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Christopher Sherwood
Christopher Sherwood

New York Times, Wednesday, July 5, 1989

4-Down : Knockdown pitch, in baseball jargon

Author:
Christopher Sherwood
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.76, Missing: { B J K Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 2
Christopher Sherwood has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,484
Across
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Beach-party edible : CLAM
5
Cousins of pfennige : CENTS
10
Sunbathers' aims : TANS
14
Sharpen : HONE
15
Triple Crown winner: 1935 : OMAHA
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Boa or stole : WRAP
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Playwrights' "innings" : ACTS
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Having an edge in experience : WISER
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New Rochelle institution : IONA
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George H. Ruth : THESULTANOFSWAT
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Sale words : ASIS
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Goofball : NUT
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Kind of mask or tent : OXYGEN
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Ramble; stray : DIGRESS
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Unshackle : FREE
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Dixie side dish : GRITS
35
Pi follower : RHO
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Gaelic cap : TAM
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Washington note : ONE
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Ship's tail : AFT
40
Popular shrub : YEW
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Imprint : STAMP
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Tinker, Evers and Chance : TRIO
45
Brandy vessel : SNIFTER
47
Cowhand's tool : LARIAT
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Stickum : GOO
50
Half: Prefix : HEMI
51
Tyrus R. Cobb : THEGEORGIAPEACH
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Cooperstown building : HALL
60
Bell sounds : PEALS
61
One concern of a derby bettor : SIRE
62
Map dot : ISLE
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Armstrong's craft : EAGLE
64
Poon or roble : TREE
65
Sopwith Camel contemporary : SPAD
66
Marines' ___ blues : DRESS
67
Brando's "One-___ Jacks" : EYED
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Causerie : CHAT
2
Lake, to a Scot : LOCH
3
Bellum beginning : ANTE
4
Knockdown pitch, in baseball jargon : MESSAGE
5
Engine covering : COWLING
6
Releases : EMITS
7
Voyager agency : NASA
8
At the moment : THEN
9
Polynesian skirts : SARONGS
10
Prairie peril : TWISTER
11
How bench jockeys might sit : AROW
12
Wendy Darling's pooch : NANA
13
Lovers' quarrel : SPAT
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Purpose : USE
22
Kolinsky or chinchilla : FUR
25
"___ in the Stilly Night," T. Moore poem : OFT
26
Diagnostic aids : XRAYS
27
Sana's locale : YEMEN
28
Jordanian dollar : DINAR
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Columnist's detail : ITEM
30
Ventriloquist Lewis : SHARI
31
Capital of Bulgaria : SOFIA
34
Kyle or Tobin of the gridiron : ROTE
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Diaper wearer : TOT
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Moved quickly from side to side : WIGGLED
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Bent over : STOOPED
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Brings joy : PLEASES
44
Mediterranean gulf : TRIESTE
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Hannibal, to Scipio Africanus : FOE
48
Electrical meas. : AMP
50
Rome has seven : HILLS
51
"Now hear ___!" : THIS
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Trunk fastener : HASP
53
Singer Fitzgerald : ELLA
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Bring up : REAR
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Sign of a challenge : GAGE
56
Light; unsubstantial : AIRY
57
Canadian aborigine : CREE
58
Take advice seriously : HEED

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