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Charles M. Deber
Charles M. Deber

FRACTURED PHRASES

New York Times, Sunday, October 30, 1988

118-Across : Chest: Comb. form

Author:
Charles M. Deber
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 76, Avg Word Len: 5.21, Missing: { J Q X Z }
Open Squares: 119, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11, Grid flow: 52.4
Charles M. Deber has 18 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 20 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,236
Across
1
Scoundrel : CAD
4
Angels' headgear : HALOS
9
___ as the eye can see : ASFAR
14
Fixed or frozen follower : ASSET
19
Fabulist George : ADE
20
Two-line verse : EPODE
21
Beach : SHORE
22
Weather, to a poet : CLIME
23
Israeli airport : LOD
24
Tailor trousers : ALTER
25
Pauline's problem : PERIL
26
Exhausts : TIRES
27
Silkworm : ERI
28
Routines : RUTS
29
Frauds : SCAMS
30
Inclination : ASCENT
31
Get lost, after four : BECO MESEPARATED
35
They may justify means : ENDS
36
Danish county : AMT
37
Appraise : RATE
38
Sputtered, as an engine : STALLED
40
In particular : NOTABLY
43
L.B.J. beagle : HER
45
Diamond and Lagerlöf : SELMAS
48
W. S. Porter : OHENRY
49
Mata ___ : HARI
50
Devour, after five : TEARI NTO
53
Penn and Tell, for short : WMS
54
Famed marbles : ELGIN
56
Map : PLAN
58
Selves : EGOS
59
Max and Buddy : BAERS
60
Parboils : SCALDS
62
Newman and Revere : PAULS
63
Bullfrog's sound : CROAK
66
Right to the jaw, after four : UPPE RCUT
68
"Dames ___," 1968 musical : ATSEA
69
Double features : CHINS
70
"Mikrokosmos" composer : BARTOK
71
Stadium sounds : ROARS
73
That, in Toulouse : CELA
74
Closefisted : NEAR
75
Slightest : LEAST
76
French vineyard : CRU
79
Broiled entree, after three : LAM BCHOP
83
Land contract : DEED
85
Frightens : SCARES
87
Eroded, as a river : SENILE
88
America's Uncle : SAM
89
Warehouse function : STORAGE
90
"Alice Doesn't Live Here ___" : ANYMORE
94
West African country : TOGO
96
"Tin ___," 1987 film : MEN
97
Osiris's wife : ISIS
100
Specialization, after eleven : DIVISIONOFL ABOR
105
Christie's Miss ___ : MARPLE
107
Novelist Sinclair : UPTON
108
On one's toes : ATIP
109
Before, to the Bard : ERE
110
An Astaire : ADELE
111
Shoe plate : CLEAT
112
Actress Verdugo : ELENA
113
Kurosawa movie: 1985 : RAN
114
Frenzied : MANIC
115
Lasagna or linguine : PASTA
116
Flax fabric : LINEN
117
1 or 66, e.g. : RTE
118
Chest: Comb. form : STETH
119
Skills, in Sevilla : ARTES
120
Untidy : MESSY
121
Word of assent : YES
Down
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Son of Jephunneh : CALEB
2
Cherish : ADORE
3
Commemorates : DEDICATES
4
Disappointments, after four : HEAR TBREAKS
5
" ... and pulled out ___" : APLUM
6
Numbers game : LOTTERY
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Black Sea port : ODESSA
8
Sun. talk : SER
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Humane org. : ASPCA
10
Shaves a sheep : SHEARS
11
Style : FORMAT
12
Beard of grain : ARISTA
13
R.C., e.g. : REL
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Play parts : ACTS
15
Deli specialties, after seven : SLICEDM EATS
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Sea songstress : SIREN
17
Correct a text : EMEND
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Exams : TESTS
29
Hitler's architect : SPEER
30
Freud contemporary : ADLER
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Arabian sultanate : OMAN
33
Frome or Allen : ETHAN
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Lioness or Lanchester : ELSA
39
Yalie : ELI
40
At this point in time : NOW
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German physicist : OHM
42
Baseball's Sparky : LYLE
44
Parachute strings, after four : RIPC ORDS
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Breed of cattle : ANGUS
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Fur piece : STOLE
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Certain U.S. resident : HISPANO
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Baby powder : TALC
51
Lasted : ENDURED
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Mount in Tasmania : OSSA
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Dig : GRUB
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Wagtail's cousin : LARK
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Dessert, after four : BANA NASPLIT
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Caterpillar's hair : SETA
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Greek portico : STOA
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Leave, after seven : PARTCOM PANY
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Half of DCC : CCCL
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American ostriches : RHEAS
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Tin Man's plea in Oz film : OILME
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Type of school : PREP
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Prof. rank : ASST
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Dud : LEMON
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Thanksgiving fruit : CRANBERRY
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___ U.S. Pat. Off. : REG
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Employ : USE
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Coal container : BIN
81
Bonnie's beau : CLYDE
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Half: Comb. form : HEMI
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City in Ohio : EATON
86
Length times width, e.g. : AREA
89
Melts : SOFTENS
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Like a small egg : OVULAR
92
Most mature : RIPEST
93
The press is the fourth one : ESTATE
95
Net minder : GOALIE
97
Mohammed descendants : IMAMS
98
Former Egyptian president : SADAT
99
Dunne or Castle : IRENE
101
Tiny amounts : IOTAS
102
Queues : LINES
103
Speechify : ORATE
104
Descartes and Lévesque : RENES
106
Walesa : LECH
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Nos. man : CPA
112
Shade tree : ELM

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11 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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