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Betty Jorgensen
Betty Jorgensen

New York Times, Wednesday, December 27, 1989

Author:
Betty Jorgensen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 16.4
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. 14,659
Across
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Chief Norse god : ODIN
5
Calamitous : TRAGIC
11
Communications call letters : NBC
14
Sand hill in Britain : DENE
15
Get a new set of radials : RETIRE
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Hearing shell : EAR
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C2H6OS : DMSO
18
Series enders : OMEGAS
19
Half a fly : TSE
20
Start of a photographer's come-on : LETSGOONINTOTHE
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A feast ___ famine : ORA
24
Choose : OPT
25
Was sick : AILED
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An ICBM : TITAN
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Newt : EFT
31
Coasters : SLEDS
32
Cordwood measures : STERES
34
Seat of Wayne Co., Utah : LOA
36
More of the come-on : DARKROOMAND
41
Billy Joel's "Just the Way ___ Are" : YOU
42
Whole : ENTIRE
45
Fla. seaport : MIAMI
50
M.D.'s : DRS
52
Classic car : ESSEX
53
Bay State city : ACTON
54
Slippery one : EEL
56
Greek letter : PSI
57
End of the come-on : SEEWHATDEVELOPS
62
"___ Pinafore" : HMS
63
Use a rasp : ABRADE
64
"Lord, ___ I?: Matt. 26:22 : ISIT
65
Raid the refrigerator : EAT
66
Add yeast : LEAVEN
67
Filly's mother : MARE
68
Angels of mercy: Abbr. : RNS
69
Rice and Gantry : ELMERS
70
Let off brake air : BLED
Down
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Small numbers of shares on Wall Street : ODDLOTS
2
Black mark at school : DEMERIT
3
Put in office : INSTATED
4
Modernists : NEOS
5
Military unit : TROOP
6
Distant : REMOTE
7
Egyptian solar deity : ATEN
8
Caron role : GIGI
9
Persia, now : IRAN
10
Jai-alai baskets : CESTAS
11
Irritate : NETTLE
12
Hit very hard : BASHED
13
Beliefs : CREEDS
21
He's had it : GONER
22
OPEC's export : OIL
27
Celestial Altar : ARA
29
Baker's necessity : FLOUR
30
Also : TOO
33
Omar's inverted Bowl : SKY
35
Soul, to Simone : AME
37
Length measure : ROD
38
Anoint, old style : ANELE
39
Opp. of days : NTS
40
Device for getting rid of garbage : DISPOSAL
43
Breathe : RESPIRE
44
Lived : EXISTED
45
Photographer in the quip, e.g. : MASHER
46
He who cometh : ICEMAN
47
Bomb trials : ATESTS
48
Hayloft : MOW
49
See 43 Down : INHALE
51
Farm machine : SEEDER
55
Levels : EVENS
58
Fourth person : ABEL
59
Trolley in London : TRAM
60
Garroway or Brubeck : DAVE
61
Branch : LIMB

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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