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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Thursday, October 25, 1990

21-Down : Nicholas Gage book

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 21.7
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,961
Across
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Shade trees : ELMS
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Clue : HINT
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Imbibed : DRANK
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Barkley sobriquet : VEEP
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Building support : IBAR
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Forearm bones : RADII
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Culture preceder : AGRI
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Queue : LINE
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Wrongdoings : EVILS
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"Peanuts" : NICKELSANDDIMES
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The Tatler essayist : STEELE
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Wolf's relative : DOG
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Singer Fitzgerald : ELLA
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"Old ___," Disney classic : YELLER
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Pale : ASHEN
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Pollster Roper : ELMO
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Trabant or Rambler : AUTO
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Start of a team cheer : TWOBITSFOURBITS
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Poi plant : TARO
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Idol : HERO
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Sassafras quartet : ESSES
46
African river : UBANGI
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___ the Red : ERIC
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Footed vase : URN
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Certain leathers : SUEDES
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Symbol of phoniness : THREEDOLLARBILL
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Haley book : ROOTS
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Peru's capital : LIMA
65
Except : SAVE
66
"___ Rappaport," Broadway hit : IMNOT
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Gets some sun : TANS
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Natal town of soprano Mitchell : ENID
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Intends : MEANS
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Friend of Antony : EROS
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Headland : NESS
Down
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A memorable Maurice : EVANS
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Lawful, for short : LEGIT
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Choreographer Cunningham : MERCE
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Railroad nail : SPIKE
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Ancient Jewish spiritual leader : HILLEL
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Sacred bird of 12 Down : IBIS
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Zola novel : NANA
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Current style : TREND
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Deepen a channel : DREDGE
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Sitarist Shankar : RAVI
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Take ___ view of : ADIM
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Cleo's river : NILE
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Smack : KISS
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Nicholas Gage book : ELENI
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"How ___ do?" : DOYOU
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___-majesté : LESE
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Actress Woodard : ALFRE
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Chem. students' work areas : LABS
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Pitcher Tiant : LUIS
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Major ending : ETTE
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Betsy or Diana : ROSS
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Aleutian island : ATTU
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Mop, as a deck : SWAB
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Israeli dance : HORA
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"Psychic Warfare ... " author : EBON
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Secure a ship : MOOR
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Baseball's "hot corner" : THIRD
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Happen again : RECUR
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Visitors : GUESTS
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"The law ___": Dickens : ISAASS
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Actor Nick of "The Deep" : NOLTE
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He was Jed Clampett : EBSEN
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Keaton or Sawyer : DIANE
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Idol from Tupelo : ELVIS
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Arctic transports : SLEDS
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Neat : TRIM
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"___ on the Range" : HOME
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Columnist Barrett : RONA
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Type of collar : ETON
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Rail in reverse : LIAR
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K-P connection : LMNO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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