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Alfio Micci
Alfio Micci

Placing the Music

New York Times, Sunday, August 27, 1972

5-Down : ___ for one's money

Author:
Alfio Micci
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 168, Blocks: 103, Avg Word Len: 5.07, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 612 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 130, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 18, Grid flow: 44.9
Alfio Micci has 91 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 11 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1972, The New York TimesNo. 8,415
Across
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Bragg and Ord: Abbr. : FTS
4
City in Shinar : BABEL
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Miss Farrow : MIA
12
Get lost! : SCRAM
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Food staple for some : PASTA
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Kind of theater : ARENA
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Up : ASTIR
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Fanon : ORALE
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Kind of clock : ALARM
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Sensational : LURID
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Cremona name : AMATI
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Hood of note : ROBIN
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Handel work : ISRAELINEGYPT
31
Meyerbeer work, at La Scala : LAFRICANA
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Crave : DESIRE
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Formosa Strait island : AMOY
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Instrument : CELLO
36
Mark on a proof : STET
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Spanish relatives : TIAS
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"___ in the Crowd" : AFACE
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Pines of Hawaii : IES
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Arnold : HAP
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Mayan god of rain : CHAC
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Hasty : SLAPDASH
49
Cordage fiber : IMBE
53
Shrub genus : ERICA
55
Incurred, as debts : RANUP
58
Curb : REIN
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Concurred : AGREED
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Highway to Fairbanks : ALCAN
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Small missile : GRENADE
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Greek letters : PIS
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Fortification : REDAN
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Crop anew : RETRIM
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Denizens : NATIVES
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Scruff : NAPE
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___ pet : INA
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Weight units: Abbr. : TNS
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Write Shute : NEVIL
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Ball team : NINE
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Inter ___ : ALIA
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Fool : ASS
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Turned out to be : PROVED
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Oblique : ASLANT
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Eastern name : ALI
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Nazimova : ALLA
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On one's toes : ATIP
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Getting on : AGING
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Miss Hogg : IMA
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Horse color : DUN
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Dance : REEL
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Louvre name : DAVINCI
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Showed boredom : YAWNED
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Play part : ACTII
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Toper : SOT
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Holdings : TENURES
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Well-known Indian : TONTO
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Spanish news medium : PRENSA
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Partner of stew : FRET
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Spanish month : ENERO
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Jugs : EWERS
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Sea bird : TERN
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Highway areas : DIVIDERS
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Farm sight : SILO
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Deer : ROE
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Full of: Suffix : OSE
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Numskull : IDIOT
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Choir's place : LOFT
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Rain check : STUB
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Hair job : RINSE
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Makes: Abbr. : MFRS
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Bent outward, as arms : AKIMBO
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Sibelius score : FINLANDIA
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Berlioz work : HAROLDINITALY
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Aquatic animal : OTTER
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Lands : ACRES
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Egg-shaped : OVOID
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Dinsmore : ELSIE
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Wagner's river : RHINE
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Strange : EERIE
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Rhythm, in Soho : METRE
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Garments : VESTS
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Mrs. Fitzgerald : ZELDA
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Reply: Abbr. : ANS
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Letters : ESSES
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Understand : SEE
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Disloyal : FALSE
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Ivan and Peter : TSARS
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Kind of jacket : STRAIT
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Indonesian island : BALI
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___ for one's money : ARUN
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Kentucky college : BEREA
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Elgar's variations : ENIGMA
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Evans and Reaves favorite : LADYOFSPAIN
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Egyptian goddess : MAAT
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Doctrine : ISM
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Part of a Dickens title : ATALE
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Plant clusters : SORI
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Nile critters : CROCS
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Clerical collar : RABAT
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MacMahon : ALINE
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Egyptian amulet : MENAT
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Receipt word : PAID
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Gershwin favorite : AMERICANINPARIS
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Rossini work, at Covent Garden : ITALIANINALGIERS
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Pillages : RIFLES
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Jacob's wife : LEAH
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Indian veranda : PYAL
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Asian grass : ROSHA
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Mushroom : CEPE
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Puppeteer : SARG
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Lurch : CAREEN
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Celery tidbit : HEART
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Author Michael : ARLEN
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Early Britons : PICTS
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Popular cornet solo : CARNIVALOFVENICE
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Party fare : DIP
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Anger : IRE
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Radio and TV : MEDIA
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Limas : BEANS
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Ferber and Millay : EDNAS
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Vehicle : CAR
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English hymn translator : NEALE
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European mole : UNT
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Mussorgski "Picture" : GREATGATEOFKIEV
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6th-century date : DVI
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East Indian tree : SALAI
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Blackbird : MERLE
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Black or Red : SEA
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Matted together : PINNY
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Rodents : VOLES
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Family member : DAD
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"Le ___ du Printemps" : SACRE
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Conform : ADAPT
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Money : LUCRE
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Bury : INTER
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Made lace : TATTED
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"___ Got a Secret" : IVE
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Respighi opus : PINESOFROME
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___ sanctum : INNER
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Paris subway : METRO
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Like ___ of salts : ADOSE
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Niger River mouth : NUN
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Cry of surprise : WOW
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Mermaid, for one : INN
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Numerical prefix : TRI
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Mar : SOIL
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Bedeck : ADORN
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Adams : EDIE
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Coral family : ISIDAE
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Terza ___ : RIMA
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Bank deal : LOAN
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Collections : TROVES
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Baron and duke, e.g. : TITLES
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Accented in music: Abbr. : SFORZ
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Church tax : TITHE
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Before : UNTIL
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Cooking direction : BLEND
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Grief, old style : SARRA
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Coin receivers : SLOTS
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En ___ : MASSE
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Good-king-henry : BLITE
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Court cry: Var. : OYES
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Tract : AREA
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Dwellings: Abbr. : HSES
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Extreme : DIRE
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Roman date : IDES
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German article : EIN

Answer summary:
14 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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