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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Thursday, October 28, 1982

53-Across : Vasco da ___

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 12, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 40.2
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,042
Across
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Fellow : CHAP
5
"___ mio" : OSOLE
10
"A ___, of golden daffodils" : HOST
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Hawaii's ___ Bowl : HULA
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Eucharistic plate : PATEN
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A. B. Giamatti is its president : YALE
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Algae product : AGAR
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Went over like ___ balloon : ALEAD
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Greek porch : STOA
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"Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1" : WHISTLERSMOTHER
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Galena and hematite : ORES
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Subdue : TAME
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Rubinstein and Rubinstein : PIANISTS
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Sea-horse rider : NEREID
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Spanish article : LOS
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Cheat, in a way : SCALP
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Simpleton : NINNY
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Echidna's diet : ANTS
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Lamb and Kazan : ELIAS
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Prolific auth. : ANON
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Michelangelo work : PIETA
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Yawl's cousin : KETCH
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___, deux, trois : UNE
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Vamooses : SCRAMS
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Makes less dense : RAREFIES
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Pro ___ : RATA
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Vasco da ___ : GAMA
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Uncle Sam's forerunner : BROTHERJONATHAN
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Hamilton, to G.W. : AIDE
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Relied on for support : LEANT
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Baltic island : AERO
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South African colonist : BOER
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Latin-American coin : MEDIO
66
Legal claim : LIEN
67
Japanese outcasts : ETAS
68
City on the Allegheny : OLEAN
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Gaelic : ERSE
Down
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Bit of 'baccy : CHAW
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Downs : HUGH
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Jai ___ : ALAI
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Weems : PARSON
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Shimmer with colors : OPALESCE
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Spiel or pitch : SALESTALK
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To take off, in Rouen : OTER
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Most insignificant : LEAST
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Minstrel-show joker : ENDMAN
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Uncontrollable emotion : HYSTERIA
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___ of allegiance : OATH
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Dark-colored plum : SLOE
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___ apart (rend) : TEAR
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Speaker of baseball : TRIS
22
Augury : OMEN
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Falls with a flat sound : PLAPS
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Column style : IONIC
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Garden plant : ASTER
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Foxier : SLIER
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Accidie : ENNUI
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___ ear and ... : INONE
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Units of force : DYNES
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Region in S.A. : PATAGONIA
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When they shoot, runners scoot : STARTERS
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A city or former governor of Pa. : SCRANTON
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Oriental servant : AMAH
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Blood: Comb. form : HEMA
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Sailors' patron : STELMO
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Femme ___ : FATALE
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Staggering : AREEL
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Paul Bunyan's blue ox : BABE
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Wild scene : RIOT
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Ancient theaters : ODEA
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Become weary : JADE
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Legatee : HEIR
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Mars, to Melanthus : ARES
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Word followed by such : NONE

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

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