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Margaret W. Huskey
Margaret W. Huskey

New York Times, Thursday, July 7, 1988

21-Down : Bacterium

Author:
Margaret W. Huskey
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { B F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Margaret W. Huskey has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,121
Across
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Boston ___ Orchestra : POPS
5
Okla. Indian : OSAGE
10
Cloudlike aggregation : MIST
14
Tree ___ (quiver tree) : ALOE
15
Early Soviet leader : LENIN
16
Rialto org. : ANTA
17
Author Uris : LEON
18
Sea duck : EIDER
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___- do-well : NEER
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Hardwood tree : MAHOGANY
22
Trees that grow in wetlands : ALDERS
24
Quebec's Lévesque : RENE
25
Culture medium : AGAR
26
Slow down : RETARD
29
Make-believe : PRETENSE
33
Seth's mother : EVE
34
Singer Haggard : MERLE
36
African antelope : ELAND
37
The 4077th, for short : MASH
39
Ranch in "Giant" : REATA
41
Kind of rug : SHAG
42
Runs in neutral : IDLES
44
Concerning : ANENT
46
Haw. instrument : UKE
47
Cooperative effort : TEAMWORK
49
Oxford's river : THAMES
51
Porsena of Clusium : LARS
52
Gunlock catch : SEAR
53
Type of nut tree : ALMOND
56
Tree that yields a yellow dye : AMARILLO
60
This (girl), to Galba : HAEC
61
"Romola" author : ELIOT
63
Bird-feeder treat : SUET
64
Russian city : OMSK
65
Annual income, in Arles : RENTE
66
Budget, in Berlin : ETAT
67
Some votes : YEAS
68
Kraut preceder : SAUER
69
Pianist or fiddler : NERO
Down
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Tropical tree : PALM
2
Olive genus : OLEA
3
"Winnie-the-___" : POOH
4
A spouse in Sevilla : SENORA
5
Poisonous shrub : OLEANDER
6
Net on a schooner : SEINE
7
Williams or Griffith : ANDY
8
Give, in Glasgow : GIE
9
Infuriate : ENRAGE
10
Lathe spindles : MANDRELS
11
Arrow poison : INEE
12
Suffix with young or old : STER
13
Sticky substances : TARS
21
Bacterium : GERM
23
Recent : LATE
25
Valor : ARETE
26
Pardon : REMIT
27
Dodge : EVADE
28
Induction-motor inventor : TESLA
29
Platform part : PLANK
30
Old Testament book : NAHUM
31
Racer, e.g. : SNAKE
32
Flanges : EDGES
35
Raises : REARS
38
Trees used in tanning : HEMLOCKS
40
Sticky-tongued mammal : ANTEATER
43
Graceful bird : SWAN
45
"___ she blows!" : THAR
48
Mandates : ORDERS
50
Gone up : ARISEN
52
Struck : SMOTE
53
Nautical cry : AHOY
54
Like some excuses : LAME
55
Big butte : MESA
56
Indigenous Japanese : AINU
57
Stringed instrument : LUTE
58
Norman of TV : LEAR
59
Lyrist Harbach : OTTO
62
Grassland : LEA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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