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Wilson McBeath
Wilson McBeath

New York Times, Wednesday, November 30, 1988

17-Across : Orchard man's street in Atlanta?

Author:
Wilson McBeath
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { F J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 21.4
Wilson McBeath has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,267
Across
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Busy people on Apr. 14 : CPAS
5
Gourd : PEPO
9
City near Gainesville : OCALA
14
Actor Ray : ALDO
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Russian city : OREL
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Emulated Al Unser : RACED
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Orchard man's street in Atlanta? : PEACHTREE
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Improve a book : EMEND
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Gold coins : EAGLES
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Tease : RIB
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Pitching stats : ERAS
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Beef animal : STEER
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Draw back : RECOIL
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Lyric poems : ODES
29
Suave : URBANE
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Prevaricator : LIAR
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Noun suffixes : IAS
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"Scarce could ___ hold a quill": Blunden : READOR
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Gaunt : ANGULAR
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Inflammation : ABSCESS
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Cure again : REHEAL
43
Greg Norman, for one : PRO
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Patella site : KNEE
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Loving term : DEARIE
46
Talk wildly : RANT
48
Corsage flower : ORCHID
50
Loosen : UNTIE
55
Philippine's Aquino, familiarly : CORY
58
Beret's cousin : TAM
59
Make sacred : ANOINT
60
Like bees : APIAN
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Chicago square for fodder merchants? : HAYMARKET
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Roman tunic : STOLA
65
Monad : ATOM
66
Withered : SERE
67
Ruhr city : ESSEN
68
"O tu che in ___ ... ": Verdi aria : SENO
69
Superlative endings : ESTS
Down
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Ann and May : CAPES
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Fold : PLEAT
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Saw : ADAGE
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Plinth : SOCLE
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Chefs' containers : POTS
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Transgress : ERR
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Earl's spouse, e.g. : PEERESS
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Relating to oil : OLEIC
9
Mesabi product : ORE
10
Nomad's street in Phoenix? : CAMELBACK
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Maple genus : ACER
12
Chanteuse Horne : LENA
13
Supplements : ADDS
18
Audie Murphy was one : HERO
22
Beverage street in New Orleans? : BOURBON
25
Stern : REAR
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Angers : IRES
28
Patois : DIALECT
30
Yemeni port : ADEN
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Margin of victory, sometimes : NOSE
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Gaelic : ERSE
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Hog fat : LARD
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Arrow poison : INEE
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Moslem title : AGHA
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Paris street for rois? : RUEROYALE
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Den : LAIR
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Rumanian city : ARAD
43
Archbishop : PRIMATE
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Salad fish : TUNA
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Sunken fences : HAHAS
51
Scandinavian : NORSE
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Small children: Var. : TIKES
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Adjective for neon : INERT
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Feminine suffixes : ETTES
55
Instance : CASE
56
Chooses : OPTS
57
Spanish rivers : RIOS
59
Ashcans and pineapples : AMMO
61
Fabray, to friends : NAN
63
Hither and ___ : YON

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

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