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Reginald L. Johnson
Reginald L. Johnson

New York Times, Monday, September 4, 1989

29-Down : Triumphs

Author:
Reginald L. Johnson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { F J Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 248 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 3
Reginald L. Johnson has 36 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,545
Across
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Partner of comes : GOES
5
"The Red" : ERIC
9
"Let ___ eat cake" : THEM
13
Give forth : ISSUE
15
Words to Nanette : NONO
16
Kind of chest : HOPE
17
Distort a report : SLANT
18
Smirch : SOIL
19
One of five bodies of water : ERIE
20
Hard problem : TOUGHNUTTOCRACK
23
Rams' mates : EWES
24
Fish delicacy : ROE
25
State : ASSERT
29
"Eadie ___ a Lady" : WAS
30
Cardplayers' kitty : POT
33
Lunkheads : SAPS
34
A deadly sin : PRIDE
36
Jackie's second : ARI
37
Phrase for a narrow miss : CLOSEBUTNOCIGAR
41
Air, in compounds : AER
42
Partner of penates : LARES
43
Historical fact : DATE
44
Time in L.A. : PST
45
Dutch city : EDE
46
Partner of sticks : STONES
48
Friend, in France : AMI
49
Woodwind : OBOE
51
Hardly ever : ONCEINABLUEMOON
59
Ocho ___, Jamaican port : RIOS
60
Song for Sutherland : ARIA
61
W.W. I battle scene : MARNE
62
Within: Comb. form : ENDO
63
Roscoes : GATS
64
Photocopies : STATS
65
Come out slowly : SEEP
66
In addition : ELSE
67
Opening for coins : SLOT
Down
1
Central idea : GIST
2
Formerly Christiania : OSLO
3
He sold his birthright : ESAU
4
" ... sweetest songs yet remain to be ___": Whitman : SUNG
5
Follow quickly : ENSUE
6
Turnips, e.g. : ROOTS
7
Monogram pt. : INIT
8
Garden of the Gods site : COLORADO
9
Partner of here : THERE
10
Sixty minutes, in Spain : HORA
11
Of grand proportions : EPIC
12
Unassuming : MEEK
14
The clear sky : ETHER
21
A part of Can. : NWT
22
Word used in trig. : COSEC
25
Org. for Cahn, Kahn, et al. : ASCAP
26
Entertainer Soupy : SALES
27
Big spender : SPORT
28
Sigmoid letter : ESS
29
Triumphs : WINS
30
Heathen : PAGAN
31
Use a soapbox : ORATE
32
Radials : TIRES
34
Unadulterated : PURE
35
Hwy. : RTE
38
Varnish ingredient : ELEMI
39
Banter : BADINAGE
40
Half a Broadway title : IDO
46
Old French coin : SOU
47
Is in abundance : TEEMS
48
Fabulist : AESOP
49
R.I.P. notices : OBITS
50
Pleasure-weary : BLASE
51
Mine products : ORES
52
Mets or Cubs : NINE
53
Morse, for one : CODE
54
Soviet sea : ARAL
55
Gym gear : MATS
56
Type of test : ORAL
57
Aware of : ONTO
58
Snug place : NEST

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