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Martin Fass
Martin Fass

New York Times, Tuesday, January 11, 1983

Author:
Martin Fass
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Grid flow: 10.5
Martin Fass has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,117
Across
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Pleat : CRIMP
6
Beast of burden : ASS
9
Dispatch : SHIP
13
Rajah's wife : RANEE
14
Cause of dampness : MOISTURE
16
Event in 1980 : CENSUS
17
Rural picture : PASTORAL
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Confronts : ACCOSTS
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One conditionally freed : PAROLEE
21
Entire : WHOLE
22
Durocher's nickname : THELIP
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Dried out : SERE
25
Wire nail : BRAD
26
"Absinthe" painter : DEGAS
30
Polo team : FOUR
31
Lead astray : SEDUCE
32
Underground colonist : ANT
35
Ridicule : LAMPOON
37
Far East holiday : TET
38
McCormick machine : REAPER
40
Certain biog. sketch : OBIT
41
Primitive familial symbol : TOTEM
42
Arab-Berber descendant : MOOR
43
Intensively attentive : RAPT
47
An early creed : NICENE
49
Instrument for Yo-Yo Ma : CELLO
50
First Lady for 13 years : ELEANOR
53
Speak spasmodically : SPUTTER
55
A pledging document : MORTGAGE
57
This isn't Occidental : ORIENT
58
Ate : INGESTED
59
Between Chris and Lloyd : EVERT
60
A Hardy lass : TESS
61
Wrath : IRE
62
Unclean : MESSY
Down
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Yuletide display : CRECHE
2
Ill will : RANCOR
3
Shoe component : INSOLE
4
French river : MEUSE
5
DDT target : PEST
6
Elec. term : AMP
7
Coated for washing : SOAPED
8
Rope fiber : SISAL
9
What Goldsmith's lady did : STOOPED
10
Pitch : HURL
11
"Dies ___" (Latin hymn) : IRAE
12
Soccer's #1, once : PELE
15
Noisy; harsh : STRIDENT
16
Corvine sounds : CAWS
19
Play, in a way : STRUM
23
Weapon on the Pequod : HARPOON
25
Black Forest beast : BOAR
27
Fishing-tackle material : GUT
28
Top of a suit : ACE
29
Grouping at Wimbledon : SET
30
Certain Belgians : FLEMINGS
31
Evening in Paris : SOIR
32
Skill : ART
33
Avant-gardist : NEO
34
Use a shuttle : TAT
36
Chinese horns : OBOES
39
Roman household gods : PENATES
42
Commercial combo : MERGER
43
Binds again : RETIES
44
Changes : ALTERS
45
More than enough : PLENTY
46
A civil wrongdoing : TORT
48
Raccoonlike mammal : COATI
49
Flexure : CURVE
50
Give out : EMIT
51
Like an anchorite : LONE
52
Units of work : ERGS
54
Houseman product : POEM
56
Noted painter of birds : EDE

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