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Arnold Moss
Arnold Moss

Mixed Sea Fare

New York Times, Sunday, November 17, 1974

132-Across : State of some weightlifters

Author:
Arnold Moss
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 170, Blocks: 97, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { Z }, Scrabble score: 626 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 142, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 19, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 17, Grid flow: 32.0
Arnold Moss has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,227
Across
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Kind of domo : MAJOR
6
Moabite king : BALAC
11
Summit : ACME
15
French smoke : TABAC
20
"There ___ books like a dame" : ARENO
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Confirmation ritual : ALAPA
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Soldier at Verdun : POILU
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Balbo : ITALO
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Hangouts : NESTS
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Actress-writer Taylor : RENEE
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Accessory for Stern : ROSIN
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Kind of pneumonia : VIRAL
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Bowery-bound : ONTHESQUIDS
31
Roman chef's pride : SCALLOPINE
33
Demolish: Var. : RASE
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Self: Prefix : AUT
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___ Pueblo : USS
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Adjective suffix : IAL
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Cochineal, e.g. : DYE
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"Am I my ___?" : BROTHERSKIPPER
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Trochees and iambs : METERS
52
Give an engagement ring : SEALATROTH
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Fitzgerald : ELLA
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Russian lake : ONEGA
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To ___ his own : EACH
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Belgian violinist : YSAYE
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"Now you ___, now you ... " : SEEIT
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Source of "Summertime" : PORGYANDBASS
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Sack of a kind : SAD
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Romanov edict : UKASE
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April 15 org. : IRS
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Barrie pirate : SMEE
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Fiber knot : NEP
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Cool one of l920's : CAL
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Mother's kin : ENATES
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Merganser : SMEW
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Guthrie : ARLO
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Bigwig : NABOB
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Smear : DAUB
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Eardrums : HERRINGAIDS
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___ detergent : ALLPORPOISE
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500 city, for short : INDY
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Yorkshire city : LEEDS
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Jazzman Hines : EARL
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Aces : ONES
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Kind of electric switch : TOGGLE
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Copies for eds. : MSS
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Mesabi matter : ORE
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Wool units : LEAS
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Graduate degrees : MAS
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End : OMEGA
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Tin-roof dweller : CAT
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U. S. Chief Justice : SALMONPCHASE
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Correspond : TALLY
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Socrates's place : AGORA
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Bring a vessel into the wind : EASE
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___ the town : OUTON
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Smooth, in France : UNIE
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Rocking-chair locale : FRONTPERCH
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U. of Ore. site : EUGENE
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Condition after 40 or so : MIDDLEAGESPRAT
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York, e.g. : SGT
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Power org. : AEC
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___ Lanka : SRI
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Claire : INA
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Dies ___ : IRAE
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People with forks : PIANOTUNAS
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State of some weightlifters : MUSSELBOUND
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Idiom : ARGOT
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Kind of eclipse : LUNAR
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Solzhenitsyn, e.g. : EXILE
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Source of strength : UNION
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Indira's robes : SARIS
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Feed a fire : STOKE
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Observant one : NOTER
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Actress Christian : LINDA
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Delusion's kin : SNARE
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Minx : SNIP
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Long bit of hair : TRESS
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Fundamentals : BASES
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"A ___ a fish?" (The Tempest) : MANOR
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Field of conflict : ARENA
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"He ___ at scars, that ... " : JESTS
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___ ball : ONTHE
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Merman-Lansbury role : ROSE
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Sailing vessel : BARQUE
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Alaskan : ALEUT
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Wool: Prefix : LANI
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Mimicked : APED
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Verse pause : CAESURA
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Month: Abbr. : APR
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Bills' partner : COOS
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Odds and ends: Abbr. : MISC
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Kazan : ELIA
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Copenhagen park : TIVOLI
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"Take ___ from me" : ATIP
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Apulian port : BARI
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Actor Alda : ALAN
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Old king : COLE
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Like some phone numbers : UNLISTED
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Simon ___ : SAYS
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Indian money unit : LAKH
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Hurok : SOL
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Match a poker raise : STAY
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Carts : DRAYS
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"Hostage" author : BEHAN
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Elevations: Abbr. : HTS
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Like blackboards : ERASABLE
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Shade of purple : ROYAL
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Type of blouse : PEEKABOO
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Fold : PLEAT
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"Für ___" (Beethoven) : ELISE
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Deserves : RATES
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Listless : MOPISH
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Gigantic: Fr. : ENORME
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More pithy : TERSER
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Word with plant or roll : EGG
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College degree : SCB
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Crisis source : ENERGY
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Novelist St. Johns : ADELA
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Lula Vollmer hit of 1920's : SUNUP
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French nut : AMANDE
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Horse ___ : SENSE
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Marienbad, e.g. : SPA
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High pass : COL
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Winter-cap device : EARLAP
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Squirmed : WRIGGLED
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Whetting device : OILSTONE
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Iraqi port : BASRA
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Girl's name : DORENE
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Filling : INLAY
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From, in Paris : DES
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Columbus's port : PALOS
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Prisoner : INMATE
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Spice : SEASON
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Ancient ascetic : ESSENE
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___ Passos : DOS
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Small top : TOTUM
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Muscat native : OMANI
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Icy : GELID
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Biblical people : MAGOG
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Exclusive group : ELECT
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Kit Carson, e.g. : SCOUT
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Lamb furs : CARACULS
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___-jongg : MAH
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Bunny ___ : HUG
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Wall St. term: Abbr. : RTS
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Book supplements: Abbr. : APPS
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Prosody units : FEET
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Deviate : ERR
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Attire : RAIMENT
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Same, in France : EGAL
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Founder of Taoism : LAOTSE
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Curls the lip : SNEERS
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Wight and Man : ISLES
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Aegean region : IONIA
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Persepolis sight : RUINS
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Electrode : ANODE
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Best and Millay : EDNAS
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Base on balls : PASS
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Where Tabriz is : IRAN
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Taj Mahal site : AGRA
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Roulette term : NOIR
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Bastogne word : NUTS
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Presently : ANON
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H. H. Munro : SAKI
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Roman wife : UXOR
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Location : SITE
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Tulip's start : BULB
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Pol. party : REP

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14 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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