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Nancy A. Wood
Nancy A. Wood

NIGHT LIFE

New York Times, Sunday, October 25, 1981

8-Down : Destroy

Author:
Nancy A. Wood
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 76, Avg Word Len: 5.21, Missing: { J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 513 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 115, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,674
Across
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Trifling sum : GROAT
6
Phone attachment : CORD
10
Boundless : VAST
14
To a colleen, he's a spalpeen : SCAMP
19
Actor Meeker : RALPH
20
Opposite of apterous : ALAR
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Dies ___ : IRAE
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Terry item : TOWEL
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Absquatulate : ELOPE
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Lollygag : LAZE
25
World Series pitcher: 1948 : SAIN
26
Love in Aquila : AMORE
27
Nocturnal howlers : WEREWOLVES
29
One with a midnight curfew : CINDERELLA
31
Buenos ___ : AIRES
32
Housed : SHELTERED
34
Share the billing : COSTAR
36
Pinna : EAR
37
Work unit : ERG
38
Pluto's plaint : YELP
42
Imperfection : DEFECT
43
Dreary : DISMAL
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Douceur : SOP
48
Hutch dweller : DOE
49
Ouph : ELF
50
Deceive : HOCUS
52
Early church lang. : LLAT
54
What some spirits do : HAUNT
56
Pub offering : ALE
57
Early time : IRONAGE
59
Golfers' considerations : DISTANCES
62
Ponti's wife : LOREN
64
Connect : RELATE
66
Turner, e.g. : PAINTER
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Greek contest : AGON
69
Della Casa and Kirk : LISAS
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Whit : MOTE
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North Carolinian : TARHEEL
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Paton place : AFRICA
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Allow : ADMIT
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Like most monsters : DISTORTED
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Star in Scorpio : ANTARES
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Gold, in Genova : ORO
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A friend of Job : ELIHU
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Salem, to Essex Co., Mass. : SEAT
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What ogres cause : ALARM
90
Milne character : ROO
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Where a herd might be heard : LEA
92
Nocturnal prowler : RAT
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Pigments for Peale : OCHERS
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Floating : NATANT
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One of the Hoppers : EDNA
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Roulette bet : BAS
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Hill, to an Arab : TEL
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With wisdom : SAGELY
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Pen : INCLOSURE
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Santander sir : SENOR
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Deadly nightshade : BELLADONNA
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Nocturnal flier : VAMPIREBAT
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Buoyantly : ONAIR
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Actress Patricia : NEAL
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Landed : ALIT
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Architect Jones : INIGO
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Cat-___-tails : ONINE
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One below a marquess : EARL
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Familiar farewell : TATA
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Histrio : ACTOR
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Ocean hazards : BERGS
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Squirrel's nest : DREY
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Dummkoff : ESEL
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Rundown : SEEDY
Down
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Developed : GREW
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Kin of a wheeze : RALE
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Smell, in Toledo : OLOR
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Conciliate : APPEASE
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Midnight : THEWITCHINGHOUR
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Barn-dance official : CALLER
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Norwegian kings : OLAVS
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Destroy : RAZE
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Clothes : DRESSES
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Intuitive : VISCERAL
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Thin as ___ : ARAIL
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Jeanne, for one : SAINTE
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Auxiliary boats : TENDERS
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Fixed look : STARE
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Broadway's "Arsenic and Old Lace," e.g. : COMEDY
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Mil. problem : AWOL
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European blackbird : MERL
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Nul tiel record is one : PLEA
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Henry, e.g. : ORATOR
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Therefore : ERGO
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Shakespearean ghost : HAMLETSFATHER
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One of the strings : CELLO
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Present : OFFER
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Infer : EDUCE
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Misanthrope, perhaps : LONER
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Household members : PETS
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"Big ___!" : DEAL
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Cape Cod sight : DUNE
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"Manner ___ ... ": Cowper : ISALL
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Terhune canine : LAD
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These may cause screams in dreams : PHANTASMAGORIAS
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Band instrument : CORNET
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Gratuity : TIP
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Staked : ANTED
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Mother of the Titans : GAIA
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Maple seed : SAMARA
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Niña's uncle : TIO
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A spinner in space : EARTH
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Merit : EARN
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Poetic contraction : OER
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Shankar's instrument : SITAR
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Tessellated : TILED
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Meccawee, e.g. : ASIAN
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"___ Misérables" : LES
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Dieter's worries: Abbr. : CALS
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Upright : MORAL
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Literary device : IRONY
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Binge : TOOT
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Strike out : DELE
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___ volente : DEO
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Verdi opera : ERNANI
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In reality : ACTUALLY
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Start of a well-known series : ABCD
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Like a night owl : TALONED
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Produce levitation : ELEVATE
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Roman playwright : TERENCE
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Under the weather : AILING
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"___ and yet so far" : SONEAR
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Of a clan : SEPTAL
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Nostrils : NARES
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Kind of drum : SNARE
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Cuff : SMITE
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Dunce : BOOB
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Nine: Prefix : ENNE
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Retreat for Simba : LAIR
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Word of distress : ALAS
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Fall for a trick : BITE
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"Thou art ___ ... ": Neh. 9:17 : AGOD
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Loyalist of '76 : TORY

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3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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