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Virginia Butler
Virginia Butler

New York Times, Saturday, February 13, 1982

49-Across : Dutch seaport

Author:
Virginia Butler
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { C F K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 40.0
Virginia Butler has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,785
Across
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Sweep of a scythe : SWATH
6
Jupiter and Saturn, e.g. : ORBS
10
Insect in the post-larval stage : PUPA
14
Johnny Mercer's dream girl : LAURA
15
Niggardly : NEAR
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Straight ___ arrow : ASAN
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Annunciation figure : ANGEL
18
Clubs, e.g. : MINORSUIT
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" ... should ___ not heard" : BESEENAND
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Oklahoma Amerind : OSAGE
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What all planners must have : AIMS
24
Crossed swords, perhaps : DUELED
25
Veiled, elderly woman, in art : STANNE
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Molded clay : PUG
29
Bob, for one : HAIRDO
30
Prepares an oven before baking : PREHEATS
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Deity for Meccans : ALLAH
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Rob Peter to ___ Paul : PAY
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Dismay : APPAL
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Wearing a pith hat : HELMETED
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Scornful; cynical : SNEERY
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A tense for Homer: Abbr. : AOR
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Not extreme : MODEST
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Recall : MEMORY
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What to show an unwanted visitor : DOOR
48
Watchful : ALERT
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Dutch seaport : ROTTERDAM
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Bakery offering : JELLYROLL
56
Where the eagle has landed : AERIE
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Cyma reversa : OGEE
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Mignon follower : ETTE
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Scoria : DROSS
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Male gypsies : RYES
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Nosegay : POSY
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Cries out sharply : YIPES
Down
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Thick slice : SLAB
2
Dwindle : WANE
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Summer mos. : AUGS
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Horseradish of E. Indies : TREE
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Vigorous : HALEANDHEARTY
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"Put the Blame ___" : ONMAME
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Saddlers' products : REINS
8
Goodman group : BAND
9
Sign for which playwrights pine : SRO
10
Like spats : PASSE
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Customary : USUAL
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Hall of Fame pitcher : PAIGE
13
Chipped in one's chip : ANTED
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Crude but effective : ROUGHANDREADY
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Tenor Martini : NINO
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Fair share : DUE
25
Objective of many a plug : SALE
26
Box for bucks : TILL
27
Saroyan hero : ARAM
28
Detach by leverage : PRY
29
In one word, "I told you so!" : HAH
30
Layer on a football player : PAD
31
Inventor of a sign language : EPEE
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What an epigone does : APES
33
Cutting : TART
34
Shakespearean tinker : SLY
36
___ capita : PER
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Kazoo, for one : TOY
40
Lampblack : SOOT
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Heterogeneous : MOTLEY
43
Shaw's Barbara : MAJOR
44
Gray's brought him praise : ELEGY
45
Homophone for Malay : MELEE
46
Heraldic fillets : ORLES
47
Numbskulls : DOLTS
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Prefix with beater : ROTO
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Soprano Grist : RERI
51
Stage curtain : DROP
52
Comfortable, in Cannes : AISE
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G.I. refectory : MESS
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What a KO artist earns : REP

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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