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Robert Vaux Roop
Robert Vaux Roop

Togetherness

New York Times, Sunday, February 20, 1977

30-Across : Early rabbi

Author:
Robert Roop
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 76, Avg Word Len: 5.29, Missing: { J K Z }, Scrabble score: 529 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 133, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 20, Grid flow: 43.9
Robert Vaux Roop has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Robert Roop is an alias for Robert Vaux Roop.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,053
Across
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One of the clefs : BASS
5
___ splitting : SIDE
9
Rubber trees : ULES
13
Piles : HEAPS
18
Can. province : ALTA
19
Big birds : EMUS
20
Having hair : PILAR
22
Where the surrey's fringe is : ONTOP
23
Kind of drop or sheet : TEAR
24
Elec. units : AMPS
25
Eniwetok, e.g. : ATOLL
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Search widely : SCOUR
27
Serengeti coterie : HERDOFELEPHANTS
30
Early rabbi : TANNA
31
Seasick one's goal : SHORE
32
Starr : RINGO
33
Appearance : ASPECT
34
Drink : ADE
37
Jan. and Feb. : MOS
38
Native of a Cyclades island : MELIAN
39
Riding coteries : POSSES
40
Coterie in tutus : CORPSDEBALLET
43
Norse-myth figure : LIF
44
Filament: Suffix : TENE
45
Turkish title : AGA
46
Love song : SERENA
48
Times of day: Abbr. : AMS
51
Madison Ave. tenant : AGENCY
54
Legend : MYTH
56
Hideaway : DEN
57
Twangy : NASAL
59
___ Fail (Irish stone) : LIA
61
Ajax, to Greeks : AIAS
63
Prom coterie : STAGLINE
65
Berlin coterie : ALEXANDERSRAGTIMEBAND
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Rhodes wonder : COLOSSUS
72
Area: Abbr. : TERR
73
Diamond collector : LIL
74
Unfeeling : CRASS
75
Meadow : LEA
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Occupied-nation officials: Abbr. : MGOS
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Convoy coterie : ESCORT
84
___-gallon hat : TEN
85
Kingdoms : REALMS
88
Ear: Prefix : AUR
89
Song : ARIA
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Go wrong : ERR
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Youthful coterie : BOYSCOUTTROOP
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Noisy opera coterie : CLAQUE
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Hungarian food: Var. : GULASH
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Blue grass : POA
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R.R. stop : STA
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Many TV movies : RERUNS
104
San Antonio sight : ALAMO
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"___ Mio" : OSOLE
107
Final stanza : ENVOI
108
Pestilential coteries : SWARMSOFLOCUSTS
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"___ the vanquished" : WOETO
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Infertile moor : LANDE
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Swill : SLOP
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Earth goddess : GAEA
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Miss Terry : ELLEN
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Wakefield V.I.P. : VICAR
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Run easily : LOPE
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Common abbr. : ETAL
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Tears down: Var. : RASES
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French marshal and family : NEYS
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Novelist Wister : OWEN
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Dotted : SEME
Down
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Robe or towel : BATH
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Nautical word : ALEE
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Pupil or gazer : STAR
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Quartz pieces : SARDS
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Bouillabaisse, e.g. : SEAFOOD
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Dip : IMMERSE
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Twofold : DUPLE
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___ est percipi : ESSE
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Where Jack and Jill went : UPAHILL
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Prayers : LITANIES
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Like eels : ELONGATED
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Calif. sea : SALTON
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Coteries at the pearly gates : HOSTSOFANGELS
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Seals a bottle : ENCAPS
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___ wit's end : ATONES
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Swoop down on : POUNCE
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Jack and wife : SPRATS
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Literary initials : RLS
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Resistance units : OHMS
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One favoring church law : PRELATIST
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Neat as ___ : APIN
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Official proceedings : ACTA
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Tennis champ of 1930 : DOEG
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Sea bird : ERNE
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Hungarian : MAGYAR
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Play or fountain : PEN
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Dull noise : BAM
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Kind of soup : LENTIL
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Musical pause : REST
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India's locale : ASIA
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Author of "Death in Venice" : MANN
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Vehicle : SLED
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Old-grad groupings : CLASSREUNIONS
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Chinese weights : YINS
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Seraglio coterie : HAREM
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Vestment : ALB
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Ceylon moonstone : ADULAR
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Gulfweeds : SARGASSOS
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Parisian friend : AMIE
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C.P.A. : ACCT
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Erudition : LORE
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Zest : ELAN
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Navy-ship V.I.P.'s : XOS
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Donkey, in Bonn : ESEL
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Scrooge, for one : GROUCH
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Certain chaser's target : AMBULANCE
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No-seats sign : SRO
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Ford or Lincoln : CAR
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Spanish golds : OROS
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Outbreak : RIOT
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Pacific cloth : TAPA
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"___ 'ow!" (cockney toast) : ERES
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Time period : SOLARDAY
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Whines : YAMMERS
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Rise, as of a hill : UPSLOPE
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Like a fresh-air fiend's window : TOOOPEN
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Powder : TALC
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Worker on harnesses : CREWER
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Town in Latium : LENOLA
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Funeral feasts : ARVELS
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One who is cited : QUOTEE
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King Arthur's nephew : GAWAIN
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A person ___ tastes (boor) : OFLOW
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Early bravos : EUGES
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Part of a coat: Abbr. : SLV
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Northern capital : OSLO
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Glut : SATE
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Athletic coterie : TEAM
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Store event : SALE

Answer summary:
18 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 14 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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