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Willemain O. Cable
Willemain O. Cable

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New York Times, Sunday, September 6, 1987

Author:
Willemain O. Cable
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 72, Avg Word Len: 5.27, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 521 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 117, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 15, Grid flow: 39.6
Willemain O. Cable has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,816
Across
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Sphere of Phoebus : SUN
4
U.S. port of entry in Tex. : ELPASO
10
Winter Olympic race, introduced in 1964 : LUGE
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Soothe : LULL
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Chevet : APSE
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Any buteo : SOARER
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Cusp : APEX
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Hodgepodge : OLIO
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A for a fisherman; F for a rower : CAUGHTACRAB
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A for a sorority sister; F for a wrestler : GOTPINNED
26
Magnani, Duse et al. : ITALIANE
27
Scaling aid : PITON
29
Pleistocene glacial period : ICEAGE
30
Gets rid of the fuzz : DELINTS
31
Lugs : TOTES
32
Takes in altogether before costs : GROSSES
33
Golly! : GEE
34
Reef polyp : CORAL
35
Schism : RENT
36
Lots : FATES
39
Horatio's "morn, in russet ___" : MANTLECLAD
42
Bishop's title in many Eastern churches : ABBA
46
Lotion ingredient : ALOE
47
Rani's robe : SARI
48
Crash into : RAM
49
Gaseous refrigerant : FREON
50
Zero : NIL
51
A for Ellery Queen; F for a piano mover : CRACKEDACASE
56
W.W. II amphibious vessel : LST
57
Fun chaser : GADABOUT
60
Separated : ALONE
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Realities : TRUTHS
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Then, in Amiens : ALORS
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Wrangle : ARGUE
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Discontinue : CEASE
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Go through a sentence : DOTIME
68
Austen and Flaubert heroines : EMMAS
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Brought a cutthroat to net : REELEDIN
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Words with king and mode : ALA
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A for Pete Rose; F for a disk jockey : BROKEARECORD
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Shaft lining : ORE
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Treasure : VALUE
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Crave : YEN
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Home of Iowa State U. : AMES
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Hexagonal crystalline particles : SNOW
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Balanced : EVEN
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Verdi roles for sopranos : DESDEMONAS
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Drained : SPENT
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Active one : DOER
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Pep up : LIVEN
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Org. helpful to pupils : PTA
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Occludes : ABSORBS
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Cut back : PARED
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Start playing for a living : TURNPRO
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Eliot's Bustopher Jones : TOMCAT
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Underwater-mine finder, e.g. : SONAR
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Points in planets' rounds : PERIGEES
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A for a professor's class; F for a bank teller : TOOKNOTES
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A for a starlet; F for Greg Louganis : MADEASPLASH
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Start to make a pot : ANTE
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Tenuous : RARE
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Etoile's term for "on the ground" : ATERRE
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Phillies' manager : ELIA
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Shepherd's pipe : REED
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Sought money via Wapner : SUED
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Adjourn briefly : RECESS
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Refuge for man or beast : DEN
Down
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Outburst : SPATE
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As expected : USUAL
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Boudoir wear : NEGLIGEE
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Dumbarton Oaks, e.g. : ESTATE
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Advances : LOANS
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Go before and lead : PACE
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Airport abbr. : ARR
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Shipping harbor : SEAPORT
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In revolution : ORBITAL
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Capital of Nigeria : LAGOS
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Informed of : UPON
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Catch : GET
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Terminated : EXPIRED
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Tex. logo : LONESTAR
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Cubiti : ULNAS
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Vassal : LIEGE
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Loaded veins : LODES
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Mordant for Durer or Hogarth : ACID
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Jerome of the Met : HINES
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Sacred painting or mosaic : ICON
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Psychic affinity : TELE
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Bracer : TONIC
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Western U.S. pasture grass : GRAMA
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Factor in gem pricing : CARAT
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Canine tooth : FANG
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Inter ___ : ALIA
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A for Mr. Dickens; F for Pinocchio : TOLDATALE
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Japanese merchant vessels : MARUS
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Weight lifter : CRANE
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Colberteen, e.g. : LACE
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A for Ethel Merman; F for an inebriate : BELTEDONE
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Nonsense : BOSH
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Aardvark's diet : ANTS
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Point maker : SCORER
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Savage : FERAL
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Buddhist principle of causality : KARMA
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"Pomp and Circumstance" man : ELGAR
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Quench : DOUSE
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Old war horses : STEEDS
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Foreman floorer in 1974 : ALI
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Parisian's frozen dessert : BOMBE
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Manipulate : USE
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Better : AMEND
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Proserpina's mother : CERES
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Slugger Winfield : DAVE
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Royal name in Norway : OLAV
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Stretches one's wherewithal : EKES
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Kind of nose : ROMAN
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Putter, for one : IRON
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Salamander : NEWT
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Some criminal trials : OYERS
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Tanned : CANED
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Not abridged : UNDOCKED
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Glittering : SPANGLED
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Victims of some sharks : DEBTORS
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Ginger : ELAN
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City S of Fort Lauderdale : MIRAMAR
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Risked obesity : OVERATE
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Husk : STRIP
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Algerian coastal city : ORAN
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Puckers : PURSES
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Rose-petal product : ATTAR
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Cumberland Gap guide : BOONE
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Struck : SMOTE
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Assumed a false identity : POSED
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Niobe's outflow : TEARS
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American portrait painter : PEALE
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Gamboge, for one : RESIN
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___ Peak, in N.M. : OSHA
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Moistureless : SERE
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Balzac's "Le ___ Goriot" : PERE
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Initial for Triton : TAU
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Nov. follower : DEC

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

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