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Martha J. DeWitt
Martha J. DeWitt

New York Times, Thursday, December 28, 1989

50-Down : Laughing

Author:
Martha J. DeWitt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Grid flow: 30.7 Grid has duplicate clues.
Martha J. DeWitt has 72 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,660
Across
1
Site of the Leaning Tower : PISA
5
Espies : SEES
9
Monastery : ABBEY
14
Equable : EVEN
15
Al, the New Orleans trumpeter : HIRT
16
Beats decisively : ROUTS
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Carry on : RANT
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Give someone the eye : OGLE
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Social class : CASTE
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Total of a bill : COST
24
Words from sponsors : ADS
25
Identify again : REPEG
28
Rubberneck : STARE
31
Bikini top : BRA
34
Evasive one : ELUDER
36
Screecher : OWL
37
Sir Christopher, the architect : WREN
38
Invalids : VALETUDINARIANS
41
Summers, in Soissons : ETES
42
Impresario Hurok: 1888-1974 : SOL
43
Diminutive : PETITE
44
Author Whitten : LES
45
Pegasus, for one : STEED
47
Kind of tube : INNER
48
Spring month in Metz : MAI
49
"Rule, Britannia" composer : ARNE
51
59
Slyly sarcastic : SNIDE
60
Haydn's nickname : PAPA
61
Kind of jerk : SODA
62
Places : SITES
63
Sanction : AMEN
64
"But milk my ___ and weep": Shak. : EWES
65
Leaning : ATILT
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Imparted : LENT
67
Pub missile : DART
Down
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Land of the Incas : PERU
2
Actor Dixon : IVAN
3
Remit : SEND
4
Goes before in time : ANTECEDES
5
Flu preventers : SHOTS
6
Crazy ___ (card game) : EIGHTS
7
Director Kenton : ERLE
8
Ragout : STEW
9
Ornamental carving on furniture : ARCADE
10
Plats and punts : BOATS
11
Kind of whacker : BUSH
12
Room follower : ETTE
13
Belgian river : YSER
21
Thesaurus man : ROGET
22
Pinna : EARLAP
25
Carousal : REVEL
26
Gladden : ELATE
27
Whines : PULES
29
___ de jouy (upholstery fabric) : TOILE
30
Arista : AWN
31
Kind of storm : BRAIN
32
Periodic income, in Paris : RENTE
33
Goose genus : ANSER
35
Bucolic : RUSTIC
37
Observed : WITNESSED
39
John or Jane : DOE
40
An anagram for siren : REINS
45
Least risky : SAFEST
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Make moist : DAMPEN
48
Paradigm : MODEL
50
Laughing : RIANT
51
Pelion's supporter : OSSA
52
Cohort : UNIT
53
Small monkey : TITI
54
Girasol : OPAL
55
Kin of Patrick Dennis? : MAME
56
Part of the Louisiana Purchase : IOWA
57
Central European river : ODER
58
Condé, the publisher : NAST

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