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Fletcher Coates
Fletcher Coates

New York Times, Friday, January 21, 1977

Author:
F. Coates
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.72, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 300 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 11, XRef: 2, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 21.8
Fletcher Coates has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
F. Coates is an alias for Fletcher Coates.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,023
Across
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Prepare prunes : STEW
5
Get off a quip, with 10 Across : CRACK
10
See 5 Across : WISE
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Rumanian city : IASI
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Attention-getting cry : HOLLO
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Old Greek coin : OBOL
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Lets a person in on : PUTSSOMEONEWISE
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Church part : STEEPLE
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Bret Harte's Ah ___ : SIN
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Deer : DOE
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Recent: Prefix : NEO
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Sired : BEGAT
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Stunt-flier's need : CHUTE
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Old-timer, for short : VET
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Dough : MOOLA
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Chaney : LON
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Trygve ___ : LIE
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Pretends : LETSON
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Very discerning : ASWISEASSOLOMON
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Covered with thatches : REEDED
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The reason ___ : WHY
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Ibsen woman : ASE
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___ Ababa : ADDIS
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Howl : BAY
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Airs : TUNES
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Flower part : CALYX
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Bernstein, to friends : LEN
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Electrical unit : OHM
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College degrees : MAS
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Catch on to : GETWISE
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Act the smart alec : BEAWEISENHEIMER
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Wild time : ORGY
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Morris or electric : CHAIR
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Told all to the cops : SANG
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Lake or port : ERIE
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Some Belgrade people : SERBS
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Tag and loose : ENDS
Down
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Samples : SIPS
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Not slack : TAUT
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Italian family : ESTE
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Bison of Europe : WISENT
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Indian of S.A. : CHOLO
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Hilly city : ROME
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Bar order : ALE
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Skeleton's place : CLOSET
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German novelist : KONIG
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Cry of surprise : WOW
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Footnote abbr. : IBID
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Average : SOSO
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Robt. ___ : ELEE
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Graf ___ : SPEE
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Fancy paint : ENAMEL
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Candle material : BEESWAX
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In ___ (entirely) : TOTO
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Barton or Bow : CLARA
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Watered : HOSED
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Like singles : UNWED
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___ Veneto : VIA
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Founder of Ottoman dynasty : OSMAN
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Fast's partner : LOOSE
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Bancroft and Boleyn : ANNES
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Showed the way : LED
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Myrna : LOY
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Of a psyche part : IDIC
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Open ___ : SESAME
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Short of : SHY
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Shelley's middle name : BYSSHE
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French head : TETE
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Rash : UNWISE
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Non-clergy people : LAICS
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Glass ovens : LEHRS
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Instrument : OBOE
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Frau's husband : HERR
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Bethlehem visitors : MAGI
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Ready, in Scotland : GNIB
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"___ old cowhand" : IMAN
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Enrapture, in a way : SEND
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Work units : ERGS
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Letter : WYE
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Tin ___ : EAR

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

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