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Margaret W. Huskey
Margaret W. Huskey

New York Times, Thursday, November 7, 1991

42-Across : Happy or stick preceder

Author:
Margaret W. Huskey
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F J K Q U V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 256 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 2
Margaret W. Huskey has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,339
Across
1
What a priest says : MASS
5
Party fare : DIP
8
Antiquated : PASSE
13
Report: Abbr. : ACCT
14
Aphrodite's son : EROS
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Colo. skiing center : ASPEN
17
Lion's communication : ROAR
18
Price : COST
19
Violinist Stern : ISAAC
20
Enemy of Madame Du Barry : MARIEANTOINETTE
23
Like an X-rated film : STEAMY
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Eager : ARDENT
25
Recipe abbr. : TBS
26
Lively, in Paris : GAI
27
Rossini hero : TELL
30
Letters in Einstein's famous formula : EMCEE
33
Psychiatrists' concerns : EGOS
35
Caviar : ROE
36
Large kettle : CALDRON
39
Aquatint specialists : ETCHERS
41
Co., in Caen : CIE
42
Happy or stick preceder : SLAP
44
Anagram for snare : EARNS
45
Dash : ELAN
47
Before, to the Bard : ERE
48
Type of vb. : INT
49
Withdraw : RETIRE
51
Kitchen utensils : RICERS
55
"Ole Buttermilk Sky" co-composer : HOAGYCARMICHAEL
58
Pavlova and Reynolds : ANNAS
59
Bancha and sunglo : TEAS
60
Start of the N.C. motto : ESSE
61
Right-hand page : RECTO
62
East, in Ecuador : ESTE
63
___ off (irate) : TEED
64
Dress carefully : PREEN
65
Peter and Paul: Abbr. : STS
66
Concordes : SSTS
Down
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Old West schoolteachers : MARMS
2
" ... he made him ___ of many colors": Gen. 37:3 : ACOAT
3
Startle : SCARE
4
Streaked : STRIATED
5
Rots : DECAYS
6
A kind of will : IRON
7
It's sometimes due : POSTAGE
8
"Common Sense" author : PAINE
9
Agreement : ASSENT
10
Pest in a pool : SPATTERER
11
Chair : SEAT
12
Suffix with transfer : ENCE
15
Summer place for furs : STORAGE
21
Glowing coals : EMBERS
22
Kind of board or box : IDIOT
28
Forsaken : LORN
29
Fewer's cousin : LESS
30
"___ Homo," Titian work : ECCE
31
Letters : MAIL
32
Type of sale : CLEARANCE
34
Like Yosemite : SCENIC
37
Acid of soap : OLEIC
38
Relate : NARRATE
40
Tomahawks : HATCHETS
43
Duke's wife, e.g. : PEERESS
46
Nullify : NEGATE
48
Blue flags : IRISES
50
Actress Cicely ___ : TYSON
52
Frees from anxiety : EASES
53
Alley button : RESET
54
Winter gliders : SLEDS
55
Trigon : HARP
56
Lulu : ONER
57
Dillon of "Gunsmoke" : MATT

Answer summary:
2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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