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Jeanne Wilson
Jeanne Wilson

New York Times, Thursday, September 23, 1982

22-Across : Needing to be taken to the cleaners

Author:
Jeanne Wilson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { G J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0
Jeanne Wilson has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,007
Across
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Bishop's assistant : VICAR
6
Egyptian deity : PTAH
10
Ferrer and Torme : MELS
14
" ... gift is from ___": James 1:17 : ABOVE
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Italian river : ARNO
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Elliptical : OVAL
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Gracefully draped garments : SARIS
18
Like Salome : SEDUCTIVE
20
Disquisition : TREATISE
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Needing to be taken to the cleaners : SOILED
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Kind of bag : TOTE
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Ego : SELF
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"Blue book" family : ASTORS
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No, no, no : REFUSALS
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___ Haute : TERRE
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Sphere : REALM
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Party mixture : DIP
35
Twists the truth : LIES
36
Circumspect : CHARY
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Cornea irritant : MOTE
38
Literary oddments : ANA
39
Actors Blore and Fleming : ERICS
40
"Judith" actress: 1965 : LOREN
41
Dregs : SEDIMENT
43
Overfond lovers : DOTERS
44
Half gainer, e.g. : DIVE
45
Clusters of cells on ferns : SORI
46
100 centimos : PESETA
49
Push a button : ACTIVATE
53
Unresponding : IMPASSIVE
55
Hides : MASKS
56
Pianist Gilels : EMIL
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Explorer Hedin : SVEN
58
Societal character : ETHOS
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"Darn!" : RATS
60
Jane Rochester, nee ___ : EYRE
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Former vocalist for Erskine Hawkins : REESE
Down
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Boundless : VAST
2
Constructional piece : IBAR
3
Center : CORE
4
Balbo, Mitchell, Post et al. : AVIATORS
5
What a spa might do : RESTORE
6
Outmoded : PASSE
7
What Daphne became : TREE
8
Conjunction : AND
9
Dipterous insect : HOUSEFLY
10
Recurring themes : MOTIFS
11
Baseness : EVIL
12
Wash : LAVE
13
Kane's "Rosebud" : SLED
19
Padraic ___, Irish poet : COLUM
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"___ a warm wind ... ": Masefield : ITS
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___Tower, world's tallest building : SEARS
25
Rockefeller Center statue : ATLAS
26
Net : SEINE
27
Tire pattern : TREAD
28
Become innervated : REACT
29
Honor piously : ADORE
30
Successor to our quart? : LITER
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Sir Patrick of balladry : SPENS
33
"Watch on the ___" : RHINE
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Break in a dike : CREVASSE
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Impel : MOTIVATE
39
Issues : EMITS
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Harness-hardware maker : LORIMER
42
Ultimates : IDEALS
43
Period : DOT
45
Tantrum : SCENE
46
Marina mole : PIER
47
Madame Bovary : EMMA
48
Rod for a roast : SPIT
49
Say it is so : AVER
50
Tennis great : ASHE
51
Fight endings, for short : TKOS
52
Actual existence : ESSE
54
___ League : IVY

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