevaricator : LIAR
37
Noun suffixes : IAS
38
"Scarce could ___ hold a quill": Blunden : READOR
39
Gaunt : ANGULAR
41
Inflammation : ABSCESS
42
Cure again : REHEAL
43
Greg Norman, for one : PRO
44
Patella site : KNEE
45
Loving term : DEARIE
46
Talk wildly : RANT
48
Corsage flower : ORCHID
50
Loosen : UNTIE
55
Philippine's Aquino, familiarly : CORY
58
Beret's cousin : TAM
59
Make sacred : ANOINT
60
Like bees : APIAN
62
Chicago square for fodder merchants? : HAYMARKET
64
Roman tunic : STOLA
65
Monad : ATOM
66
Withered : SERE
67
Ruhr city : ESSEN
68
"O tu che in ___ ... ": Verdi aria : SENO
69
Superlative endings : ESTS
Down
1
Ann and May : CAPES
2
Fold : PLEAT
3
Saw : ADAGE
4
Plinth : SOCLE
5
Chefs' containers : POTS
6
Transgress : ERR
7
Earl's spouse, e.g. : PEERESS
8
Relating to oil : OLEIC
9
Mesabi product : ORE
10
Nomad's street in Phoenix? : CAMELBACK
11
Maple genus : ACER
12
Chanteuse Horne : LENA
13
Supplements : ADDS
18
Audie Murphy was one : HERO
22
Beverage street in New Orleans? : BOURBON
25
Stern : REAR
26
Angers : IRES
28
Patois : DIALECT
30
Yemeni port : ADEN
31
Margin of victory, sometimes : NOSE
32
Gaelic : ERSE
33
Hog fat : LARD
34
Arrow poison : INEE
35
Moslem title : AGHA
36
Paris street for rois? : RUEROYALE
40
Den : LAIR
41
Rumanian city : ARAD
43
Archbishop : PRIMATE
47
Salad fish : TUNA
49
Sunken fences : HAHAS
51
Scandinavian : NORSE
52
Small children: Var. : TIKES
53
Adjective for neon : INERT
54
Feminine suffixes : ETTES
55
Instance : CASE
56
Chooses : OPTS
57
Spanish rivers : RIOS
59
Ashcans and pineapples : AMMO
61
Fabray, to friends : NAN
63
Hither and ___ : YON

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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