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Nancy S. Ross
Nancy S. Ross

New York Times, Friday, April 13, 1990

8-Down : Humongous

Author:
Nancy Scandrett Ross
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J K Q }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 56.1
Nancy S. Ross has 34 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 22 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Nancy Scandrett Ross is an alias for Nancy S. Ross.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,766
Across
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May heroine : MOM
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Joseph's many-colored garment : COAT
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Pant's cousin : GASP
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Astronaut Shepard : ALAN
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" ... 'tis ___ leaves never a doorway to get in a god" : ODDHE
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Stravinsky : IGOR
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Mozart celebration : LENOZZEDIFIGARO
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"Niagara" star : MONROE
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Kind of lamp or galaxy : INFRARED
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Chess piece : MAN
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Ole or Merlin : OLSEN
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Ancient Campanian : OSCAN
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Endre ___, great Hungarian poet : ADY
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Shippers' abbrs. : NTWTS
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Utterly : ALL
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Chemical suffix : ENE
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Lebanon's capital : BEIRUT
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Milano landmark : TEATROALLASCALA
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Worshiped ones : HEROES
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Prune center : PIT
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Employ busily : PLY
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Upright monument : STELE
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Golfer Woosnam : IAN
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Ruminates : MUSES
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Dame Edith or Maurice of films : EVANS
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Nol of Cambodia : LON
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Streams : CURRENTS
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Esoteric : ARCANE
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Strauss opera : ARIADNEAUFNAXOS
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Endure : LAST
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___ nous : ENTRE
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The Red and the Black : SEAS
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Attempt an escape : FLEE
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Over : DONE
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Ursula Andress role : SHE
Down
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Mixture used in brickmaking : MALM
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The cheaper spread : OLEO
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"The Magic Mountain" author : MANN
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Deceive : COZEN
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Horace composition : ODE
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Violetta's farewell : ADDIODELPASSATO
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In a scanty way : THINLY
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Humongous : GIGANTIC
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Ice-cream thickener : AGAR
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Tender : SORE
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Goad : PROD
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Sutherland role : NORMA
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Offenbach duo : EFFS
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Biblical city in the Nile delta : ZOAN
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Worth and Castle : IRENES
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Vows : OATHS
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Wintry precipitation : SLEET
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Irish county : CLARE
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Memorabilia : ANA
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Completes filming : WRAPS
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Prom-dress fabric : TULLE
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Lingers : STAYS
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Greek goddess of dawn : EOS
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Ruth's weapon : BAT
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Stand : TOLERATE
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Fastened, nautically : REEVED
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Author Yutang : LIN
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Plan : INTEND
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Eve's opposite : MORN
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One of the Mohicans : UNCAS
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"Green Gables" girl : ANNE
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"Le Baiser de ___," Stravinsky ballet : LAFEE
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Shoe material : CALF
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Caspian Sea feeder : URAL
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Ascend : RISE
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Lumberjacks' tools : AXES
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Biblical builder : NOAH
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To be, in old Rome : ESSE
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Keatsian subject : URN

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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