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Margaret W. Huskey
Margaret W. Huskey

New York Times, Friday, June 2, 1989

47-Down : Tire parts

Author:
Margaret W. Huskey
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { H J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 255 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 61, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Margaret W. Huskey has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,451
Across
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Camel's-hair garments : ABAS
5
Killer of Adonis : BOAR
9
TV's "The Love ___" : BOAT
13
Andrews or Wynter : DANA
14
W.W. I battle site : SOMME
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Pawnee's friend : OTOE
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"Thanks ___" : ALOT
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Make joyful : ELATE
18
Marriage symbol : RING
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Matrimonial official : MINISTER
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Armed ___ : FORCES
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Prepares flax : RETS
24
Architect Saarinen : EERO
25
Temper : ANNEAL
28
Scattered, as petals at a marriage : STREWED
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Vintage car : REO
32
Earn : MERIT
34
Antitoxin : SERUM
36
Swiss river : AARE
38
Pave a road again : RETAR
40
Las ___ (12:00, in Spain) : DOCE
41
June V.I.P. : BRIDE
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Fundamental : BASAL
45
Slump : SAG
46
Amble : SAUNTER
48
Victoria Principal role : PAMELA
50
About: Abbr. : CIRC
51
Radamès's love : AIDA
52
"I Love a ___" : PARADE
55
June events : WEDDINGS
59
Revise : EDIT
60
" ... to fetch ___ of water" : APAIL
62
Memorable Surrealist : DALI
63
Josip Broz : TITO
64
Lure : DECOY
65
Hot place : OVEN
66
Old or young follower : STER
67
W African group : SUSU
68
Bogs : FENS
Down
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The first lover : ADAM
2
Romantic island : BALI
3
Juliet's word to her nurse : ANON
4
Silographer's forte : SATIRE
5
Tree trunks : BOLES
6
Persian poet who wrote about love : OMAR
7
Bu. or pk. : AMT
8
Woman's double-breasted coat : REEFER
9
" ... ___, something blue" : BORROWED
10
Auricular : OTIC
11
Top-notch : AONE
12
Young sheep : TEGS
14
Pioneer : SETTLER
20
Part of a baseball : SEAM
22
Stibnite and galena : ORES
24
Miss Kett et al. : ETTAS
25
Valentino role : ARAB
26
Comes close : NEARS
27
Water wheel : NORIA
28
Shankar instrument : SITAR
29
Shaped unevenly : EROSE
30
Almost princely : DUCAL
33
Middle Ages instrument : REBEC
35
Kind of cycle or phone : MEGA
37
Horace Mann, e.g. : EDUCATOR
39
How the express travels : RAPIDLY
42
Camelot lady : ENID
44
Alan or Cheryl : LADD
47
Tire parts : TREADS
49
___ honor (nuptials figure) : MAIDOF
51
Vowel sequence : AEIOU
52
Fondles : PETS
53
Opposite of exit : ADIT
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Matrimony is one : RITE
55
Women soldiers : WACS
56
Church part : NAVE
57
Small valley : GLEN
58
Does wrong : SINS
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Little, in Paris : PEU

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1 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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