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Fennessy
Fennessy

New York Times, Friday, June 10, 1983

Author:
Fennessy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 85, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 32.0 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Fennessy has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,267
Across
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Nolan Ryan is one : ASTRO
6
Sept : CLAN
10
Church recess : APSE
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Steeped in dignity : STAID
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Unusual : RARE
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Elvers' elders : EELS
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Toleration : SUFFERANCE
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Mode of movement : GAIT
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Pronghorns : ANTELOPES
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Homeric witch : CIRCE
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Picture puzzle : REBUS
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Windbag : GASSER
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N.E. soda fountain : SPA
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Arabic word for hill : TEL
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Glee : MIRTH
29
Hanger on Tara's walls : HARP
31
Used : SECONDHAND
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Eye socket : ORBIT
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Kind of buoy : NUN
38
Prefix with vision : SUPER
39
This measures angles : PROTRACTOR
42
Time for Roman vespers : SERA
43
Pass through a block : REEVE
44
How the weasel goes : POP
46
Name of Columbo's basset : DOG
47
Petition for help : INVOKE
49
Absorb : SOPUP
51
Pope Saint ___: 283–96 : CAIUS
52
Author of "Christabel" : COLERIDGE
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Sums: Abbr. : AMTS
57
Lewd : LIBIDINOUS
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Topper's St. Bernard : NEAL
59
Western Indians : UTES
60
Bind or constrict : STRAP
61
Three spot : TREY
62
Rudiment : GERM
63
Actress Grimes : TAMMY
Down
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"The law is a ___ idiot": Dickens : ASSA
2
Daze : STUN
3
President who became Chief Justice : TAFT
4
More widespread : RIFER
5
Short poem : ODELET
6
Tosspot's sickness : CRAPULENCE
7
Turnpike parts : LANES
8
Bowlike objects : ARCS
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Originally called : NEE
10
Clytemnestra's lover : AEGISTHUS
11
Formed like a Flemish Beauty : PEARSHAPED
12
A piece of cake : SLICE
13
Depside is one : ESTER
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Judges' attire : ROBES
21
King and queen, e.g. : CARDS
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Snare : GIN
24
Boutique : SHOP
25
Young salmon : PARR
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Ornamental evergreen : ARBORVITAE
28
Target of antitrust laws : MONOPOLISM
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In heart-moving fashion : PITEOUSLY
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Dilute : CUT
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Last Julian emperor : NERO
34
Haul : DRAG
36
Ox-wagon trips : TREKS
40
Hail Mary : AVE
41
Caught a dogie : ROPED
45
Rigid grammarian : PURIST
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"___ Do This Sum," V. Herbert song : ICANT
48
Nomenclator : NAMER
49
Temperate : SOBER
50
A Niña companion : PINTA
52
Adduce : CITE
53
Res. hall : DORM
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Largest of the Marianas : GUAM
55
Behold : ESPY
57
Shallow box for fruit : LUG

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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