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Margaret W. Huskey
Margaret W. Huskey

New York Times, Thursday, July 7, 1988

Author:
Margaret W. Huskey
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { B F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 35.5 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Margaret W. Huskey has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,121
Across
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Boston ___ Orchestra : POPS
5
Okla. Indian : OSAGE
10
Cloudlike aggregation : MIST
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Tree ___ (quiver tree) : ALOE
15
Early Soviet leader : LENIN
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Rialto org. : ANTA
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Author Uris : LEON
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Sea duck : EIDER
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___- do-well : NEER
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Hardwood tree : MAHOGANY
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Trees that grow in wetlands : ALDERS
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Quebec's Lévesque : RENE
25
Culture medium : AGAR
26
Slow down : RETARD
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Make-believe : PRETENSE
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Seth's mother : EVE
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Singer Haggard : MERLE
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African antelope : ELAND
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The 4077th, for short : MASH
39
Ranch in "Giant" : REATA
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Kind of rug : SHAG
42
Runs in neutral : IDLES
44
Concerning : ANENT
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Haw. instrument : UKE
47
Cooperative effort : TEAMWORK
49
Oxford's river : THAMES
51
Porsena of Clusium : LARS
52
Gunlock catch : SEAR
53
Type of nut tree : ALMOND
56
Tree that yields a yellow dye : AMARILLO
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This (girl), to Galba : HAEC
61
"Romola" author : ELIOT
63
Bird-feeder treat : SUET
64
Russian city : OMSK
65
Annual income, in Arles : RENTE
66
Budget, in Berlin : ETAT
67
Some votes : YEAS
68
Kraut preceder : SAUER
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Pianist or fiddler : NERO
Down
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Tropical tree : PALM
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Olive genus : OLEA
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"Winnie-the-___" : POOH
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A spouse in Sevilla : SENORA
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Poisonous shrub : OLEANDER
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Net on a schooner : SEINE
7
Williams or Griffith : ANDY
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Give, in Glasgow : GIE
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Infuriate : ENRAGE
10
Lathe spindles : MANDRELS
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Arrow poison : INEE
12
Suffix with young or old : STER
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Sticky substances : TARS
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Bacterium : GERM
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Recent : LATE
25
Valor : ARETE
26
Pardon : REMIT
27
Dodge : EVADE
28
Induction-motor inventor : TESLA
29
Platform part : PLANK
30
Old Testament book : NAHUM
31
Racer, e.g. : SNAKE
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Flanges : EDGES
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Raises : REARS
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Trees used in tanning : HEMLOCKS
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Sticky-tongued mammal : ANTEATER
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Graceful bird : SWAN
45
"___ she blows!" : THAR
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Mandates : ORDERS
50
Gone up : ARISEN
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Struck : SMOTE
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Nautical cry : AHOY
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Like some excuses : LAME
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Big butte : MESA
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Indigenous Japanese : AINU
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Stringed instrument : LUTE
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Norman of TV : LEAR
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Lyrist Harbach : OTTO
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Grassland : LEA

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

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