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Rhonda Kraus
Rhonda Kraus

New York Times, Thursday, April 14, 1988

62-Across : Girl in "The Children's Hour"

Author:
Rhonda Kraus
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 299 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Rhonda Kraus has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,037
Across
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Catches : BAGS
5
At the peak : ATOP
9
What second-story men do : SWIPE
14
In a frenzy : AMOK
15
Saintly sign : HALO
16
Exemplar : MODEL
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Cause of Jove's laughter: Juliet : LOVERSPERJURIES
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Pogo verb : TOLE
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Zola opus : NANA
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Yen : ITCH
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Rotters : CADS
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Org. for Fleming, Hamill et al. : NSA
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Cotton thread : LISLE
34
"Exodus" hero : ARI
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Companion to every : EACH
37
Oozed : SEEPED
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Parting, to Juliet : SUCHSWEETSORROW
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Clever : ASTUTE
42
Snacks : EATS
43
Cuckoo : ANI
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Disgrace : SHAME
45
An NCO : CPL
46
British carbine : STEN
47
Currency in Colombia : PESO
49
Roof edge : EAVE
52
Zodiacal creature : CRAB
55
Homeless ones : TRANSIENTS
60
The lark, to Romeo : HERALDOFTHEMORN
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Girl in "The Children's Hour" : ALICE
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Apple or walnut : TREE
64
Eyeglass case : ETUI
65
Certain Borneans : DYAKS
66
Turfs : SODS
67
Like Kant's works : DEEP
Down
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Indonesian isle : BALI
2
Egyptian sun god : AMON
3
It's located at Wash., D.C. : GOVT
4
Hanks : SKEINS
5
Bret Harte character : AHSIN
6
Imitate Honi Coles : TAPDANCE
7
Olive, to Ovid : OLEA
8
Authority on mercy : PORTIA
9
Dallas inst. : SMU
10
Of greater merit : WORTHIER
11
Personal: Comb. form : IDIO
12
Pare : PEEL
13
Other : ELSE
18
Initials at Woolwich : RMA
19
Word with set or lag : JET
24
Singer Laine's namesakes : CLEOS
25
Houses, in Havana : CASAS
26
In ___ (hurrying) : ARUSH
27
Authoritative pronouncements : DICTA
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Merino, for one : SHEEP
31
Young herring : SPRAT
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Former president of Italy : LEONE
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Newman or Aldrin : EDWIN
35
Name in cosmetics : ESTEE
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Inspire reverence : AWE
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Concorde, e.g. : SST
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Type of whale : HUMPBACK
40
Like Bach, Picasso et al. : TALENTED
45
Certain works in the Louvre : COROTS
46
Appeared : SEEMED
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Norm: Abbr. : STD
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Combustion residue : ASHES
51
"C'est la ___" : VIE
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African country : CHAD
53
Depend : RELY
54
Sortita : ARIA
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Crew cut's antithesis : AFRO
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Importance : NOTE
58
Verifiable : TRUE
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Small piece : SNIP
61
Guitarist Paul : LES

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

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