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Christopher Sherwood
Christopher Sherwood

New York Times, Tuesday, July 25, 1989

9-Down : "A ___ Life," 1939 film

Author:
Christopher Sherwood
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 1
Christopher Sherwood has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,504
Across
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Whitish powder : TALC
5
Time and neutral followers : ZONES
10
Milling byproduct : BRAN
14
Medley : OLIO
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Cool one's heels : AWAIT
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Etna's output : LAVA
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Utah city : MOAB
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Amazon tributary : NEGRO
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Parrots : APES
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Colorful garments in Cancún : SERAPES
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A daughter of Agamemnon : ELECTRA
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Part of a trek : LEG
25
Wapiti : ELK
26
Furniture bottoms, sometimes : CASTERS
30
Gumshoe : SNOOPER
34
Letters for Margaret : HRH
35
Nitpicking : PETTY
37
Angel in white : NURSE
38
Don José's emotion : AMOR
40
Green : YOUNG
42
Parimutuel recording device, for short : TOTE
43
Changed residences : MOVED
45
End at an early stage : ABORT
47
Foundation : BED
48
Act like an oracle : PREDICT
50
Casino employees : DEALERS
52
Benny's Maxwell : CAR
53
Barely make do : EKE
54
Sherwood Forest's Will : SCARLET
58
Covering for Larry Bird's foot : SNEAKER
62
Mississippi tributary : OHIO
63
Do an accounting job : AUDIT
65
Emperor after Claudius I : NERO
66
Pops : DADS
67
"Mack the ___" : KNIFE
68
Midterm, for example : TEST
69
Olympic hawk : ARES
70
The fat man in red : SANTA
71
Cheers in Toledo : OLES
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Male turkeys : TOMS
2
Lotion ingredient : ALOE
3
Speaker with forked tongue : LIAR
4
Shade of blue : COBALT
5
"... Purple Sage" author : ZANEGREY
6
Is in the red : OWES
7
Broken-down thoroughbred : NAG
8
Green isle : EIRE
9
"A ___ Life," 1939 film : STOLEN
10
Power failure : BLACKOUT
11
Engrossed : RAPT
12
State : AVER
13
Its red-letter day was in July 1969 : NASA
21
Bird sound : PEEP
23
College in the Tarheel State : ELON
26
Wearer of a crown : CHAMP
27
Galahad's garb : ARMOR
28
Push roughly : SHOVE
29
Brown-furred ermine : STOAT
30
Religious council : SYNOD
31
Investigate : PROBE
32
Perfume basis : ESTER
33
Attachments on clarinets : REEDS
36
Vessel for butter : TUB
39
Organization founded in 1864 : REDCROSS
41
Chop-suey companion : GREENTEA
44
Control : DIAL
46
Booty : TAKE
49
Sounds old : CREAKS
51
Shed : LEANTO
54
Fountain drink : SODA
55
Scorch : CHAR
56
Nye, to Napoleon : AIDE
57
Bluefin : TUNA
58
Separate carefully : SIFT
59
Boat-bottom timber : KEEL
60
Language for 8 Down : ERSE
61
Decomposes : ROTS
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Heavy metal, to many listeners : DIN

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