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Brown
Brown

New York Times, Thursday, June 9, 1983

57-Across : Mitchum's milieu

Author:
Brown
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { B F J K Q }, Scrabble score: 304 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 32.2
Brown has 7 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,266
Across
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Hemingway sobriquet : PAPA
5
Pipe or day follower : DREAM
10
Not bonkers : SANE
14
He outranks a viscount : EARL
15
Opposite of income : OUTGO
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Unsolved question : CRUX
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Artificial cavern : GROT
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A spectral type : CSTAR
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Kind of culture : AGRI
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Six stars in Cygnus : NORTHERNCROSS
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A servant in "The Taming ... " : TRANIO
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___ Paulo, Brazil : SAO
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Volleyball barrier : NET
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Soak flax : RET
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French price : PRIX
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Cen. divisions : YRS
33
Expecting eagerly : ATIP
35
Concert halls : ODEA
37
Better executed : NICER
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Wynne's invention: 1913 : CROSSWORDPUZZLE
44
Pick-me-up : TONIC
45
Limerick man : LEAR
46
___-de-vie (brandies) : EAUX
47
State : SAY
49
Suffix with scan : SION
51
Hwy. : RTE
52
Not mated : ODD
55
Hades : DIS
57
Mitchum's milieu : MOVIES
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Contradictory objectives : CROSSPURPOSES
63
Owl howl : HOOT
64
Kilt feature : PLEAT
65
Kind of watch : STOP
68
Poet Lazarus : EMMA
69
Cream of the crop : ELITE
70
Fatigue : TIRE
71
Nap : REST
72
Units of force : DYNES
73
Flat-bottomed boat : SCOW
Down
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British clothespin : PEG
2
Rhine tributary : AAR
3
Faulty foot posture : PRONATION
4
Illinois city : ALTON
5
Author of "Ragtime" : DOCTOROW
6
Kind of hour : RUSH
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Imitation: Suffix : ETTE
8
Food stabilizers : AGARS
9
French cheese sauce : MORNAY
10
Hilum : SCAR
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About 1 percent of the atmosphere : ARGON
12
Go-between for Juliet : NURSE
13
Have being : EXIST
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Tear : RIP
22
Horn : CORNU
23
Extent : TRACT
24
Prefix for fire or rocket : RETRO
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Yaz, to Red Sox fans : IDOL
30
Fount of sherry : XERES
32
Glaze with glue : SIZE
34
Greek letters : PSIS
36
Louisiana Indian : ADAI
38
Tyrannous : CZARISTIC
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Cleanse with a solvent : ELUTE
40
Harrison and Reed : REXES
42
A great deal : SCADS
43
Furthers : PROMOTES
48
Complained, puppy style : YIPPED
50
Beckett's "___ Knife" : NOS
52
Earthy pigment : OCHER
53
Ending for hippo or motor : DROME
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Kind of day : DOOMS
56
Tarnish : SULLY
58
Dons a dalmatic : VESTS
60
Act of Cong. : STAT
61
Check : REIN
62
Goose-liver spread : PATE
66
Gold in Genova : ORO
67
Communicant's bench : PEW

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

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