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Mary M. Murdoch
Mary M. Murdoch

New York Times, Friday, December 9, 1988

41-Down : Textile fiber

Author:
Mary M. Murdoch
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Mary M. Murdoch has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,276
Across
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Acronym for a clause in a union contract : COLA
5
Cow and field followers : PEAS
9
Overweight : OBESE
14
Sherman Hemsley vehicle on TV : AMEN
15
Kilmer's rhyme for "rain" : LAIN
16
Gordon and Roman : RUTHS
17
Diagonal : BIAS
18
Woody's son : ARLO
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Barber's need : STROP
20
Leroy Anderson opus : THETYPEWRITER
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Asian tongue : LAO
24
Hindu god of bad luck : SANI
25
Fabrics' meas. : YDS
28
___ the finish : INAT
31
Sgt., e.g. : NONCOM
35
___ a limb : OUTON
37
British servicewoman : WAAC
39
Unit of loudness : SONE
40
Epithet for Pope John Paul II : KEEPEROFTHEKEYS
43
Unicorn fish : UNIE
44
___ Peak, in the Sierra Nevada : ALTA
45
Parachute material : NYLON
46
Kind of opus : MAGNUM
48
Battle site: 1944 : STLO
50
"A Boy Named ___" : SUE
51
Writer Bagnold : ENID
53
Island off Jutland : ALS
55
Borge needs : CONCERTGRANDS
61
One of the Gabors : MAGDA
62
Flag : IRIS
63
Art Deco name : ERTE
65
Chandler's "The Big ___" : SLEEP
66
Transportation for Tarzan : VINE
67
Haven of a sort : LAIR
68
Coasters : SLEDS
69
Painter Schiele : EGON
70
Vega's constellation : LYRA
Down
1
Semi compartment : CAB
2
Exclude : OMIT
3
Jacob's first wife : LEAH
4
Photographer Adams : ANSEL
5
___ words (pun) : PLAYON
6
Wild West name : EARP
7
Ange appendage : AILE
8
Causes of wonderlands? : SNOWS
9
Duke in "Twelfth Night" : ORSINO
10
Kibitzer : BUTTINSKY
11
Raison d'___ : ETRE
12
Memorable restaurateur : SHOR
13
Test type at Duke U. : ESP
21
Hippolyte, the philosopher-critic : TAINE
22
Southfork, e.g. : RANCH
25
Comics name : YOKUM
26
Spanish landlady : DUENA
27
Cartoonist William : STEIG
29
M.P.'s quarry : AWOL
30
Noted Ohio family : TAFTS
32
Oriental cuckoos: Var. : COELS
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"The joke's ___!" : ONYOU
34
Feudal lord : MESNE
36
Like some debates : OPENENDED
38
Rat tail : ATAT
41
Textile fiber : RAMIE
42
___ Gay, Col. Tibbets's plane : ENOLA
47
Opens a bottle : UNCAPS
49
Jack London's Wolf ___ : LARSEN
52
Get-up-and-go : DRIVE
54
Fishhook attachment : SNELL
55
Visit : CALL
56
Pointed arch : OGEE
57
Kin of alg. : TRIG
58
Football Hall of Famer Marchetti : GINO
59
Squirrel's nest : DRAY
60
Brouhaha : STIR
61
Eds.' concerns : MSS
64
An interest of NOW : ERA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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