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Nancy Nicholson Joline
Nancy Nicholson Joline

New York Times, Saturday, February 25, 1989

50-Down : Describing the world's numbers

Author:
Nancy Joline
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 2, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Nancy Nicholson Joline has 61 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 48 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Nancy Joline is an alias for Nancy Nicholson Joline.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,354
Across
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Highway to Fairbanks : ALCAN
6
Pacific bark cloth : TAPA
10
DCII ÷ II : CCCI
14
Tynemouth truck : LORRY
15
Omani money : RIAL
16
Doctorow's "___ Lake" : LOON
17
Aussie bird : KOOKABURRA
19
Border on : ABUT
20
Social follower : ISM
21
Tree resin : LAC
22
Funny : RISIBLE
24
Emulated Ahab : WHALED
27
Primp : PREEN
28
Monty Python member : CLEESE
30
"The Fallen ___," 1948 film : IDOL
33
Buttons : RED
34
Oop's love : OOLA
35
Quagga or kob : ANIMAL
37
Unofficial Aussie anthem : WALTZINGMATILDA
43
Brazilian port : SANTOS
44
Israeli P.M.: 1969-74 : MEIR
45
TV networks' sine qua non : ADS
48
Seer's words : ISEE
49
"And the ___ talk only to God" : CABOTS
51
"The Merry Widow" composer : LEHAR
53
Israeli coastal plain : SHARON
55
Extant : PRESENT
58
Actress Hagen : UTA
59
Beard grown by farmers : AWN
62
Send forth : EMIT
63
Boisterous party, Down Under : CORROBOREE
66
Nettle : RILE
67
Roman emperor: A.D. 69 : OTHO
68
Ashley Wilkes's sister : INDIA
69
An anagram for rats : TSAR
70
Gershwin song: 1927 : SOON
71
Anglo-Saxon freeman : CEORL
Down
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Wash.'s state motto : ALKI
2
Lorelei Lee's creator : LOOS
3
Roundhead leader : CROMWELL
4
A neighbor of Miss. : ARK
5
African antelopes : NYALAS
6
Cease-fire : TRUCE
7
Tune : AIR
8
Young salmon : PARR
9
Turkish regiment : ALAI
10
Film director René : CLAIR
11
Aussie pal : COBBER
12
Small valley : COULEE
13
Mean : INTEND
18
Group of turtles : BALE
23
Sound of a dropped egg : SPLAT
25
Qualifying track events : HEATS
26
Cowards, Down Under : DINGOES
28
Burgess's purple one : COW
29
Seat of Wayne County, Utah : LOA
31
Fades : DIMS
32
German granny : OMA
35
Prefix with cede : ANTE
36
West Indies dance : LIMBO
38
Belgian Congo, today : ZAIRE
39
Officeholders : INS
40
Protégé of Lorenzo the Magnificent : LEONARDO
41
Morse-code word : DIT
42
"___ gratia artis" : ARS
45
Tijuana Brass man : ALPERT
46
Inner skin layer : DERMIS
47
Girl, in Aussie slanguage : SHEILA
49
Clouseau's servant : CATO
50
Describing the world's numbers : ARABIC
52
Poet follower : ASTER
54
Iroquoian Indian : HURON
56
Cpls. and sgts. : NCOS
57
Ms. Gale's dog : TOTO
60
Dam in a stream : WEIR
61
Oscar winner in "Hud": 1963 : NEAL
64
Pi follower : RHO
65
Moss Hart's "Act ___" : ONE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 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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