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Betty Jorgensen
Betty Jorgensen

New York Times, Wednesday, September 26, 1990

31-Across : Order to Fido

Author:
Betty Jorgensen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 21.2
Betty Jorgensen has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 8 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,932
Across
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Raced : SPED
5
Cummerbund : SASH
9
Taps down : TAMPS
14
Novice : TYRO
15
"___ girl!" : ATTA
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Serviceable : UTILE
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Russian river : URAL
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Dressed : CLAD
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Opus for nine : NONET
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Start of a quip : BETTYHASJOINED
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H.C.H. opponent: 1928 : AES
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Take advantage of : USE
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Metallic element : COBALT
29
Garfunkel or Buchwald : ART
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Order to Fido : STAY
35
"___ Get Started With You," 1936 song : ICANT
36
Saline drop : TEAR
37
Notable period : ERA
38
More of the quip : THENAVYSHEISNOW
42
Slip : ERR
43
Love god : EROS
44
Part of a springe : NOOSE
45
Secretary : DESK
47
Knot in cotton fiber : NEP
48
Made an exact duplicate : CLONED
49
Self : EGO
51
Angle a nail : TOE
52
End of the quip : APERMANENTWAVE
60
Hillside : SLOPE
61
Lady's man : LORD
62
Made angry : IRED
63
Street show : RAREE
64
Mediocre : SOSO
65
Hurt : PAIN
66
Motionless : INERT
67
Nonesuch : ONER
68
Cinders of comics : ELLA
Down
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Short pencil : STUB
2
Heap on which Joan of Arc died : PYRE
3
Q.E.D. word : ERAT
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Simpleton : DOLT
5
Drawer freshener : SACHET
6
Cartography collection : ATLAS
7
Penn et al. : STAS
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Mecca trek : HADJ
9
Former Barbary state : TUNIS
10
Makes up for : ATONES
11
Golconda : MINE
12
Begged : PLED
13
Gel : SET
21
Famous meeting site: 1945 : YALTA
22
Bizarre : OUTRE
25
Quoted : CITED
26
Pigment for John Opie : OCHRE
27
Max and Buddy : BAERS
28
Mass. cape : ANN
29
Fabulous moralist or moralistic fabulist : AESOP
30
Cheers : RAHS
32
Mortise's partner : TENON
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Obeyed the alarm clock : AROSE
34
Deviated from course : YAWED
36
Londoner's radial : TYRE
39
Malice : VENOM
40
Table Bay is one : INLET
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U.S.-Canada canals : SOO
46
Big enough fish for an angler : KEEPER
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New World vulture : CONDOR
50
Say "hello" : GREET
51
Pithy : TERSE
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Author Paton : ALAN
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Minute opening : PORE
54
As well : ALSO
55
Cooper's was "High" : NOON
56
Dry the dishes : WIPE
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U.S.S.R. inland sea : ARAL
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Cloistered life : VEIL
59
Best of Hollywood : EDNA
60
___ Lanka : SRI

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

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