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Gayle Dean
Gayle Dean

New York Times, Saturday, June 6, 1987

48-Down : Country house

Author:
Gayle Dean
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.68, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Gayle Dean has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 5 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,724
Across
1
Note : MEMO
5
Wild try : STAB
9
Sober : STAID
14
Norse god : ODIN
15
Nap : PILE
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"___ Lane," Beatles song : PENNY
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Parnassian number : NINE
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Scold : RATE
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Indian or orange : OSAGE
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Catchall abbr. : ETC
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Spartan : BARE
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Fled : BOLTED
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Start of an Emerson quote : THEREWARDOFA
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Troubles : AILS
27
Tax gp. : IRS
28
Ghazel : ODE
31
Stigma : STAIN
34
Porter : ALE
35
Menilite : OPAL
36
Quote: Part II : THINGWELLDONEIS
40
Weird : EERY
41
Mo. neighbor : ILL
42
Wash cycle : RINSE
43
Nursery item : TOY
44
Part of T.G.I.F. : ITS
45
Step, in Sonora : PASO
47
End of quote : TOHAVEDONEIT
52
Ridicule : DERIDE
55
Red curtain material? : IRON
56
Sleeve nestler : ACE
57
Seemingly good excuse : ALIBI
58
Become dim : BLUR
59
Jejune : ARID
60
Mature : RIPEN
61
Actress Sommer : ELKE
62
Be up in the air : PEND
63
Something indisputable : TASTE
64
Negatives in Nairn : NAES
65
Tense : EDGY
Down
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"Water Lilies" painter : MONET
2
A Bunker : EDITH
3
Chop : MINCE
4
Low rating : ONE
5
Urban problem : SPRAWL
6
Chaplets : TIARAS
7
Change : ALTER
8
Mason or karbi : BEE
9
Satires : SPOOFS
10
Famed Edison Co. employee : TESLA
11
Sister of Baal : ANAT
12
Photographer Morath : INGE
13
Tinted : DYED
21
"___ There," Kosinski novel : BEING
22
World-weary : BORED
24
Canada-U.S. river : RAINY
25
Only Englishman buried in Arlington : DILL
28
Cafe sign : OPEN
29
Platform : DAIS
30
Other : ELSE
31
Printer's mark : STET
32
Kojak : THEO
33
Unsubstantial : AIRY
34
Tennis term : ALL
35
It's "held" in diners : ONION
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Willow twig : WITHE
38
Steber role : ELSA
39
Welles or Bean : ORSON
44
Antiseptic : IODINE
45
Wig for Washington : PERUKE
46
Dotes on : ADORES
47
Lama's land : TIBET
48
Country house : VILLA
49
Having handles : EARED
50
Cake topper : ICING
51
Presidential nickname : TEDDY
52
Flit : DART
53
Former A.L. manager : ELIA
54
Tears : RIPS
58
Artist Shahn : BEN
59
Simian : APE

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