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Betty Jorgensen
Betty Jorgensen

New York Times, Tuesday, May 12, 1992

11-Down : "I Enjoy Being ___"

Author:
Betty Jorgensen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Betty Jorgensen has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 8 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,526
Across
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Seating for the amen corner : PEWS
5
Bushy hairdos : AFROS
10
Old Polish woman : BABA
14
Yearn : ACHE
15
Raccoon's relative : COATI
16
Muslim generals : AGAS
17
Start of a quip : THATETYMOLOGIST
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"Some Like It ___" : HOT
21
Bucks' mates : DOES
22
Green, in Grenoble : VERTE
23
Frau's counterpart : HERR
24
Little Red Schoolhouse book : SPELLER
26
Engine-room aides : WIPERS
29
Whalers' casks : RIERS
30
Clay-footed one? : IDOL
31
Wasn't healthy : AILED
32
Seal school : POD
35
Quip: Part II : FEELINGSOPOORLY
39
Take sustenance : EAT
40
Golf course : LINKS
41
Fashion : MODE
42
Surface for bowlers : ALLEY
43
Dark glasses: Colloq. : SHADES
45
Hawthorne products : STORIES
48
Prepare mentally : PLAN
49
Black or Valentine : KAREN
50
Bart Simpson, for one : BRAT
51
Tease : RIB
54
End of the quip : ISANILLLITERATE
58
Lab heater : ETNA
59
Playwright's ploy : ASIDE
60
U.S. author: 1909-55 : AGEE
61
Parts of a div. : REGS
62
Fooled : DUPED
63
Saucy : PERT
Down
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Walkway : PATH
2
Canyon phenomenon : ECHO
3
One of a reporter's five W's : WHAT
4
Matched items : SET
5
Cast : ACTORS
6
Vestibule : FOYER
7
Butts : RAMS
8
A native American : OTO
9
Word in R.S.V.P. : SIL
10
Lox carriers : BAGELS
11
"I Enjoy Being ___" : AGIRL
12
Moisten the roast : BASTE
13
Michaelmas daisy : ASTER
18
River south of Kassel : EDER
19
Work too hard : OVERDO
23
Gehenna : HELL
24
Farm structures : SILOS
25
Look furtively : PEEP
26
Cher to Sonny, once : WIFE
27
Comic's light bulb : IDEA
28
Frost, for one : POET
29
Perilous : RISKY
31
Choreographer De Mille : AGNES
32
Spur : PROD
33
Word with shoppe : OLDE
34
Color changers : DYES
36
Fighting footballers : ILLINI
37
Aswan's river : NILE
38
Gulf sultanate : OMAN
42
Joe Louis and Omni : ARENAS
43
Scheduled : SLATED
44
" ... I ___ war": F.D.R. : HATE
45
Aspen aficionado : SKIER
46
Discernment : TASTE
47
Monkey's uncle? : ORANG
48
This often precedes a fall : PRIDE
50
Radar sight : BLIP
51
Fad : RAGE
52
Roman road : ITER
53
Bulbous vegetable : BEET
55
Shaver : LAD
56
Baton Rouge campus: Abbr. : LSU
57
Séance sound : RAP

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 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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