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Josephine A. Felker
Josephine A. Felker

Plains-Speaking

New York Times, Sunday, January 2, 1977

93-Down : Cheated on an exam

Author:
J. A. Felker
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 166, Blocks: 96, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 605 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 152, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 14, Grid flow: 25.8 Grid has duplicate clues.
Josephine A. Felker has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
J. A. Felker is an alias for Josephine A. Felker.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,004
Across
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Clean : WASHUP
7
Violently : AMAIN
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Certain mater : ALMA
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Barbecue need : SPIT
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Give the cold-shoulder : IGNORE
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Ship, in Spain : BARCO
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On a ___ (carousing) : TEAR
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Part of "La Tosca" : SCENA
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Connecticut : THEPEANUTMEGSTATE
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Soviet mountains : URALS
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Infamous marquis : SADE
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More curious : NOSIER
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Kind of TV audience : LIVE
31
French painter : GRANET
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Turn in a way : UPEND
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Studied : PORED
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Good name : REPUTE
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Miss Lillie et al. : BEAS
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Knight of TV : TED
40
Mushroom : CEPE
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___ out (stayed) : SATIT
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Merman and Kennedy : ETHELS
44
Slip back : RELAPSE
47
Pronto : ATONCE
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Attack : LEAPAT
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Dreary account : LITANY
51
Kind of excuse : LAME
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Kind of bag : GRAB
55
Western gulch : ARROYO
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Hokkaido port : OTARU
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Sick's partner : TIRED
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Teen or dog's : AGE
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Auto-race city, for short : INDY
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Certain vote : YES
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In a while : LATERON
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___ Coeur : SACRE
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Corded fabric : REP
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Ski ___ : TOWS
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Thwarts : SPITES
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Certain sportsman : HIKER
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Follow : ENSUE
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Decrees : ORDAINS
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Tom : PAINE
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John : OHARA
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Easy win : SHOOIN
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Northern European : LAPP
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Map abbr. : RTE
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Kind of eclipse : LUNAR
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Lamp owner : ALADDIN
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Suffix for consul or sultan : ATE
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Old alloy : ASEM
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Antelope : GNU
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Heat, to Cicero : CALOR
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Disagreed loudly : BOOED
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Promise : ASSURE
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Indian flour : ATTA
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Kind of house : OPEN
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Tropical parrot : CONURE
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"___ for Sergeants" : NOTIME
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Shade of character : STRIPE
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Irritating : GALLING
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Connecting agent : UNITER
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Regional bird life : ORNIS
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Campus org. : ROTC
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High, in music : ALT
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Rhode Island denizens : REDS
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Penny ___ : ARCADE
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Location : SITUS
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Spanish paintings : DALIS
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Did a sewing job : DARNED
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Waste allowance : TRET
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Keep after school : PUNISH
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Malarial ailment : AGUE
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Semblance : IMAGE
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The works : FROMSOUPTOPEANUTS
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Tore around : RACED
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Skirt style : MINI
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Court decree : ARRET
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Songbird : LINNET
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Fraternal people : ELKS
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Voices : SAYS
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Forward : FRESH
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Leash, in Paris : LAISSE
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Dim and half : WITS
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Turkish title : AGHA
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Trim, in Scotland : SNED
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Actress Lange : HOPE
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Actress Mary : URE
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Insulting words : PEANUTSTOYOU
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Treated badly : ABUSED
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Before midi : MATIN
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Like a payroll guard : ARMED
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Baked-goods worker : ICER
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Drink : NOG
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Clothes : ATTIRES
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Decamp : LEAVE
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Joined : MATED
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Common verb : ARE
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Working on dirty pans : SCRAPING
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Christmas favorite : PEANUTCRACKERSUITE
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Narrow waterway : INLET
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Experience : TASTE
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" ... lamb was ___ go" : SURETO
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Relative of nah : NOPE
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Joe, sometimes : SLOPPY
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Jarred : GRATED
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Nitty-gritty : PEANUTSANDBOLTS
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Area of L.A. : BELAIR
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Always, to poets : ETERNE
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Tough problem : AHARDPEANUTTOCRACK
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Indian soldier : SEPOY
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Barton : CLARA
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"___ Time, Next Year" : SAME
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Minstrel's offering : LAY
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Music abbr. : RIT
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Relative of etc. : ETAL
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T.S. and family : ELIOTS
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Tidal flood : EAGRE
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Kind of leader : LOSS
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English composer : ARNE
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Drink : BEER
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Triplet : TRIN
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Sheep : EWES
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Roof ornament : EPI
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Lollipop or Pinafore : SHIP
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Biblical spring : AIN
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Peter or Ivan : TSAR
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Quarrel : SPAT
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New Deal org. : NRA
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Tea : OOLONG
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Jungle noise : ROAR
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Achieved : DID
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In ___ (succinct) : APEANUTSHELL
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Miss Korbut : OLGA
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Leigh and Marsha : HUNTS
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Sound : HALE
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Put on cargo : LADE
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Designated : TERMED
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Arabian rulers : EMEERS
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Column order : IONIC
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Certain word : NOUN
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Active : ASTIR
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Cheated on an exam : COPIED
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Planet inhabitants : APES
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Work unit : ERG
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Family member : SON
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Classifies : ARRANGES
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Hard hits : CLOUTS
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Verily : INDEED
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Moon goddess : ARTEMIS
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Big Dipper star : ALIOTH
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Speech trouble : LISP
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C'est ___ : ADIRE
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Of a branch : RAMAL
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Groove : STRIA
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Literary form : IRONY
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Barbizon painter : DUPRE
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Poker moves : ANTES
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Cat or motor sound : PURR
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Roman years : ANNI
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Revs the engine : GUNS
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U.S. Indians : UTES
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Italian family : ESTE
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Some radio stations : FMS
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Idiot : OAF
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Org. for Saarinen : AIA

Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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