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Daniel Girardi
Daniel Girardi

New York Times, Wednesday, November 3, 1993

62-Across : Famed poetic pair

Author:
Daniel Girardi
Editor:
Mel Taub
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.89, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 25.4
Daniel Girardi has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 16,066
Across
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A son of Japheth : MAGOG
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Saturn's wife : OPS
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Poop, e.g. : DECK
13
Muscat resident : OMANI
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Companion of aah : OOH
15
Mideastern heights : GOLAN
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Burro blanket : MANTA
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Cliché's kin : PLATITUDE
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Ludicrous : ANTIC
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Dark-brown pigment : SEPIA
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Grant of film : LEE
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Janitorial equipment : MOP
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Bright lights : NEONS
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Where bargains are often found : BASEMENT
30
Agitated states : SNITS
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Deft : APT
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One of Artemis's companions : OREAD
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Very foolish fellow : IDIOT
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Highwayman of a kind? : TROOPER
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Slender javelin : ASSEGAI
42
___ Kush, Asian range : HINDU
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Old Greek dialect : DORIC
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Spare rib, once : EVE
46
Parasite : LEECH
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On a long rope : TETHERED
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Part of an atto : SCENA
52
Part of R.S.V.P. : SIL
53
Missile abbr. : ABM
56
"___ Right Jack," Sellers film : IMALL
58
Half a semicolon : COMMA
62
Famed poetic pair : BROWNINGS
64
Kind of gang or letter : CHAIN
65
Hawaiian island : LANAI
66
K.G.B.'s nemesis : CIA
67
"___ of Home," Lassie movie : HILLS
68
Preppy jacket : ETON
69
___ gaw mein (Chinese dish) : YAT
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Organic compound : IMIDE
Down
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N.Y.C. mus. : MOMA
2
Galsworthy's "___ of Devon" : AMAN
3
Wolfe hero Eugene ___ : GANT
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Punctual : ONTIME
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Italian composer: 1858-1924 : GIACOMOPUCCINI
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Bumbler's exclamation : OOPS
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Mush for Mario : POLENTA
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Figure : SHAPE
9
Speck : DOT
10
Month after Av : ELUL
11
Glenn Ford TV role as sheriff : CADE
12
Jerky joint : KNEE
15
Opera by 5 Down : GIANNISCHICCHI
18
Madre's brothers : TIOS
23
Balzac's "Le ___ Goriot" : PERE
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Faction : SIDE
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Saturday-night special? : BATH
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The "cruellest month": Eliot : APRIL
28
14 pounds in London : STONE
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Twerp : NERD
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Stockton beast : TIGER
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White wine of Italy : SOAVE
35
Challenge : DARE
37
Even : TIED
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Canzoni : ODES
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Models for Wyeth : SITS
44
Earache : OTALGIA
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Sphere starter : HEMI
49
God, to Solomon : ELOHIM
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Capital of Meurthe-et-Moselle : NANCY
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Up to : ABLE
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Rotten kid : BRAT
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Alone: Comb. form : MONO
57
Aspiring law stud.'s exam : LSAT
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A neighbor of Niger : MALI
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Clement : MILD
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Henri's handle : ANSE
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Colorless : WAN

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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