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Kenneth Witte
Kenneth Witte

New York Times, Thursday, May 9, 1991

25-Down : Gets one's feet wet

Author:
Kenneth Witte
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2
Kenneth Witte has 30 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,157
Across
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Priest at Lhasa : LAMA
5
Yugoslav native : SERB
9
Washington's follower : ADAMS
14
Iowa State Univ. locale : AMES
15
Husband of Judith : ESAU
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Gallic headgear : BERET
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Canter, e.g. : GAIT
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Similar : AKIN
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Egg-shaped : OVATE
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Shy one : SHRINKINGVIOLET
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"___ Woman," Reddy hit : IAM
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Actor Wallach : ELI
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She's not the belle of the ball : WALLFLOWER
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Weirs : DAMS
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Emulate Wrong Way Corrigan : AVIATE
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TV Tarzan : ELY
37
Scottish river : DEE
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Distaff Boone : DEBBY
39
Comic Conway : TIM
40
Rousseau's student : EMILE
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Miss the mark : ERR
43
Cavatina : AIR
44
Having wings : ALATED
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Ollie's partner : STAN
47
Easy life : BEDOFROSES
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Birds ___ feather : OFA
51
E.T.'s vehicle : UFO
52
Full of energy : ASFRESHASADAISY
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Camel's kin : LLAMA
62
Opposer : ANTI
63
Robin Cook thriller : COMA
64
Touching Phrygian : MIDAS
65
Cousin of a strada : ITER
66
Chemical compound : ENOL
67
Exhausted : SPENT
68
Warren Beatty film : REDS
69
Wise one : SAGE
Down
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Falls behind : LAGS
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Oriental nanny : AMAH
3
Golda of Israel : MEIR
4
Italian wine region : ASTI
5
Coastal plant : SEAKALE
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Ulu user : ESKIMO
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Type of check or gauge : RAIN
8
Keg stopper : BUNG
9
Intensely hot, in poesy : ABOIL
10
Empty : DEVOID
11
Soviet sea : ARAL
12
Boundary : METE
13
Editor's mark : STET
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Swell : NIFTY
22
Part of VHF : VERY
25
Gets one's feet wet : WADES
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Prevent : AVERT
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Zodiac's seventh sign : LIBRA
28
R.P.I. room : LAB
29
Bizarre : WEIRD
30
This may be slippery : ELM
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Mine entrances : ADITS
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Fracas : MELEE
34
Pips : SEEDS
39
Mexican standoff : TIE
40
Ex-Oriole Hendricks : ELROD
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Chiang foe : MAO
43
Opposite of "Vive!" : ABAS
44
Philanderer's foibles : AFFAIRS
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Golf's Great White Shark : NORMAN
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Drove out : OUSTED
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Hemingway's "A Moveable ___" : FEAST
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Handout : ALMS
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Lose one's balance : SLIP
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Wane : FADE
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Type of shirt or trigger : HAIR
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Poker prelude : ANTE
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Flying phenoms : ACES
58
Hebrides island : IONA
59
Big burg blight : SMOG
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Bush's alma mater : YALE

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