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Betty Jorgensen
Betty Jorgensen

New York Times, Thursday, September 28, 1989

43-Down : Puritanical person, to an Aussie

Author:
Betty Jorgensen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Betty Jorgensen has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 8 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,569
Across
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Muslim title of respect : AGHA
5
Trade center : MART
9
Door part : JAMB
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Duel starter : SLAP
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Came up : AROSE
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Operatic prince : IGOR
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Medical treatment ctr. : HOSP
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Old Nick : SATAN
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Weight allowance : TARE
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Homecoming husband calls: : WHATSFORDINNER
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Mother of Zeus : RHEA
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Standard of perfection : IDEAL
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Wife answers: : TAKEOUTHONEY
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Icelandic monetary units : KRONUR
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Brain tests: Abbr. : EEGS
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Pac.'s counterpart : ATL
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Joust : TILT
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Roof surfacing : TAR
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Cleaving tool : FROE
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Pedro or Bernardino : SAN
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She played Hot Lips : SWIT
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Deprived : BEREFT
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Husband asks: : WHICHTAKEOUT
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Set upright : STOOD
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Hone : WHET
48
Wife replies: : MESWEETHEARTME
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Baseball stats. : ERAS
54
Nickname for Col. Potter of "M*A*S*H" : SHERM
55
Smidgen : IOTA
57
Trigonometric function : SINE
58
Fla. city : TAMPA
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The Darlings' amah : NANA
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Long way away : AFAR
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Pitch : TOSS
62
Growl : GNAR
Down
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St. Helens's output : ASH
2
Radiate : GLOW
3
Last night's roast tonight : HASH
4
Obvious : APPARENT
5
Rubber : MASSEUR
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P.L.O. leader : ARAFAT
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Newspaper section, for short : ROTO
8
Peter or Ivan : TSAR
9
Small bus : JITNEY
10
Capital of Guam : AGANA
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Edible mushroom : MOREL
12
Brother, to Uncle Remus : BRER
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Finale : ENDING
21
Friends' pronoun : THOU
22
Unlucky time for Caesar : IDES
25
Annie Oakleys: Abbr. : TKTS
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Operatic highlight : ARIA
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Cologne, to Fritz : KOLN
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British Prime Minister: 1970-74 : HEATH
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Above, to F. S. Key : OER
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Mars: Comb. form : AREO
33
Bean curd : TOFU
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Baltic native : LETT
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Muscular spasm : TIC
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Stewing : FRETTING
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Cobbler's product : SHOE
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Having the greatest breadth : WIDEST
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Caribbean vacation place : BAHAMAS
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Watercress, in Yorkshire : EKER
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Puritanical person, to an Aussie : WOWSER
44
Insignificant fellows : TWERPS
45
Letter embellishment : SERIF
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Lake source of the Blue Nile : TSANA
48
Tableland : MESA
49
Not this : THAT
50
Blood: Comb. form : HEMO
51
Haunted-house sound : MOAN
52
Sicilian volcano : ETNA
56
Brugg's river : AAR

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 2 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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