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Nancy Nicholson Joline
Nancy Nicholson Joline

New York Times, Saturday, August 26, 1989

61-Across : Buddhist sect

Author:
Nancy Joline
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.28, Missing: { J X }, Scrabble score: 310 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Nancy Nicholson Joline has 61 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 48 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Nancy Joline is an alias for Nancy Nicholson Joline.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,536
Across
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Makes one's own : ADOPTS
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Palestinian leader : ARAFAT
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Author-illustrator Maurice : SENDAK
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Emends : REVISES
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Very long words : SESQUIPEDALIANS
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Egg: Comb. form : OVI
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Banal : TRITE
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Naval historian Alfred ___ : MAHAN
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Beatty film: 1981 : REDS
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"The Merry Widow" composer : LEHAR
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"A Doll's House" heroine : NORA
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Deuces' neighbors : TREYS
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"I could a ___ unfold ... ": Shak. : TALE
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Brood : SULK
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Part of N.B. : NOTA
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Dry, as wine : SEC
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Notice : SEE
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Places of great interest : MECCAS
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Expedites : SPEEDS
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"___ Clear Day," 1965 song : ONA
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Bowl sound : RAH
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Equip : GEAR
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Poet Teasdale : SARA
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Libertine : RAKE
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Trigonometric functions : SINES
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"Omnia vincit ___" : AMOR
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Word with fry or potatoes : SMALL
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Smoked salmon : NOVA
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Ancient region of Asia Minor : IONIA
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Ephemeral : BRIEF
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Buddhist sect : ZEN
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Place to find 16 Across : CROSSWORDPUZZLE
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"The Bartered Bride" composer : SMETANA
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Dickinson and Post : EMILYS
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Relatives on one's mother's side : ENATES
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Exhortation to sinners : REPENT
Down
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Classify : ASSORT
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Kipling's Danny : DEEVER
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One kind of kick in football : ONSIDE
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Right away : PDQ
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Trim : TAUT
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Play a bagpipe : SKIRL
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Singer Franklin : ARETHA
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Cardplayers' sometime demands : REDEALS
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Ex of Mickey and Frank : AVA
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Thin membrane : FILM
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Tamils and Thais : ASIANS
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Far Eastern eatery : TEAHOUSE
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Like rush-hour traffic : SNARLED
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Famed Michelangelo sculpture : PIETA
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Bushmaster and mamba : SNAKES
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Harmony, informally : SYNC
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A.F.B. in Tex. : REESE
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What hawks and hopes can do : SOAR
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Winter Palace residents, once : TSARS
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Inc.-tax pros : CPAS
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Where tesserae are found : MOSAIC
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Charms : ENAMORS
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Gilda's "Rigoletto" aria : CARONOME
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Anagram for rein : ERIN
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Pea-soup ingredient : HAMBONE
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Icy : GELID
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Out of the sack : ARISEN
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Actor Alex : KARRAS
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Spout : NOZZLE
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Track star Ashford : EVELYN
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Most compos mentis : SANEST
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Outcast : LEPER
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Shaft, in Sevilla : ASTA
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"Drows'd with the ___ of poppies ... ": Keats : FUME
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Angkor ___, Cambodian temple : WAT
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Pizazz : ZIP

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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