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Joel D. Lafargue
Joel D. Lafargue

New York Times, Friday, March 4, 1988

Author:
Joel D. Lafargue
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J K P Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 246 (avg 1.32)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 39.2
Joel D. Lafargue has 51 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 13,996
Across
1
Singer Vikki : CARR
5
" ... bloom in the spring, ___" : TRALA
10
Theft at Fenway Park : BASE
14
Figure in Genesis : ESAU
15
Stand in a studio : EASEL
16
Moran of "Happy Days" : ERIN
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Met moundsman : RONDARLING
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___ up (detained) : HELD
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Slander : TRADUCE
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High principles : IDEALS
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Small fish : IDE
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Top off a room : CEIL
25
Dishonest transaction : SWEETHEARTDEAL
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Where to spend a kip : LAOS
33
Most resentful : SOREST
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Mon. successor : TUE
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Way to a man's heart? : AORTA
37
Bell and Kettle : MAS
38
Mount the soapbox : ORATE
40
Mariner's dir. : NNE
41
Greeks' "unlucky" letters : THETAS
44
He lived 905 years : ENOS
45
Business-letter start : DEARSIRORMADAM
48
Brain-wave recs. : EEGS
49
Double this for a P.I. port : ILO
50
Mia Farrow role : HANNAH
53
Referred (to) : ALLUDED
57
Like 44 Across : AGED
58
Cour-Popp-Blackburn collaboration : LOVEISBLUE
61
Tenor Maison : RENE
62
High hunter : ORION
63
Arturo's change : LIRA
64
Père David's ___ : DEER
65
Twist : WRING
66
Neck and neck : EVEN
Down
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Birth doc. : CERT
2
Hebrew lyre : ASOR
3
Punjabi prince : RANA
4
Reddish to the max : RUDDIEST
5
Poets' three-line groups : TERCETS
6
Chest sound : RALE
7
"___ was saying" : ASI
8
Dykstra of the Mets : LEN
9
Boyer-Lamarr film : ALGIERS
10
Took in : BEHELD
11
Vicinity : AREA
12
Poet who wrote "Opportunity" : SILL
13
Non-meeters, often : ENDS
18
French department : AUDE
22
Same here : DITTO
24
Coca's partner : CAESAR
25
Vosges river : SAONE
26
"When You ___ Tulip ... " : WOREA
27
Round trips for 8 Down : HOMERS
28
Muse for Sappho : ERATO
29
He tried to reach heaven on an eagle : ETANA
30
Self-operating: Abbr. : AUTOM
31
Sordor : LEES
32
Alight : LAND
36
Befuddled : ATSEA
39
Bridge call : REDOUBLE
42
Poker variation : HIGHLOW
43
Looking happy : SMILING
46
Cause to become : RENDER
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"___ fair in love ... " : ALLS
50
No picnic : HARD
51
He wrote "The Morning Watch" : AGEE
52
Hilo goose : NENE
53
Eras on end : AEON
54
Sixth-century date : DLIV
55
Gallic river : EURE
56
Honcho at Harvard : DEAN
59
Bruin Hall of Famer : ORR
60
Figure on some clocks : VII

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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