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Louis Baron
Louis Baron

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New York Times, Sunday, October 18, 1981

Author:
Louis Baron
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 136, Blocks: 74, Avg Word Len: 5.40, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 528 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 123, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 15, Grid flow: 40.8
Louis Baron has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,667
Across
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Gershwin's "___ Again" : DOIT
5
Pleasant : BLAND
10
___-Magnon : CRO
13
Aussie leapers : ROOS
17
Frances of opera : ALDA
18
Ouida's real name : RAMEE
19
Mount where Aaron died : HOR
20
Cab for Holmes : HANSOM
22
"Feel I Pretty" : FEELOUTOFPLACE
25
Menotti heroine : AMELIA
26
Was merciful : TOOKPITY
27
"Thanks for the" : LOSSOFMEMORY
29
Temple, in poesy : FANE
30
Record : TAPE
31
Mona's follower : LISA
32
Soviet cooperative : ARTEL
35
Party shunners : LONERS
37
Tool : UTENSIL
41
"Man bites dog" : NEWS
42
Ohiowa : UNITEDSTATES
45
Pisa-to-Verona dir. : NNE
46
Ravel's "Gaspard de la ___" : NUIT
47
Hunter's blind : BOMA
48
Belligerent god : ARES
49
Trite theatrics : CORN
50
Connections : INS
51
Bert Bert : DOUBLEPARKS
55
Prepared cords : SAWED
56
Old hands : VETERANS
58
Clods : LOUTS
59
Potter's debris : SHARDS
60
Mid-Q.E.D. : ERAT
61
Nasty remarks : SLURS
62
Apple, e.g. : POME
63
Obscures : BEDIMS
65
"Maria ___," 1933 song : ELENA
66
Type of headline : STREAMER
70
Egyptian dancing girls : ALMAS
71
Pekolong : BLENDEDTEAS
73
Chemical prefix : OXO
74
Curb : REIN
75
River to the Trent : OUSE
76
___ Blair (George Orwell) : ERIC
77
O, e.g. : OVAL
78
All: Comb. form : OMN
79
Hotmacs : UPSETSTOMACH
83
Ovidian "ciao" : VALE
84
Spiders' nests : NIDUSES
86
Common to many : SHARED
87
Furrier's pile : PELTS
88
"Clair de ___" : LUNE
89
Upshots : ENDS
90
Pteroid : ALAR
92
Taset : ALTEREDSTATE
97
Mini-bombs : GRENADES
101
Paying guest : ROOMER
102
hsilgnE : REVERSEENGLISH
104
Some choppers : MOLARS
105
Item on a fasces : AXE
106
Kin of adagio : LENTO
107
Byway : LANE
108
Mozart's "Coronation ___" : MASS
109
42d and 34th : STS
110
"The Yellow Flag" novelist : YATES
111
Monoski or luge : SLED
Down
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Dotty : DAFT
2
TV backdrop : OLEO
3
Thought: Comb. form : IDEO
4
Gab session : TALKFEST
5
Bobby Orr, once : BRUIN
6
Milk, in Milano : LATTE
7
Island in Taiwan Strait : AMOY
8
Collector's clock : NEF
9
Leave an SST : DEPLANE
10
Keystone Kops, usually : CHASERS
11
Army missiles : ROCS
12
Mountain: Comb. form : OREO
13
V.I.P. at Karnak : RAMESES
14
Kind of band or show : ONEMAN
15
Christiania today : OSLO
16
When René dines : SOIR
20
Berbers et al. : HAMITES
21
Dogwood time in N.Y. : MAY
23
Girasol : OPAL
24
Most of galloped : LOPED
28
John Galway's collection : FLUTES
30
Come to : TOTAL
32
Big day for Mr. & Mrs. : ANNIV
33
What grads may do : REUNE
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35
Arms or wings : LIMBS
36
Jolts : STARTS
38
"White and the Seven Dwarfs" : SNOWREMOVAL
39
"The Lady ___," 1935 song : INRED
40
Imparts : LENDS
42
Corvettes' targets : UBOATS
43
Parsing word : NOUN
44
Enclosures in synagogues : ARKS
49
S. African fox : CAAMA
51
Small amounts : DRAMS
52
Glasgow or Terry : ELLEN
53
Use a pestle : POUND
54
Vibes' kin : AURAE
55
Pumps : SHOES
57
Devonian division : ERIAN
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Strauss's "Also ___ Zarathustra" : SPRACH
61
Showers icily : SLEETS
63
Ochs, in "Der Rosenkavalier" : BARON
64
Medicinal resin : ELEMI
65
Or follower : ELSE
66
Stern fiddle : STRAD
67
Nose ornament of India : TEIC
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Apotheosize : EXALT
69
Offices : ROLES
71
Osculated on a vehicle? : BUSSED
72
Greek communes : DEMES
75
Pair of jacks, often : OPENERS
77
Shop wear : OVERALLS
79
Vigorish collectors : USURERS
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"Bringing in the ___" : SHEAVES
81
Soeur de mon père : TANTE
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Practicing eutaxy : ORDERLY
85
Groups of Moslem scholars : ULEMAS
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Throe : PANG
90
Virtue : ARETE
91
Marquisettes : LENOS
92
Brachium's locale : ARM
93
Heddle's place : LOOM
94
"Welcome ___," Altman film : TOLA
95
Mex. matrons : SRAS
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Quote source : TEXT
97
Dapper chap : GENT
98
Call : DIAL
99
One freer than a theow : ESNE
100
Storage place : SHED
103
Coral or Arafura : SEA

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10 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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