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Margaret W. Huskey
Margaret W. Huskey

New York Times, Thursday, June 16, 1988

Author:
Margaret W. Huskey
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Grid flow: 29.1
Margaret W. Huskey has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,100
Across
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Dross : SLAG
5
Poplar tree : ASPEN
10
Unruly child : BRAT
14
Jot : IOTA
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Fur scarf : STOLE
16
Painter Magritte : RENE
17
Gathering at the White House : PRESSCONFERENCE
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Bishopric : SEE
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Balzac's "Le ___ Goriot" : PERE
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Blunt; diminish : DEADEN
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Chianti, e.g. : WINE
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"Sustineo ___," U.S.A.F. motto : ALAS
25
Terrified : SCARED
28
Thrilling : ELECTRIC
32
Anxieties : CARES
33
Gordon of comics : FLASH
34
Stir : ADO
35
___ Gemayel, Lebanese President : AMIN
36
What quibblers split : HAIRS
37
___ Sedgwick, tragic heiress : EDIE
38
Light-Horse Harry : LEE
39
Author of "Jude the Obscure" : HARDY
40
Coop group : BROOD
41
Triple ___: 1882-1915 : ALLIANCE
43
New Orleans eleven : SAINTS
44
Uncivil : RUDE
45
Nine: Comb. form : ENNE
46
Sends a check : REMITS
49
Let it stand : STET
50
Kin of aves. : STS
53
Presidential address : STATEOFTHEUNION
56
Actor Jacques ___ : TATI
57
Wisdom tooth, e.g. : MOLAR
58
Anabaena or nostoc : ALGA
59
Rubber trees : ULES
60
Material for 36 keys : EBONY
61
Betty ___, cartoon flapper : BOOP
Down
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Tastes : SIPS
2
Learning : LORE
3
Fit to ___ : ATEE
4
Argon, e.g. : GAS
5
Rise : ASCEND
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Mart part : STORE
7
Southern bread : PONE
8
Sprite : ELF
9
Unnecessary : NEEDLESS
10
Kind of bone : BREAST
11
Sunder or splinter : REND
12
Suffix with resist : ANCE
13
Kett contemporary : TEEN
18
Certain moles : SPIES
19
Attain : REACH
23
Small songbird : WREN
24
Wing-shaped : ALARY
25
La ___, opera house : SCALA
26
Tylopod : CAMEL
27
Arabian gazelle : ARIEL
28
Omit : ELIDE
29
Radioactive element : RADON
30
Dostoyevsky's "The ___" : IDIOT
31
Some Princetonians : COEDS
33
Burlesque : FARCE
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Like Apollo : HANDSOME
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One of five on a map : ERIE
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___ couture (high fashion) : HAUTE
40
African language : BANTU
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Optical inflammation : IRITIS
43
Scornful : SNEERY
45
Frome of fiction : ETHAN
46
Alphabetic quartet : RSTU
47
Kin of etc. : ETAL
48
Best at chess : MATE
49
French battle site in W.W. II : STLO
50
Missile's home : SILO
51
A neighbor of Ghana : TOGO
52
Lead-pipe cinch : SNAP
54
Little pocket : FOB
55
Capture : NAB

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