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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Wednesday, August 31, 1988

4-Down : Plan

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J K Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 306 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,176
Across
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Jean de Brunhoff creation : BABAR
6
Brow wiper's sigh : WHEW
10
Thespian cutup : HAM
13
Miss Scarlett : OHARA
14
Buenos ___ : AIRES
16
Famed ring name : ALI
17
Buffoon : MERRYANDREW
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"Oui ou ___?" : NON
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Sugar-cane leftovers : BAGASSE
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Polyurethane fiber : SPANDEX
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Delightful place : EDEN
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Set of doctrines : ISM
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Remain : STAY
27
Understood : GOT
29
Behind the scenes : OFFSTAGE
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Golfer Lee : ELDER
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Woody's son : ARLO
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Phillips University is here : ENID
38
Actress Zadora : PIA
39
Supermarket clerks, often : BAGGERS
42
Genes material : DNA
43
Rascals : IMPS
45
Stalemate : DRAW
46
Vast chasm, to the Bard : ABYSM
48
Hooded cloak : CAPUCHIN
50
Eureka Springs, e.g. : SPA
51
He created Perry and Della : ERLE
52
Mule of folk song : SAL
54
Okinawa seaport : NAHA
58
Some sleeves end here : FOREARM
61
Hung : DANGLED
63
State further : ADD
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O.S.S. successor : CIA
67
Swagger : STRUT
68
Sierra ___ : LEONE
69
King beater, in pinochle : TEN
70
Rival of Nadia : OLGA
71
Organic compound : ESTER
Down
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Frozen dessert : BOMBE
2
Winning : AHEAD
3
Sight on the Chesapeake : BARGE
4
Plan : ARRANGE
5
Light lines : RAYS
6
Declines : WANES
7
Concealed : HID
8
Is mistaken : ERRS
9
___ joy (is ecstatic) : WEEPSFOR
10
Novel by Samuel Lover : HANDYANDY
11
Spiny plant : ALOE
12
Saucy young woman : MINX
15
Emulates Ruth : SWATS
18
___ were (so to speak) : ASIT
22
Tiny Archibald of N.B.A. fame : NATE
25
Some saddle horses : MORGANS
28
Sphere : ORB
30
Went like the wind : FLEW
31
"And Phoebus ___ arise": Shak. : GINS
32
Dutch export : EDAM
33
Grandiose : EPIC
34
City in Ohio : LIMA
35
Foppish clotheshorse : DAPPERDAN
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Fields, to Agrippina : AGRI
40
Support strongly : ADHERETO
41
Tree's life blood : SAP
44
"Betcha boots!" : SURE
47
Bracelet's charms : BANGLES
49
Chelae : CLAWS
50
Picnic dish, for short : SLAW
53
Innermost shrines : ADYTA
55
Portion out : ALLOT
56
German poet-essayist : HEINE
57
"Do, ___ ... " : ADEER
58
Bit of truth : FACT
59
Comic-strip canine : ODIE
60
Crumbly soil : MARL
62
Khartoum's river : NILE
65
Spot for a snug bug : RUG

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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