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Frances Hansen
Frances Hansen

New York Times, Thursday, January 5, 1989

Author:
Frances Hansen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q V }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 3, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 34.3
Frances Hansen has 81 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 40 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,303
Across
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Bud : GERM
5
Abruzzi bell town : ATRI
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Northern highway : ALCAN
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Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
15
Objective pronoun : WHOM
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Nursery porridge : PEASE
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Dainty drinks : SIPS
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A swan was her swain : LEDA
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"City of Light" : PARIS
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Bundle of wheat : SHEAF
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Bogart in "High Sierra" : EARLE
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Slave Turner : NAT
25
With 39 and 51 Across, swimsuit ad : OURBIKINISARE
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Pupil's place : IRIS
29
Kerry town of song : TRALEE
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Sheepish remark : BAA
35
Berlin's "Blue ___" : SKIES
38
Kind of slicker : CITY
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See 25 Across : EXCITINGTHEYARE
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Wedding ammo : RICE
44
Bridge maven Charles : GOREN
45
Sparks or Rorem : NED
46
Archie Bunker's daughter : GLORIA
49
"___ baby!" : ATTA
51
See 25 Across : SIMPLYTHETOPS
57
Take steps : ACT
59
Alcoholic strength : PROOF
60
Legendary Irish king : RONAN
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Mrs. Gorbachev : RAISA
63
Some ring victories, for short : TKOS
65
Martini of "The Gay Desperado" : NINO
66
Cancel : ANNUL
67
One of the Garr girls : TERI
68
Singer Stuarti : ENZO
69
Gospel sayings : LOGIA
70
Auto pioneer : OLDS
71
Fearing's "___ Reckoning" : DEAD
Down
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Painter's plasterlike preparation : GESSO
2
Root or Yale : ELIHU
3
More mature : RIPER
4
Minn. range : MESABI
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Leather-piercing tool : AWL
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"Of ___," 1932 Pulitzer musical : THEEISING
7
Japanese monster film: 1957 : RODAN
8
Kyushu porcelain : IMARI
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Show up : APPEAR
10
Poetic meadow : LEA
11
Red chalcedony : CARNELIAN
12
Vast land mass : ASIA
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"___-ce pas?" : NEST
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Leading the way : FIRST
23
W.W. II landing craft : LST
26
Baseball Hall of Famer Cuyler : KIKI
27
A bit risqué : RACY
30
Peut-___ (perhaps) : ETRE
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Gave the once-over : EYED
32
"Wozzeck" composer : BERG
33
Leaf angle : AXIL
34
Making a bold approach : ACCOSTING
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Cheap kind of trip : EGO
37
___-on-Avon : STRATFORD
40
Yesterday, in Roma : IERI
41
Eighth Hebrew letter : HETH
42
Stage direction : ENTER
47
High-bounding antelope : IMPALA
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Spring mo. : APR
50
Did penance : ATONED
52
Kin of bingo : LOTTO
53
Country bumpkin : YOKEL
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Cat-___-tails : ONINE
55
Don Quixote's Sancho : PANZA
56
Netty hair-protector : SNOOD
57
Soviet inland sea : ARAL
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"Arma virumque ___," "Aeneid" start : CANO
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Generis preceder : SUI
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Bro's sib : SIS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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