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Kevin Boyle
Kevin Boyle

New York Times, Saturday, October 28, 1989

39-Down : Dog trained to entice ducks

Author:
Kevin Boyle
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F J K Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Kevin Boyle has 32 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,599
Across
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Statutes : LAWS
5
Tibiae : SHINS
10
"Jaws" vessel : ORCA
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Et ___ (and others) : ALII
15
Cereal disease : ERGOT
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Smile expansively : BEAM
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With sincere dedication : SINGLEHEARTEDLY
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Suffragist Lucy : STONE
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Ideas proposed as demonstrable truths : THEOREMS
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Hand-over-hand swinger : APE
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Brace : TWO
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Equivoques; ambiguities: Fr. : DOUBLESENTENTES
35
Site of the Cyclopes' smithy : ETNA
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Of a breathless condition : APNEAL
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Edible tuber : OCA
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Call ___ (stop) : AHALT
40
Ottoman official : AGA
41
Ivanhoe, e.g. : SAXON
43
"Fiasco" author : LEM
44
Mulish : ORNERY
47
Like Hickok : WILD
48
Certain confederations : TRIPLEALLIANCES
51
Biographer Winslow : OLA
52
French designer's inits. : YSL
53
Scatter : DISPERSE
58
Siouan language : OSAGE
63
Cachinnation : HOMERICLAUGHTER
66
"A foolish thing was but ___": Shak. : ATOY
67
Kind of drip : NASAL
68
Gudrun's husband : ATLI
69
Situation, in Stuttgart : LAGE
70
Eminent : GREAT
71
Calliope, e.g. : MUSE
Down
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Girl for Lauder : LASS
2
Landed upon : ALIT
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Skid-Row resident : WINO
4
Indication : SIGN
5
Meet a bet : SEE
6
Brit. title of respect : HRH
7
"___ Around," 1964 Beach Boys hit : IGET
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Famed animal handler : NOAH
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___ di mano (Italian handshake) : STRETTA
10
Actress Merle : OBERON
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Counsel, old style : REDE
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Storm's predecessor : CALM
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Vanderbilt and Carter : AMYS
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Faith on the Firth of Forth : LEAL
19
Objects thrown in defeat : TOWELS
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Sweet or split chaser : PEA
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¿Donde esta Avila? : ESPANA
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Passed out : DEALT
27
Contrary : OTHER
28
Delaware Indian : UNAMI
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Palais social event : BAL
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German writer Johann Jakob ___ : ENGEL
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Almost : NEARLY
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Kind of waste : TOXIC
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Caen college : ECOLE
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"___ of Iwo Jima," 1949 film : SANDS
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Dog trained to entice ducks : TOLLER
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Bristle : AWN
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Bringing up baby : REARING
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Group living in SW China : YIS
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Faulkner's "embodiment of evil" character : POPEYE
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Sleep like ___ : ALOG
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Pigeon pea : DHAL
54
Theta's follower : IOTA
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L.A. problem : SMOG
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Raddle : SCAR
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Differently : ELSE
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Feign : SHAM
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N. Pacific island : ATTU
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Congeals : GELS
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Part of HOMES : ERIE
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Motorist's org. : AAA
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Max. : ULT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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