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Christine Tilgner
Christine Tilgner

New York Times, Wednesday, February 6, 1985

58-Down : Beatty movie

Author:
Christine Tilgner
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J K Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 2, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Christine Tilgner has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,874
Across
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Dummies : SAPS
5
Legal offenses : MALA
9
Fleece : SHEAR
14
Viva voce : ORAL
15
Suffix for axiom : ATIC
16
Nickname for a new prince : HARRY
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Ind. city : PERU
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Strawberry patch? : SHEA
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Incensed : IRATE
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Manacles manipulator : HARRYHOUDINI
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Tennyson product : POEM
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Abstract being : ENS
25
Airport label for Caracas : CCS
28
Essen exclamation : ACH
31
Fodder for Freud : DREAMS
33
Paducah's river : OHIO
34
Macbeth title : THANE
36
New York inst. : LIU
37
Wood: Comb. form : LIGN
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Politician, publisher and P.M. : HAROLDMACMILLAN
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Heroic poetry : EPOS
43
Corrode : EAT
44
Framework : CADRE
45
Colorful river : NILE
46
December sight : CRECHE
49
Part of i.e. : EST
50
To boot : AND
51
Pop's partner : MOM
52
Author Rand et al. : AYNS
54
Screenwriter for "Accident": 1967 : HAROLDPINTER
59
European heath : BRIER
62
Lover's sound : SIGH
63
Without, in Dresden : OHNE
64
Corporate checkup : AUDIT
65
Gen. Robert ___ : ELEE
66
Foray : RAID
67
Malamud product : STORY
68
Pool in a range : TARN
69
Completes : ENDS
Down
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One of the recent frosh : SOPH
2
Kind of code : AREA
3
Henry VIII's last wife : PARR
4
Drink noisily : SLURP
5
Kitchen utensil : MASHER
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Reception : ATHOME
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Place : LIEU
8
Brahms's "___ Festival" : ACADEMIC
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Climbs, in a way : SHINS
10
Spydom's Zelle : HARI
11
Failed amendment : ERA
12
Cinematics, e.g. : ART
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Caulfield's spot : RYE
21
Vaud vibrato : YODEL
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Briefly : INSUM
25
With 30 Down, Byronic pilgrim : CHILDE
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Cheroots : CIGARS
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Petrarch specialty : SONNET
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Adviser to Odysseus : ATHENA
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"Motherhood" painter : CHAPIN
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See 25 Down : HAROLD
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Having wings : ALATE
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Stewpot : OLLA
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Kind of cone or dive : NOSE
39
Inigo Jones concern : DECOR
40
Long-tailed monkey : MARMOSET
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Tribe conquered by the Romans : ICENI
47
Sponge : CADGER
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Well-known mark : HYPHEN
51
Chayefsky's butcher : MARTY
53
Zzzzz : SNORE
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Prince Charles is one : HEIR
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Actress Kedrova : LILA
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Larger ___ life : THAN
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Author Bagnold : ENID
58
Beatty movie : REDS
59
___-relief : BAS
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Boring routine : RUT
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Half a musical title : IDO

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

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