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Victoria Black
Victoria Black
Alex F. Black
Alex F. Black

APRIL FOOLERY

New York Times, Sunday, April 26, 1987

1-Down : Fairy queen et al.

Author:
Victoria & Alex F. Black
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 73, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { X Z }, Scrabble score: 562 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 122, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9, Grid flow: 47.0
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,683
Across
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Pachyderm driver : MAHOUT
7
Strict precision : RIGOR
12
Flew the coop : BOLTED
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Underworld entrance, to an Italian : AVERNO
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Lincoln's co-speaker at Gettysburg : EVERETT
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Luzon seaport : APARRI
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Flamboyant financier? : BERNARDBAROQUE
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London's ___ Garden : COVENT
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Propelling device : SCREW
27
Hebrides island : IONA
28
Postage for chain letters? : BILKRATES
30
Primes for crimes : ABETS
32
Most competent : ABLEST
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Nest for Nesselrode : PIECRUST
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Black : INKY
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Cheroots' kin : STOGIES
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Creeps : INCHES
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Luau locale : LANAI
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Motorists' org. : AAA
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___ the finish : INAT
49
Cliff on Kauai : PALI
50
Jeanette's jumpy partner? : NELSONEDGY
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Recently deceased : LATE
53
Calm : PLACATE
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Objective : AIM
57
Trouble : WOE
58
Title for R.C. archbishops : MTREV
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Underground art site in Spain : ALTAMIRA
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Disposed : GIVEN
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Purify : REFINE
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Provincial ruler in Greece : NOMARCH
66
Famed Spanish archbishop-scholar : ISIDORE
68
Spa attraction : WATERS
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Lecture material : NOTES
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Aquatic plane : SEALEVEL
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Cut short : ABORT
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Ventilate : AIR
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Fold over : LAP
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___ Virginia Woolf : ADELINE
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John or tasse preceder : DEMI
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Imitation Stone? : MOCKJAGGER
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"Massa's ___ cold, cold ground" : INDE
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Loser to S. Grant : ELEE
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David's right-hand man : IRA
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Mr. T's associates : ATEAM
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Bitterness : RANCOR
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Last course : DESSERT
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Pompadour and Bovary : MMES
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Citrus shelter : ORANGERY
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Turning points : CRISES
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Dutch genre painter : STEEN
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Eire symbols : SHAMROCKS
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Secular : LAIC
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Zones : AREAS
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Lift for the Montgolfiers : HOTAIR
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Masked old master? : ANONYMOUSBOSCH
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Confine : IMMURE
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Summit site: 1943 : TEHERAN
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Taker of SAT's : TESTEE
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Merged resources : POOLED
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Melampus and Mopsus : SEERS
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Practices extortion : BLEEDS
Down
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Fairy queen et al. : MABS
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With, in Wassy : AVEC
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German gentleman : HERR
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Neighbor of Calvados : ORNE
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In the dark : UNAWARE
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Peak : TOR
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Decant : REBOTTLE
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Lendl and Pavlov : IVANS
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City south of Leipzig : GERA
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Pizarro's pursuit : ORO
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Off. order : REQ
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Part of a ship's rigging : BACKSTAY
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City on the Douro : OPORTO
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Stromboli flow : LAVA
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Allowance after tare : TRET
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Former flyweight champ : ERNE
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Dahs' running mates : DITS
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Roly-poly : TUBBY
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European linden : TEIL
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Martin ___, U.S. politico : DIES
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Creator of Gil Blas : LESAGE
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Strayed Steinbeck vehicle : BUS
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Related to : AKIN
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Browning heroine : PIPPA
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Considering everything : INALL
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Brilliance : ECLAT
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Stylish subterfuges? : CHICANERIES
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Discernment : INSIGHT
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Ruth's in-law : NAOMI
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Midas touch? : GILTFEELING
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Town in N Finland : INARI
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Worn away : EATEN
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Actor Guttenberg : STEVE
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Wing : ALA
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Aphrodite favorite : ADONIS
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River in Umbria : NERA
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Rams' ma'ams : EWES
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Lifeless, old style : AMORT
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Conway and Holt : TIMS
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Country singer Haggard : MERLE
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Rx for bruises : ARNICA
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Faces : VISAGES
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Middle or high follower : ROAD
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Stopper : CORK
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Letter opener : DEAR
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Tramped a swamp : WADED
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White poplar : ABELE
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Big bites for bookworms : TOMES
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Make happy : ELATE
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Edwards or Lombardi : VINCE
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Where Saul met a witch : ENDOR
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Suspicious : LEERY
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Of a trunk in a trunk : AORTIC
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Org. playing the Doral : PGA
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Reflected : MIRRORED
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Some spreads : JAMS
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These might be mixed : EMOTIONS
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Actress Charlotte : RAE
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Poe's "___ Lee" : ANNABEL
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To write, to Pierre : ECRIRE
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Legalese for middle : MESNE
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Receipt for René : RECU
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Card game for three : SKAT
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Philippine island : SAMAR
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Packet, e.g. : SHIP
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"Ecce ___" : HOMO
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Air: Comb. form : ATMO
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Heavy hammer : MAUL
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Orpheus's instrument : LYRE
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Multiflora : ROSE
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Boiardo's patron : ESTE
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Made a hole-in-one : ACED
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"___ more to be pitied ... " : SHES
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Cries of surprise : OHS
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Word in genealogy : NEE
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Theologian's deg. : STB

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8 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 16 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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