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Manny Nosowsky
Manny Nosowsky

New York Times, Friday, August 27, 1993

30-Down : Emulate the Pied Piper

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.43, Missing: { J K Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 90, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry.
Manny Nosowsky has 8 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 246 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,998
Across
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Unresisting : PASSIVE
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Black leopard : PANTHER
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Unfolds : EVOLVES
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Behind the eight ball : INAHOLE
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Most moist in the morning : DEWIEST
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Sporting a tag : LABELED
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Stage device : DROP
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Card of the future? : TAROT
22
Advantage : EDGE
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Wool: Comb. form : LAN
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Knee percher : TOT
25
Second word in an anthem : SAY
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River in Bavaria : EGER
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Yielded : CEDED
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Ready to eat : DONE
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Caulks the cracks again : RESEALS
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Drives up the wall : DEMENTS
35
Walk in water : WADE
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One to grow on? : ACRE
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Showed results : PAIDOFF
40
As a whole : ENMASSE
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In a talented manner : ABLY
44
Giants and A's : TEAMS
46
"Younger ___ Springtime" : THAN
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Free of : RID
48
Tell a whopper : LIE
49
Mythical monster : ORC
50
African flower : ALOE
52
Pooh's creator : MILNE
54
Therefore : ERGO
55
Poker-faced : DEADPAN
57
"The ___," 1983 Finney film : DRESSER
59
Authorize : ENTITLE
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Mise ___ (stage setting) : ENSCENE
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Puts in office again : RESEATS
62
Hates : DETESTS
Down
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Cheap-jack : PEDDLER
2
Par for the course : AVERAGE
3
Do an odd farm chore? : SOWONESWILDOATS
4
Fall from grace : SLIP
5
"___ Got a Secret" : IVE
6
Sleeveless garb : VEST
7
Conditions : ESTATES
8
Did a conn job : PILOTED
9
Course for a med. student : ANAT
10
Catch a crook : NAB
11
"Get ___ to a nunnery": Hamlet : THEE
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Does another odd farm chore? : HOLDSONESHORSES
13
Classily clad : ELEGANT
14
Some night flights : REDEYES
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Mandrel : ROD
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Duly equipped : READY
28
Hollow area : CLEFT
29
Acheson and Martin : DEANS
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Emulate the Pied Piper : DERAT
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___ Annie of "Oklahoma!" : ADO
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A year in McKinley's Presidency : MCM
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Drum major in action : PARADER
38
Where Eisenhower grew up : ABILENE
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All the cats : FELINES
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Did an editor's job : EMENDED
41
"El Jaleo" painter : SARGENT
42
Recalls at the Met : ENCORES
45
Be under the weather : AIL
51
Actress McClurg : EDIE
52
Sundae alternative : MALT
53
Bird of merit? : ERNE
54
Verb suffix : ESCE
56
School gp. : PTA
58
A direction in Roma : EST

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 4 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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