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Alfio Micci
Alfio Micci

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New York Times, Sunday, January 20, 1980

32-Down : Gambling mecca

Author:
Alfio Micci
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 142, Blocks: 76, Avg Word Len: 5.14, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 538 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 117, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 16
Alfio Micci has 91 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 11 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,030
Across
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Greeks' ligneous ruse : HORSE
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Plied with potions : DOSED
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Turn left : HAW
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Hit, old style : SMIT
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Mythical Greek hunter : ORION
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Apocopate : ELIDE
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Harem room : ODA
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Singer Cantrell : LANA
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Some disks : LAMBDAPIRECORDS
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"___ on her toes" : BELLS
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"What ___ is new?" : ELSE
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Bellow work : NOVEL
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Certain shoe sizes : TRIPLEETAS
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Caner's material : RATTAN
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Louis XIV and XVI : ROIS
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Algonquian : OTTAWA
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Conclamation : SHOUT
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Oboist's concern : REED
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"Masterpiece" on wheels : SHAY
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G.I. fare : KAPPARATIONS
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Do a sailor's job : SWAB
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Rye beard : AWN
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Devilkin : IMP
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Ballerina Alicia : ALONSO
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Olive shade : STONEGRAY
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Cravat : TIE
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Eskimo craft : UMIAKS
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Ruminant : DEER
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Sheer fabric : TOILE
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Bare : STRIPPED
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Used a mangle : IRONED
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Ornamental stud : AGLET
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Former draft org. : SSS
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Dakar is its capital : SENEGAL
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Public Health agcy. : SGO
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Prefix with gram or meter : MILLI
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Top floors : ATTICS
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Stained : MACULATE
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Of an eye part : UVEAL
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Sticky substances : GOOS
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Netherlands city : LEIDEN
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Race the motor : REV
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To-do : COMMOTION
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Legendary magician : MERLIN
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Pasture sound : MAA
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Kin of secs. and mins. : HRS
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Partner of void : NULL
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Vintage car : MODELTAUFORD
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French cleric : ABBE
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A one : TOPS
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Laconic : TERSE
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Ultra : TOOTOO
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Table d'___ : HOTE
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Bed item : SPREAD
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Kind of house : ALPHAFRAME
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Fable ending : MORAL
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Bridge position : EAST
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Swift : FLEET
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Frederick Knott melodrama : DIALMUFORMURDER
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Granular snow : FIRN
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Frequently, to poets : OFT
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Silly : INANE
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Bambino's parent : MADRE
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Certain votes : YEAS
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___ Paulo : SAO
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Lament : DIRGE
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Food portion : PLATE
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Burrow : HOLE
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Buccal : ORAL
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Fellies : RIMS
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Recover from a wassail : SOBERUP
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Fragment : END
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Warehouse : DEPOT
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Tony of A.L. fame : OLIVA
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Lorelei : SIREN
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Pulitzer Prize biographer : EDEL
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Nov. follower : DEC
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Frightful : HORRID
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___ Ababa : ADDIS
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Vespid : WASP
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Like a hibernal glaze : SLEETY
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Gozo's neighbor : MALTA
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Family member : INLAW
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Tax, in Torino : TASSA
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Pismire : ANT
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Siouan Indians : OTOES
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Air rifle : BETABETAGUN
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Buddhist monk, free from karma : LOHAN
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One ___ time : ATA
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Gambling mecca : RENO
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Vaudeville offerings : SKITS
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___ up (emote) : HAMIT
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"Happy Hooligan" cartoonist : OPPER
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"La Cenerentola" composer and family : ROSSINIS
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Excalibur : SWORD
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Highway features : RAMPS
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"I cannot tell ___" : ALIE
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Poisonous mushroom : TOADSTOOL
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Sign : INK
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Bethlehem sight : STEELMILL
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Seed covering : ARIL
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Weave wickerwork : WALE
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Red refusal : NYET
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The Seine, to Spaniards : SENA
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"The Overcoat" author : GOGOL
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W.W. II menace : UPSILONBOAT
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Arctic transport : DOGSLEDS
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Eastern religion : ISLAM
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Kind of room, for short : REC
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Harrow's rival : ETON
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Part of an opera : SCENA
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Start of a Shakespearean title : MUCH
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Novello : IVOR
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Moon vehicles : LEMS
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Lively : AGILE
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Mine entrance : ADIT
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Arthurian wear : ARMOR
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Lacerates : TEARS
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Dodge : EVADE
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" ... ___ I saw Elba" : ERE
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Like a ___ lard : TUBOF
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Be gloomy : MOPE
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Roadside sign : MOTEL
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Western lizard : UTA
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Kind of case : FEDERAL
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Georgia city : ATHENS
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Part of b.l.t. : TOMATO
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Molasses confection : TAFFY
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Stan's partner : OLLIE
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___ buffa : OPERA
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City on the Bay of Acre : HAIFA
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To date : SOFAR
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Antler tip : PRONG
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Peep show : RAREE
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Shade giver : ELM
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TV predecessors: Abbr. : RDOS
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Actor who played Zola : MUNI
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Egyptian skink : ADDA
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Painter José Maria : SERT
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Family lineage : TREE
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Word with rib or riff : MID
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Fenway Pk. figure : UMP

Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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