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Bryant White
Bryant White

New York Times, Saturday, February 6, 1993

15-Across : Piers

Author:
Bryant White
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.34, Missing: { Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Bryant White has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 29 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,796
Across
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John Paul II's tenure : POPEDOM
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"___ diva," Bellini aria : CASTA
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Medium : AVERAGE
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Ten-point types : ELITES
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Piers : JETTIES
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Pantheon priests : FLAMENS
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Soviet workers' cooperative : ARTEL
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Smoked meat : CURED
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Actress ___ Dawn Chong : RAE
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Caen corn : MAIS
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Type of button : PANIC
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Delivered : SENT
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TV alien : ALF
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Noted French glass-vase designer : GALLE
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Ocelots have lots of these : SPOTS
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Navigator's aid : LORAN
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Prefix with pose : INTER
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Well-known forces : GOODANDEVIL
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Empty : BLANK
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Sampras and Fountain : PETES
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"Aftermath" author and family : HABES
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Blake subject : TIGER
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By way of : VIA
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Epinicia : ODES
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Neighbors of radii : ULNAE
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Fortitude : SAND
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Canaille : MOB
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Shorthand system : GREGG
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Baccarat declaration : BANCO
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Certain chicken : BROILER
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Farmer : GRANGER
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Madden might analyze it : REPLAY
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Bull's-eye, e.g. : LANTERN
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Gaul's chariot : ESSED
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Bonuses at concerts : ENCORES
Down
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"The ___ Game," Day film : PAJAMA
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Including everything : OVERALL
3
What shysters do : PETTIFOG
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Lithographs by a Russian-born artist : ERTES
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Ireland's lower house : DAIL
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Haitian national hero : OGE
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Small cactus : MESCAL
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Accoutered : CLAD
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Goal : AIM
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Kind of camera : STEREO
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Anne Brontë's "The ___ of Wildfell Hall" : TENANT
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Property and cash : ASSETS
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"Monopoly" co. : ELEC
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Quaker, to Quaker : FRIEND
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Separating a chain : UNLINKING
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Bearcat : PANDA
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Spar for a leg-of-mutton sail : SPRIT
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London lockups : GAOLS
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Cleave : SEVER
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Galabias : ROBES
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Fox's home : TEPEE
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Crown or surroyal : ANTLER
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Town in Norway : LEVANGER
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Genuine : SINCERE
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Guy : HOMBRE
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Loves greatly : ADORES
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Jazz styles : BEBOPS
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Flock of geese : GAGGLE
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Embellishes : ADORNS
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Deuterium's discoverer : UREY
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___ Domingo : SANTO
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Happy : GLAD
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Judge's bench : BANC
51
___ de France : ILE
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Aegir's wife : RAN

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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