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Jeanne Wilson
Jeanne Wilson

New York Times, Tuesday, January 12, 1988

4-Down : On ___ (precisely)

Author:
Jeanne Wilson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 16.9
Jeanne Wilson has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 13,944
Across
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Weskit : VEST
5
Ambassador's asset : TACT
9
Cheap tire : RECAP
14
Straight: Comb. form : ORTH
15
Part of "Oyez!" : HEAR
16
Part of a Stein line : AROSE
17
Dies ___ : IRAE
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Writer Bombeck : ERMA
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Special talent : FORTE
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Abundance : CORNUCOPIA
23
Cookie : SNAP
24
The bull, in Barcelona : ELTORO
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Massenet opera : THAIS
27
Singer Yma ___ : SUMAC
30
Incite : AROUSE
33
Far East staple : RICE
36
Nigerian natives : IBOS
38
Point of view : ANGLE
39
Foofaraw : ADO
40
What tight shoes cause : CORNS
42
"All's well," in space : AOK
43
Certain Slavs : SERBS
46
Module : UNIT
47
Work measures : ERGS
48
Some British kings : HENRYS
50
Ieper, to the French : YPRES
52
Chair or car : SEDAN
54
Intemperance : EXCESS
58
Sunk fence : HAHA
60
Pudding ingredient : CORNSTARCH
63
Chew the scenery : EMOTE
65
Competes : VIES
66
Belém's river : PARA
67
Arabian coffee : MOCHA
68
To be, to Bernadette : ETRE
69
Kin of etc. : ETAL
70
Printer's roller : INKER
71
"Shane" star : LADD
72
Geodesic ___ : DOME
Down
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The ___ (Sinatra) : VOICE
2
Flynn of filmdom : ERROL
3
"Gentlemen, ___ your engines" : START
4
On ___ (precisely) : THENOSE
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"The perception of ___ is a tie of sympathy ... ": Emerson : THECOMIC
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Plane preceder : AERO
7
David is one : CAMP
8
Characteristic : TRAIT
9
British mil. group : RAF
10
Soil problem : EROSION
11
A dextrose : CORNSUGAR
12
The Charles's pet : ASTA
13
Kind of hole : PEEP
21
S.A. country : URU
22
Eureka! : AHA
26
Altar in the sky : ARA
28
___ Ben Adhem : ABOU
29
Like this puzzle? : CORNY
31
Walk through mud : SLOG
32
Sounds a mouse evokes : EEKS
33
Impetuous : RASH
34
___ fixe : IDEE
35
Stack of stalks : CORNSHOCK
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Sassy lass : SNIP
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Accented : STRESSED
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Inhale : BREATHE
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A Chaplin : SYD
47
Houdini did it : ESCAPED
49
Bursa : SAC
51
Annex or ell: Abbr. : EXT
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New : NOVEL
55
Poetry Muse : ERATO
56
Vamoose! : SCRAM
57
An oil source : SHALE
58
Half: Prefix : HEMI
59
Egyptian deity : AMON
61
Actress Moreno : RITA
62
Twerp's cousin : NERD
64
Iowa farm item : EAR

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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