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Ruth Ball
Ruth Ball

Digging Into Things

New York Times, Sunday, July 27, 1969

88-Down : Of a Frankish people

Author:
Ruth Ball
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 136, Blocks: 73, Avg Word Len: 5.41, Missing: { J Q W }, Scrabble score: 524 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 124, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 32, Grid flow: 55.5
Ruth Ball has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1969, The New York TimesNo. 7,288
Across
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Glacial epoch : ICEAGE
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Quality : TRAIT
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Setting for "Kate" : PADUA
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Well-excavated city of Egypt : THEBES
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___ mark : TOESTHE
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___ phrase : TURNSA
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Paris subways : METROS
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Experts in looking back : ARCHAEOLOGISTS
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Belonging to: Suffix : ORIAL
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Formerly, old style : ERST
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Comes in last : LOSES
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Then, in France : LORS
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Furnace man: Abbr. : STO
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Roistering : ONATOOT
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Theater area : PIT
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Rain in Paris : PLUIE
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"___ bug in ... " : SNUGASA
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Up : RISEN
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Amundsen and others : ROALDS
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Shrewish ones : VIXENS
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Shoe width: Abbr. : NAR
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Cashier : OUST
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Pieces of eight : PESOS
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Materials for a dig : PICKANDSHOVEL
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French revolutionary family : MARATS
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Caravansary : SERAI
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Sullivan and others : EDS
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___ machine : OILA
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Gums: Prefix : ULO
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Alpine tunnel : SIMPLON
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Endure: Scot. : DREE
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Strategem : TRAP
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Marionette maker : SARG
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Man's name : OREN
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Denials : NOES
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Dwellings of a kind : HUTS
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Building beam : IBAR
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Potpourri : OLIO
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Really? : CANITBE
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Grasp : SEE
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Part of N.B. : NOTA
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Settled down : LIT
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Stared : GAZED
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Overage : EXCESS
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Moraine : GRAVELDEPOSIT
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Mountain in Greece : ATHOS
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La Gallienne and others : EVAS
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Boater : HAT
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Clog in a way : SILTUP
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Lorna and family : DOONES
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Watched the late show : SATUP
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"Beneath the ___ frown he stands ... " : FOEMANS
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Fragrant root : ORRIS
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___ de deux : PAS
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A geological age, for short : PENNERA
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Famous Giant : OTT
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500 sheets : REAM
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Confused skirmish : MELEE
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Golf positions : LIES
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Earth : TERRA
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Locale for Schliemann : EXCAVATIONSITE
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Ancient Cretan : MINOAN
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Antelope of India : NILGAI
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Dessert : CUSTARD
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Settle : LOCATE
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Blinds, as a hawk : SEELS
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Rigid : TENSE
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Imminent : ANYDAY
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Betels : ITMOS
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Dark rocks : CHERTS
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King in "Iliad" : EETION
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___-cadabra : ABRA
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Certain scientists : GEOLOGISTS
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Feminine suffix : ESS
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Sculptured form : TORSO
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Clergyman : RECTOR
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Residue : ASH
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Sloping type: Abbr. : ITAL
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Locale of a Marx movie : THEOPERA
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Directions for readers: Abbr. : PTOS
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Month: Abbr. : AUG
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Excavate in a special way : DRILLATOOTH
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Destroy the spirit : UNSOUL
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Former Belgian queen : ASTRID
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Clan identity : TARTAN
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Rose-red dye : EOSIN
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Blockheads : ASSES
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Tennis term : LET
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Mitigates : EASES
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Aegean sight: Abbr. : NAXOSI
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Trash item : TINCAN
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Elegant: Slang : POSH
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Eye part : UVEA
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H. H. Munro : SAKI
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Charlotte ___ : RUSSE
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Word form for cave : SPELEO
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Most peculiar : ODDEST
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Proportionately : PRORATA
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Ore deposit : IRON
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Sea nymph : NEREID
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Germs : VIRUSES
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Gladdens : ELATES
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Slips : LAPSES
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Pondering : MUSING
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___ of love : ALABOR
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Elf : SPRITE
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Marine fishes : MOLIDS
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Russ. river : DONETS
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Hitler : NAZI
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Spanish jars : OLLAS
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Compute : CASTUP
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Improved : BETTER
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Archaeologist's work : EXHUMATION
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Fall guy : GOAT
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Rio's beach : COPA
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Times of day : EVES
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End slowly : PHASEOUT
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Lily plants : ALOES
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___ be (in case) : IFNEED
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Mark Van ___ : DOREN
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Appetite, in psychology : OREXIS
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Divine revelation : ORACLE
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Of a Frankish people : SALIC
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Son of Poseidon : PELIAS
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Impassable : NOROAD
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Layers : STRATA
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Cosset : PET
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Saltpeter : NITRE
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Former Chief Justice : TANEY
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But, in Paris : MAIS
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Word in Mass. motto : ENSE
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Ref. work : ENCY
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Lace : VAL
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Post: Abbr. : STN
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English teachers' group: Abbr. : MLA

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