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James L. Beatty
James L. Beatty

New York Times, Thursday, December 1, 1988

28-Down : Gritty flutists?

Author:
James L. Beatty
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 253 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
James L. Beatty has 18 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,268
Across
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Abrades : RASPS
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British cleaning woman : CHAR
10
Card game : SKAT
14
His Monday is our Sunday : ASIAN
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Game divided into chukkers : POLO
16
Prong : TINE
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Nocturnal tooters? : HORNEDOWLS
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Keleps : ANTS
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Freshen : RENEW
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Ophthalmologist's concern : EYESIGHT
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Goddess of the rainbow : IRIS
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Young hood's neighborhood : TURF
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"I am the ___ of Sharon ... " : ROSE
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Deny : NEGATE
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Fury : IRE
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Actor Sharif : OMAR
36
Jubilant : ELATED
37
To be, in Veracruz : SER
38
Parsonage : MANSE
40
Make into a knight : DUB
41
Allen or Frome : ETHAN
43
Song in "A Chorus Line" : AND
44
The highest point : APOGEE
47
Neural network : RETE
48
Tuck's companion : NIP
49
Most tractable : TAMEST
50
Tax shelters, for short : IRAS
51
Path for Pompey : ITER
53
Soviet city : TULA
55
Electrical current's strength : AMPERAGE
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Stupid : DENSE
62
What Lear's pobble lacks : TOES
63
Some N.F.L. skinheads? : BALDEAGLES
66
Civil wrong : TORT
67
Division of a leaf : LOBE
68
Lines of type : SLUGS
69
Bear on high : URSA
70
Zest : ELAN
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Concise : TERSE
Down
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Cheer word : RAH
2
Hebrew lyre : ASOR
3
Beget : SIRE
4
Baskets : PANNIERS
5
Scoff : SNEER
6
U.S.N. noncom : CPO
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He put ma in stitches : HOWE
8
Friend in a fray : ALLY
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Circular architectural ornament : ROSETTE
10
Kind of case or way : STAIR
11
Royal angler? : KINGFISHER
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Flower: Comb. form : ANTH
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Dry run : TEST
18
Waste away, in Yorkshire : DWINE
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Leather that swayed Elvis? : SUEDE
24
Rarely : SELDOM
26
___ candle : ROMAN
27
Native of an Arabian sultanate : OMANI
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Gritty flutists? : SANDPIPERS
30
Measurement for a shotgun barrel : GAUGE
31
Under most favorable conditions : ATBEST
33
Gaucho's rope : REATA
34
Piscivorous fliers : ERNES
39
Gourmand : EATER
42
Percussion instrument : TRIANGLE
45
Allegorical story : PARABLE
46
Practice piece : ETUDE
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Seed coat : TESTA
54
Describing some bitterns and flycatchers : LEAST
55
Aleutian island : ATTU
56
Fix firmly : MOOR
57
Jail for Wilde : GAOL
58
Italian island : ELBA
60
Vilipend : SLUR
61
Records of brain elec. activity : EEGS
64
Kind of mother : DEN
65
Reno-to-Las Vegas dir. : SSE

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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