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Barbara Lunder Gillis
Barbara Lunder Gillis

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New York Times, Sunday, December 7, 1975

8-Down : Moslem month

Author:
Barbara Gillis
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 72, Avg Word Len: 5.27, Missing: { Z }, Scrabble score: 557 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 106, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 16
Barbara Lunder Gillis has 18 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Barbara Gillis is an alias for Barbara Lunder Gillis.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,612
Across
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Partners : SPOUSES
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Difficulty : RUB
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Bors or Gawain : SIR
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Bridge : SPAN
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U.S. painter : CASSATT
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Indonesian islands : ARU
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Tire : JADE
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Village in Ireland : TARA
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Kind of case : ATTACHE
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Halloween props : JILLOLANTERNS
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Ericson : LEIF
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Pelvic bones : ILIA
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Helpless : LOST
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Vermont resort : DORSET
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Life force: Abbr. : DNA
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Liquor personified : JOANBARLEYCORN
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Dawdled : MOPED
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Swallow hard : GULP
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Claims : AVOWS
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Iranian faith : BAHAI
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Image : ICON
44
Israeli dance : HORA
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Partner of a will : AWAY
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Leaf angles : AXILS
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Author Roger : KAHN
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Fluff : LINT
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Miss Rich : IRENE
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Shell game of a sort : REGATTA
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Obliquely : ASLANT
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Math-sum unit : ADDEND
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Pale : ASHY
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World power: Abbr. : USSR
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Perfectly : IDEALLY
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Excessively : TOO
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Ted Shawn's dance center : JACQUELINESPILLOW
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Baba or Pasha : ALI
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Corona : AUREOLE
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Food fish : CERO
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Haze : MIST
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City in Illinois : MOLINE
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Workroom : STUDIO
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Famous Moor : OTHELLO
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English writer : MILNE
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Channels : GATS
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First N.T. book : MATT
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Furniture wood : ALMON
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Bills : ONES
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Cinema's James Wong : HOWE
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Furry fliers : BATS
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Baffles : BEATS
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Quarrel : RUNIN
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Snood's burden : HAIR
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Boundary : AMBIT
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Buck-passing words : LETGEORGIADOIT
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Prepared : APT
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Kind of jacket : STRAIT
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Bit of sediment : DREG
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Tax, in Britain : CESS
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Pool : MERE
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Durable Brandon Thomas farce : CHARLENESAUNT
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Arrays : ATTIRES
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Sea in Russia : ARAL
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Descartes : RENE
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Recent: Prefix : NEO
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Writer of satire : IRONIST
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Gemstone : RUBY
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French possessive : SES
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Ship: Abbr. : STR
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Timidity : COYNESS
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Burn : SCALD
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Church plate : PATEN
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Town near Rome : OSTIA
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Mil. branch : USAF
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Pouch : SAC
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Native of Addis Ababa : ETHIOP
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Pillars : STELAE
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Moslem month : RAJAB
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Swiss canton : URI
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Civil War creek : BULLRUN
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Piquant : SALTY
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Peak in Crete : IDA
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Pacific island : RENDOVA
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Aft : STERNWARD
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Plays good golf : PARS
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English composer : ARNE
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U.S. cartoonist : NAST
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Many-colored plant : JOSEPHINESCOAT
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Droop : LOLL
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Spanish ring figure : TORO
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Ink or rubber : INDIA
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Support beam : JOIST
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Contests : AGONS
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Vehicle : CART
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Asian peninsula : MALAYA
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Showy perennial : SWEETWILMA
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Theda : BARA
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Tools : AXES
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Dangerous plane rider : HIGHJILLER
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Stiffness : CHARLOTTEHORSE
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Recorded : ONTAPE
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___ Domini : ANNO
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Tokyo, once : YEDO
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Punjab city : KASUR
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Do a pier job : LADE
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Pastoral poem : IDYL
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Stocking cap : TUQUE
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Like steno-pad paper : LINED
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Consign : ALLOT
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Alternate : SEESAW
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Israeli money : LIROT
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Malacca or sugar : CANE
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Son of Tros : ILUS
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Breakfast food : OMELET
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Bombs, bullets, etc. : AMMO
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Kind of cloth : LOIN
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Las Vegas machine : SLOT
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"Sixteen ___" : TONS
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In a narrow way : INSULARLY
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Japanese ware : IMARI
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Custom : HABIT
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Fight-timer's need : GONG
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Hebrew letter : TSADE
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Ballplayers at times : HITTERS
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V.I.P.'s : BIGGUNS
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Armstrong : NEIL
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Vicinity : AREA
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Decorative work : MOSAIC
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Cabaret : BISTRO
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Pleasurable spots : EDENS
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Character or ham : ACTOR
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Nest : AERIE
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Kind of pass or release : PRESS
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Orals : TESTS
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Cliff : SCAR
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Finished, for short : THRU
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Austrian statesman : RAAB
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Home of H.H.H.: Abbr. : MINN
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Born: Fr. : NEE
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Fishing gear : NET
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Bauble : TOY

Answer summary:
14 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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