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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Thursday, June 21, 1990

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 60, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 37.9
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,835
Across
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Pedestal section : DADO
5
Early inhabitant of Britain : PICT
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Glutton : PIG
12
Heeling, as a ship : ALIST
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Ending with citron : ELLA
15
Kind of contract : ORAL
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Simpleton : NINCOMPOOP
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"___ to bed," said the grease monkey : OILY
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Mousers in Madrid : GATOS
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Up-to-date; precisely : RIGHTON
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Native Israelis : SABRAS
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With "The," a Stravinsky ballet : FIREBIRD
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Business org. : AMA
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Places for prides : LAIRS
29
Demolishes a Soho flat : RASES
30
Nonsense : ROT
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Battling ___, light heavyweight champ: 1922-23 : SIKI
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Ordinal suffix : ETH
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Frisbee, for one : DISC
35
Small change : CENTS
37
Deluxe fliers : SSTS
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It precedes been : HAS
43
Gunsels' arms : GATS
45
Trygve of U.N. fame : LIE
46
Nobelist in Literature: 1957 : CAMUS
49
Zeus turned her into a nightingale : AEDON
50
Gen. Eaker : IRA
51
"I cannot bear ___ tears": Virgil : AMOTHERS
53
Light sleeper : NAPPER
55
"Poosh 'Em Up" Tony ___ of baseball : LAZZERI
56
Locations : SITES
57
Nipa : ATAP
58
Nonstop doer : WORKAHOLIC
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Marsh bird : SORA
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Spanish land area : ISLA
64
Blow Z's : SNORE
65
Religious tchr.'s degree : LTH
66
Ornithologist's concern : NEST
67
German admiral : SPEE
Down
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Beard or Rather : DAN
2
Actress MacGraw : ALI
3
Edith Bunker types, to Archie : DINGBATS
4
Klugman in "The Odd Couple" : OSCAR
5
___ up (inspirits) : PEPS
6
U.N. workers' group : ILO
7
Leachman of films : CLORIS
8
Hoglike animal : TAPIR
9
High muck-a-mucks : POOHBAHS
10
Eye inflammation : IRITIS
11
In abundance : GALORE
13
Sums : TOTALS
16
Authors of "Middletown ... " : LYNDS
18
Inlaid-stone decorations : MOSAICS
22
Actor Frobe : GERT
23
Chalcedony : SARD
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Mine, in Metz : AMOI
25
Decorative borders : FRINGES
28
"I like ___" : IKE
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Latvian neighbor : ESTONIA
34
Impudence; gall : CHUTZPAH
36
Small boy : TAD
38
Pointless writing : SLIPSLOP
39
___ out (exhaust) : TIRE
40
Scorch : SEAR
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Wimbledon champ: 1975 : ASHE
44
Scythe handles : SNATHS
46
Picnic hams : CALAS
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Kin of TNT : AMATOL
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"The Magic Flute" composer : MOZART
49
Songlike : ARIOSE
52
A Stu in the movies : ERWIN
54
Laborers : PEONS
56
Game played with 32 cards : SKAT
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Literary monogram : RLS
60
Wrath : IRE
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One of two in soccer : CEE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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