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NY Times, Thu, Dec 24, 1987

Author: Dale O. Burgener
Editor: Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { F H J X }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0

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© 1987, The New York Times
Across Down
1. Chilling storyteller : POE
4. Dryden's "___ savage" : NOBLE
9. Bar chaser : NONE
13. Qualified : ABLE
15. City that grew tired : AKRON
16. Pindar poems : ODES
17. Flowery greetings : LEIS
18. Painter Dufy : RAOUL
19. What nuns take : VOWS
20. Competitors for Edgars : MYSTERYWRITERS
23. "___! poor Yorick": Shak. : ALAS
24. Sun god : SOL
25. Seven singers : SEPTET
28. When-and-where info : DATELINE
33. Cloverlike plant with yellow flowers : TREEMEDIC
35. Man of La Mancha : SENOR
36. Future fish : ROE
37. King's march site: 1965 : SELMA
39. Keresan Indian : SIA
40. Off-the-cuff words : ADLIB
43. State of caution : ALERTNESS
46. Cowboy stories : WESTERNS
48. Vandyke's cousin : GOATEE
49. Australian pest : EMU
50. Eavesdroppers' plants : BUGS
51. Love-story coterie : ROMANCEREADERS
58. Branches : RAMI
59. Gershwin's "Sometime Thing" : WOMAN
60. Zoological suffix : ACEA
61. Grand Canyon St. : ARIZ
62. Pedro's friend : AMIGO
63. Marsh : QUAG
64. Fountain of music : PETE
65. Early riser? : YEAST
66. Hairy primate : APE
 1. It may make dates : PALM
2. Petruchio's imperative? : OBEY
3. Flash Gordon and Frank Merriwell, e.g. : ELIS
4. Tells stories : NARRATES
5. Gives the go-ahead : OKAYS
6. Sweat producer : BROW
7. Frown: Var. : LOUR
8. Uncle Sam's plea : ENLIST
9. Short tales : NOVELLE
10. Skunk's protection : ODOR
11. Report from Rather : NEWS
12. Snaky shape : ESS
14. Possessions : ESTATE
21. Pre-H.S. grades : ELEM
22. Pedal extremities : TOES
25. Kind of vote : STRAW
26. Disappear gradually : ERODE
27. Strips : PEELS
28. Hamburger accompaniments : DILLS
29. It's the top : ACME
30. Gore : INSET
31. Cacophony : NOISE
32. Delete : ERASE
34. Faculty bigwig : DEAN
38. "Yet I ___/Against Heav'n's hand . . . ": Milton : ARGUENOT
41. List individually : ITEMIZE
42. Speaker's platform : BEMA
44. Academic gown : TOGA
45. Computerized stock figs. : NASDAQ
47. Landing strip : RUNWAY
50. Blows one's own horn : BRAGS
51. Uncommon : RARE
52. Leave out : OMIT
53. Request to "ye faithful" : COME
54. Suffix re blood condition : EMIA
55. Neighbor of Col. : ECUA
56. Harvest : REAP
57. Wise man : SAGE
58. Shoot the breeze : RAP

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