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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Saturday, March 26, 1988

16-Down : Ruhr city

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.50, Missing: { K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,018
Across
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Teamster's payload : CARGO
6
___ out (hang tough) : SWEAT
11
TV's Travanti : DANIEL
12
City on the Missouri : PIERRE
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First Emmy song hit: 1955 : LOVEANDMARRIAGE
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Straws in the wind : OMENS
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Donned : WORE
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Freeman Gosden role : AMOS
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Kernel : GIST
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Put in sync : TIMED
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___-aller (last resort) : PIS
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Cuckoo : ANI
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Partition : SEVER
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Pseudo : FALSE
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Leader of this century : NINETEEN
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Imposing : SOLEMN
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Actress Bennett : CONSTANCE
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Computer must : MEMORY
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Of sound : ACOUSTIC
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Allow as how : OPINE
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Master-tailors : CRABS
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Mrs. John Lennon : ONO
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A dialogue of Plato : ION
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House help : MAIDS
44
Early jazz : JIVE
45
Rabbit's tail : SCUT
47
Gainless : IDLE
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Packaged cotton : BALED
49
The Kramdens' sitcom : THEHONEYMOONERS
52
Block : STREET
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Extra page : INSERT
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Irrational numbers : SURDS
55
Polytypes : CASTS
Down
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Collapses : CAVESIN
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Respecting : ANENT
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Inlets : RIAS
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Bk. of the Bible : GEN
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Kind of tale : OLDWIVES
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Not so pursy : SPARER
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Provided power : WIRED
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Ending with rocket : EER
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"Un bel di," for one : ARIA
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Tread underfoot : TRAMPLE
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Part of A.D. : DOMINI
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I trouble : EGOISM
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"Picnic" director : LOGAN
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Any time now : MOMENTARILY
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Ruhr city : ESSEN
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Itty-bitty : TEENY
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Accumulation : STORE
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Heart; core : FOCUS
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City in S France : ALES
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Part of E.E.C. : ECON
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Thackeray's "The Book of ___" : SNOBS
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Kind of freedom : ACADEMIC
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Bedewed : MOIST
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Geological times : EPOCHS
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Colonial dances : MINUETS
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Breadwinners : TOILERS
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Turn upside down : INVERT
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Some Princetonians : COEDS
40
Younger sons : CADETS
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Burrowed : MINED
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Actress Leigh : JANET
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"Help Me Make It ___ the Night" : THRU
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Springsteen's sobriquet : BOSS
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"___ the land of ... " : OER
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"Come ___ My House" : ONA

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