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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Friday, August 4, 1989

45-Down : Meal check

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q U X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 58, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,514
Across
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Secret plot : CABAL
6
Became ghostly : PALED
11
Put down : ABASE
12
Emulate W. J. Bryan : ORATE
13
Fixed charge : FEE
16
Conventicle participants : SECTS
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Laterally : SIDEWARDS
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Sommer from Berlin : ELKE
20
Shortened Latin catchall : ETAL
21
Lane of The Daily Planet : LOIS
22
Sellout signs : SROS
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Maid, to Pierre : SERVANTE
27
Scalloped : CRENATE
30
Jefferson was one : DEIST
31
Motoring gp. : AAA
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Actress Hayworth : RITA
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Ill. city or county : DEKALB
37
The Great Commoner : PITT
39
Where Valletta is : MALTA
41
Blue dye : ANIL
42
___ Doria, ill-fated vessel : ANDREA
44
Early inhabitant of Britain : PICT
46
Hereditary factor, for short : DNA
47
Rodeo gear : RIATA
49
Positions at the plate : STANCES
51
Followers of corn or clam : FRITTERS
54
Oscar relative : OBIE
55
Bathe : LAVE
56
Suffix for poll : STER
58
"The King ___" : ANDI
61
Cohan song : OVERTHERE
64
John Lithgow is one : ACTOR
65
Mystery writer Wahloo : PER
66
___-law (Jacob, to Laban) : SONIN
67
Event at ancient Troy : SIEGE
68
Coop sounds : PEEPS
69
"The Lady ___," 1935 song : INRED
Down
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Word in many a Gardner title : CASE
2
Former labor leader : ABEL
3
Obnoxious car passenger : BACKSEATDRIVER
4
Aft : ASTERN
5
___ Paul, popular guitarist : LES
6
Emily or Wiley : POST
7
President of Costa Rica : ARIAS
8
Served soup : LADLED
9
"Lumière d'___," 1943 film : ETE
10
Kind of drop : DEW
13
Command of a sort : FRONTANDCENTER
14
An anagram for diet : EDIT
15
Chimney on das Haus : ESSE
18
Site of a 1989 oil spill : ALASKA
20
Guess : ESTIMATE
23
Propel a randan : OAR
25
Diaskeuast : REDACTOR
26
Life, in Lyon : VIE
27
Matador's cloak : CAPA
28
Jeanne Eagels vehicle: 1922 : RAIN
29
Greek letter : ETA
33
Jungfrau is one : ALP
35
Equator, figuratively : LINE
36
Gil ___ (Lesage hero) : BLAS
38
More hackneyed : TRITER
40
Scale notes : TIS
43
Gormandize : EAT
45
Meal check : TAB
48
Leblanc's sleuth ___ Lupin : ARSENE
50
Component of vitamin B complex : NIACIN
51
Broadway bomb : FLOP
52
Utter words that are absurd : RAVE
53
Uncover : STRIP
57
Nightfalls, to Byron : EENS
59
Onetime Genoa official : DOGE
60
Angered : IRED
62
Recipe amt. : TSP
63
Rotary-press inventor : HOE
64
This way, in Toledo : ASI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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