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Betty Jorgensen
Betty Jorgensen

New York Times, Friday, January 20, 1989

20-Across : Start of a joke

Author:
Betty Jorgensen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Betty Jorgensen has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 8 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,318
Across
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Homophone for classifieds : ADZE
5
Help a hood : ABET
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Bitterly pungent : ACRID
14
King who named his country after himself : SAUD
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Lake, in poesy : MERE
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Snap : PHOTO
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Homophone for I'll : ISLE
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___ fixe, on a French menu : PRIX
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Indian coin : RUPEE
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Start of a joke : AHUNGERSTRIKER
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Notable period : ERA
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Benevolent brothers' animal : ELK
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Esoteric : ARCANE
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Sing Sing, e.g. : PEN
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"Three men in ___" : ATUB
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Dolphins' home : MIAMI
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Father : SIRE
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Suffix for Bronx : ITE
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More of the joke : ISGAININGWEIGHT
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Respectable grade : CEE
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Crazy ___ (card game) : OTTO
44
Bodies of knowledge : LORES
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Goofs : ERRS
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Modern: Prefix : NEO
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Napa Valley company : WINERY
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Gray general : LEE
51
Homophone for a classic car : RIO
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End of the joke : HEEATSFASTFOOD
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Stein's "Three ___" : LIVES
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Leftovers entree : HASH
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Columnist Bombeck : ERMA
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Maven : ADEPT
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Greek flask : OLPE
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Stiff collar : ETON
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French patron saint: Var. : DENYS
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Yields, in a way : PAYS
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Homophone for order to a fly : SHOE
Down
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Largest land mass : ASIA
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Frustrate : DASH
3
Signal word for the last letter : ZULU
4
Where a man was ribbed : EDEN
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Current measure : AMPERE
6
He had catching statements : BERRA
7
Mythical pome pitcher : ERIS
8
Short passage of Scripture : TEXT
9
Carman's "___ Airs" : APRIL
10
Kind of boot : CHUKKA
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Espadrille-sole feature : ROPE
12
Caesar's concourse : ITER
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Homophone for moolah : DOE
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Tutelary deities : GENII
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Subscribe again : RENEW
25
Priestly shawl : AMICE
26
An early one is healthy, wealthy. etc. : RISER
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Laker, e.g. : CAGER
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Doctors' org. : AMA
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Mottled : PINTO
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Therefore : ERGO
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Big cat, to Mimi : TIGRE
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King Arthur's sire : UTHER
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"Heavens" girl : BETSY
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Lot, e.g. : SITE
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Piece for an ennead : NONET
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He wrote "The Waste Land" : ELIOT
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Charged particle : ION
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An admirer of Snow White : SLEEPY
48
Horses in an iffy proverb : WISHES
50
Shrine Bowl teams : EASTS
51
Grating : RASPY
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Homophone for Jekyll's alter ego : HIDE
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Tied : EVEN
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Boutique : SHOP
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Famous pooch : FALA
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Lawyers' charges : FEES
57
Straight: Comb. form : ORTH
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Melville opus : OMOO
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Homophone for condescend : DANE
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"A Shropshire ___": Housman : LAD

Answer summary:
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