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Christy Ridley
Christy Ridley

New York Times, Friday, January 22, 1982

31-Across : As quick as ___

Author:
Christy Ridley
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { B J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 21.5
Christy Ridley has 54 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,763
Across
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Petty quarrel : SPAT
5
Mosque official : IMAM
9
Pack firmly : TAMP
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How it feels to win a pot : NICE
14
Trap : SNARE
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Medicinal plant : ALOE
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Poker-hand sequence, such as 4, 5, 6, 7 : OPENENDSTRAIGHT
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Westrum of baseball fame : WES
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Venus, to Virgil : DEITY
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Extra : SPARE
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Long hit : SWAT
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Compass pt. : ESE
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Poker-hand sequence, such as 9, 8, 6, 5 : INSIDESTRAIGHT
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As quick as ___ : ACAT
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What some gild : LILY
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Border : HEM
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Carillo and Durocher : LEOS
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This is often wild : DEUCE
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Concern : CARE
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Abner's partner : LUM
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Lineup in a supermarket : CANS
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Soon : ANON
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Poker game : SPITINTHEOCEAN
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Twilight : EVE
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"Once ___ a time ... " : UPON
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African pastoral people : MASAI
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Kitchen device : PARER
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Rage : FAD
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Poker players' options : DROPCALLORRAISE
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Recent: Comb. form : CENO
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Florida bay : TAMPA
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Eye part : UVEA
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Final : LAST
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Faulkner character : ANSE
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Duck or color : TEAL
Down
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January forecast in Buffalo : SNOW
2
Meerschaum : PIPE
3
Top pair, in poker : ACES
4
What a jack just beats : TEN
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Compose, as a poem or a story : INDITE
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Schooner pole : MAST
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Imitative of fine creations : ARTY
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Mal de ___ (seasickness) : MER
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Asian capital : TAIPEI
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Seaweed : ALGA
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African gazelle : MOHR
12
Folk singer Seeger : PETE
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Golfer Sam : SNEAD
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King after Hen. III : EDWI
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Score the ore : ASSAY
22
Fast jets : SSTS
23
Writer Gardner : ERLE
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Freeze over : ICEUP
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Mother-in-law of Ruth : NAOMI
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Aftermath of 1 Down : SLUSH
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Twitch : TIC
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Its capital is Accra : GHANA
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Wading bird : HERON
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Treasury agts. : TMEN
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"___ Well ... " : ALLS
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Scandinavian : DANE
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Suffix with persist : ENT
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Normandy town : CAEN
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Municipal : CIVIC
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Where to put Earl Grey : TEAPOT
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Grand Tour site : EUROPE
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"Nabucco" is one : OPERA
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Accurate: Abbr. : CORR
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1650, to Caesar : MDCL
49
Extent of surface : AREA
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"Fathers and ___": Turgenev : SONS
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Design : PLAN
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Tax-deduction items : ALMS
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"___ Card Stud," 1968 film : FIVE
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Where Magellan was: 1519–21 : ASEA
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Loser's impatient command : DEAL
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One ___ time : ATA
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Self: Comb. form : AUT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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