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Harriet Gilson Rosenberg
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg

New York Times, Wednesday, July 23, 1980

5-Down : Con man's trio

Author:
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 7, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg has 24 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,215
Across
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"The die is ___!" : CAST
5
Pretense : SHAM
9
Figaro's land : SPAIN
14
Penny ___ : ANTE
15
Table d'___ : HOTE
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Dress material : TULLE
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Condemnation : DOOM
18
Arthurian lady : ENID
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Papal scarf : ORALE
20
Neatly done : INAPPLEPIEORDER
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Wriggling : EELY
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Vulgarian : CAD
25
Lagomorphs : HARES
27
Awn : ARISTA
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Kind of eclipse : SOLAR
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Patterns used by sign painters : STENCILS
34
City on the Mediterranean : ORAN
35
Won at chess : MATED
37
Desire : URGE
38
William H. Seward's $7,200,000 recommendation: 1867 : PURCHASE
40
Farm sound : BLEAT
41
Daubs : SMEARS
42
Deceitful : FALSE
43
She, in Bremen : SIE
44
Cattle, to Cowper : KINE
45
Kind of complexion : PEACHESANDCREAM
53
Shaping machine : LATHE
54
Vehicle akin to a cutter : SLED
55
Classic villain : IAGO
56
Tanglefoot, e.g. : ASTER
57
Useful Lat. finale : ETAL
58
Namesakes ever since Eden : EVES
59
Lachrymose : TEARY
60
County in Florida : DADE
61
Withered : SERE
Down
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Moslem magistrate : CADI
2
Later : ANON
3
Portico for Plato : STOA
4
Part of W.C.T.U. : TEMPERANCE
5
Con man's trio : SHELLS
6
Proverbial fly catcher : HONEY
7
Eagerly expecting : ATIP
8
Dose : MEDICATE
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Substituted (for) : STOODIN
10
Sound of contentment : PURR
11
"When I was ___ ... ": Gilbert : ALAD
12
That one, to Tacitus : ILLE
13
At no time, poetically : NEER
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Equal : PEER
22
Kind of seal : EARED
25
Son of Osiris : HORUS
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Frighten : ALARM
28
Rooms for cleaning pots and pans : SCULLERIES
29
Whitewalls or radials : TIRES
30
Kelp and Irish moss : ALGAE
31
Weakling : SOP
32
Between Sault and Marie : STE
33
Harden : SET
35
Girl in a Berlin song : MARIE
36
Imposed, as a fine : ASSESSED
39
Quick-lunch place : HASHERY
40
Judge's bench : BANC
42
Nero's instrument : FIDDLE
44
"I ___ You Now," masseur's song : KNEAD
45
Small piece of ground : PLAT
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"Take thine ___ ... ": Luke 12:19 : EASE
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"___ boy!" : ATTA
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Chastity's mother : CHER
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Ski resort in Utah : ALTA
50
Roof part : EAVE
51
Dyeing apparatus : AGER
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Old man in a song : MOSE

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