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Barbara J. Weakley
Barbara J. Weakley

New York Times, Saturday, July 25, 1987

28-Down : Put to work

Author:
Barbara J. Weakley
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J V X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 19.4
Barbara J. Weakley has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,773
Across
1
Park of hockey fame : BRAD
5
Tropical parrot : MACAW
10
Winter Palace resident : TSAR
14
Adjuvant : AIDE
15
Asian mountain range : ALTAI
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VIII : OCTO
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Incite : GOAD
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Effort or impulse : NISUS
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Like a phoenix : RARA
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Orchestra section : STRINGS
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Unlike most of Antarctica : PEOPLED
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Mountain pass : COL
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Quarters : ABODES
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One sashaying in a hoedown : SQUAREDANCER
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Wild; barren : WASTE
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He wrote "The Proper Bostonians" : AMORY
34
Andress film: 1964 : SHE
37
French notion : IDEE
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Pickle maker's need : BRINE
39
Actor Tamiroff : AKIM
40
First word of "Home, Sweet Home" : MID
41
Dress design : ALINE
42
Lace the punch : SPIKE
43
Home run : ROUNDTRIPPER
45
Drawing rooms : SALONS
48
John Duncan was one : UTE
49
Gerald Ford, once : ATHLETE
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Sets upon : ASSAILS
55
Semitic god : BAAL
56
Period : EPOCH
58
Picot : LOOP
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Otherwise : ELSE
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Book by D. S. Freeman : RELEE
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Cartoonist Hulme : ETTA
62
Erect : REAR
63
"Adam's Curse" poet : YEATS
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Dare, in Dogpatch : DAST
Down
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Black sheep's burden : BAGS
2
Kind of act : RIOT
3
Hebrew month : ADAR
4
Consecrate : DEDICATE
5
Pressing machine : MANGLE
6
Baba and MacGraw : ALIS
7
Pennies: Abbr. : CTS
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College teachers' org. : AAUP
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Smart aleck : WISEACRE
10
Apathy : TORPOR
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Heat milk, in a way : SCALD
12
" ... as lovely as ___" : ATREE
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Tobacco and Yellow Brick : ROADS
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The ___, Thames estuary : NORE
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Follow orders : OBEY
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Emulate Leander : SWIM
27
Moslem judge : QADI
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Put to work : USED
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Singer Bobby ___: 1936-73 : DARIN
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"Hev it just as you've ___ to ... " : Kipling : AMIND
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Piece for nine : NONET
34
Omit : SKIP
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Boost in price : HIKE
36
Legendary Irish bride : EMER
38
Like some winter weather : BLUSTERY
39
Took to a higher court : APPEALED
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Top-notch : AONE
42
Poses : SITS
43
He may be high : ROLLER
44
Marsh plants : RUSHES
45
Yataghan : SABER
46
Hanger in "Hamlet" : ATALE
47
Start of a canine name : LHASA
50
Inventor of a sign language : EPEE
51
Vinegar: Comb. form : ACET
52
Jot : IOTA
53
Realtors' assets : LOTS
54
Young oyster : SPAT
57
Biographer Winslow : OLA

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