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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Wednesday, November 8, 1989

39-Down : Border; fringe

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,610
Across
1
Artifice : DODGE
6
Belfry occupants : BATS
10
Winter mos. : FEBS
14
"___ to the wise ... " : AWORD
15
Got off : ALIT
16
Hawaiian feast : LUAU
17
Emulated Dorcas : SEWED
18
Whiskers named for Gen. Burnside : SIDEBURNS
20
Tenpenny, etc. : NAILS
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Moray, e.g. : EEL
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Quarters for Fatima : ODA
24
Backslides : LAPSES
26
Type of maid : SLEEPIN
28
Man, for one : ISLE
29
Chinese pagoda : TAA
32
Creeks : INLETS
33
African lake or republic : CHAD
34
Gluttonous : GREEDY
36
___ lime pie : KEY
37
Turnkeys in Britain : GAOLERS
39
Killer whale : ORC
42
See 22 Across : CONGER
43
Burr-Hamilton affair : DUEL
44
Outcome : UPSHOT
47
Where B'klyn is : NYC
49
Sicilian spouter : ETNA
50
Secretes again : REHIDES
52
Kidnapper's objective : RANSOM
54
Precipitation in Glasgow : SNA
55
Break a fast : EAT
56
Author of "My Name is Asher Lev" : POTOK
57
Attempt : UNDERTAKE
60
Practical : UTILE
63
Sediment : LEES
64
Stretches, with "out" : EKES
65
Wolfe and a Roman emperor : NEROS
66
Increases : ADDS
67
Budget item : RENT
68
Bar legally : ESTOP
Down
1
German article : DAS
2
Part of i.o.u. : OWE
3
De-emphasize : DOWNPLAY
4
___ the palm (bribed) : GREASED
5
Cantor or Arcaro : EDDIE
6
Large-mouth or small-mouth : BASS
7
The Greatest : ALI
8
Neap and ebb : TIDES
9
Harder : STEELIER
10
Type of shot : FLU
11
One side of the Urals : EUROPE
12
One-armed ___ : BANDIT
13
Saint James and Hayward : SUSANS
19
Tobacco mixtures : BLENDS
21
Omaha Beach vessel, for short : LST
24
Overcome : LICK
25
Wimbledon champ: 1975 : ASHE
27
Culbertson of bridge : ELY
30
Excited : AGOG
31
Author of "The Green Hat" : ARLEN
35
Uncanny : EERY
37
Do-___ (humanitarian) : GOODER
38
Echidna : ANTEATER
39
Border; fringe : OUTSKIRT
40
Silver State city : RENO
41
Word with bake : CLAM
42
" ... sweetheart of Sigma ___" : CHI
43
Stands for : DENOTES
44
Actress Andress : URSULA
45
Wrote : PENNED
46
Worked on a pastel : SHADED
48
___-Magnon : CRO
51
Spile : STAKE
53
" ... I am disposed to harmony ... incapable of ___": Lamb : ATUNE
56
Nuisance : PEST
58
Curve : ESS
59
Scope of understanding : KEN
61
Old card game : LOO
62
Unusual perception, for short : ESP

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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