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Mermelstein
Mermelstein

New York Times, Saturday, October 25, 1980

5-Down : Kind of acid or oxide

Author:
Mermelstein
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 23.7
Mermelstein has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,309
Across
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Cousin of "Ciao!" : TATA
5
Adjective for some stores : NAVAL
10
Angel dust is one : DRUG
14
Stirred up : AGOG
15
How the Frosts treated the Snows? : ICILY
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An alternative to medium : RARE
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Israeli song? : BEGINTHEBEGUINE
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Swift works : SATIRES
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Bribes : OILS
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Sale condition : ASIS
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Name on a D.C. hospital : REED
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Trouble on the set : STATIC
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Locus of power : SEAT
29
Where to shed care : SPA
32
Ellery's rival : ERLE
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"Meanwhile, back at the ___ ... " : RANCH
34
Set the pace in a race : LED
35
Locale of a certain hog? : MIDDLEOFTHEROAD
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Colleague of Monty : IKE
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He wasn't afraid of Virginia Woolf : ALBEE
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Latin start for Hamlet's soliloquy : ESSE
42
Jr.'s elder : SEN
43
North Sea feeder : YSER
44
Toxophilite : ARCHER
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Tribulations : WOES
47
Like Wayne's grit : TRUE
48
Boîte belle: 1915–63 : PIAF
50
Likely to succeed, as a starlet : BUDDING
53
What divers in pools do? : GOOFFTHEDEEPEND
57
Number of Worthies : NINE
58
Jackson Sec. of War : EATON
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Salver familiar to solvers : TRAY
60
SALT participant : USSR
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Square one : START
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Disseminates : SOWS
Down
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What sports pick up : TAB
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Jaques's heptad : AGES
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Cato's covering : TOGA
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In a stew : AGITATED
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Kind of acid or oxide : NITRIC
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Companion of pains : ACHES
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Tries for a prize : VIES
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Amice's relative : ALB
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Solution used in ablutions : LYE
10
Stonehenge priest : DRUID
11
Spot for #1 horse at a derby : RAIL
12
Garden planters : URNS
13
Command to Dobbin : GEE
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___ prius court : NISI
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Author of "Egmont" : GOETHE
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Nice income : RENTE
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"___ to his choice ... ": Kipling : EACH
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Coin of ancient Rome : SEMIS
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Three-wheeler : TRIKE
27
Mayflower passenger : ALDEN
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Media man Morley : SAFER
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Tramp in a bog : SLOSH
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Kind of British pudding : PEASE
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Crawler or summer : ADDER
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Pierre's apparel? : ROBES
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What Macduff didn't do : LAYOFF
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Word in a threat : ELSE
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The take : RECEIPTS
44
Like Romeo or a Dromio : ARDENT
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Unwrought or uncouth : RUDE
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A symbol of thinness : WAFER
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English dynasty or choreographer : TUDOR
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Nantes vegetable : POIS
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Physicists' concerns : IONS
50
Bright star : BETA
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Fiddler in a fire : NERO
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Chew on : GNAW
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Kokoon : GNU
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French possessive : TES
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Type of trick for a Ranger : HAT
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Prefix for function : DYS

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