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Nikki Tenfelde
Nikki Tenfelde

New York Times, Friday, October 3, 1980

5-Down : Paillette

Author:
Nikki Tenfelde
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { B J K Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Nikki Tenfelde has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,287
Across
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Consort : MATE
5
Barter : SWAP
9
Ruddy duck : SPRIG
14
Express : EMIT
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Unnatural desire to eat chalk, ashes, etc. : PICA
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"What is ___ is mine" : THINE
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Thought transference : TELEPATHY
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Figure on a quarter : EAGLE
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What spellbinders do : ENTRANCE
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Bogs; marshes : WASHES
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Close by : NIGH
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Board for Bruegel : PALETTE
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Bondman : THRALL
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Fissure : REFT
28
Eighth of a piece of eight : REAL
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He discovered Greenland : ERICTHERED
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Integument : ARIL
36
Self-love : EGO
37
President of France: 1954-59 : COTY
38
Joseph Smith was one : POLYGAMIST
42
Summon : CITE
43
Caustic : ACID
44
Machine in a textile plant : REELER
46
Adjective for Hawaii : SEAGIRT
50
Pet in "The Yearling" : FAWN
51
Jerusalem's Arch of ___ : PILATE
52
Forte of Crick, Watson and Wilkins : GENETICS
56
Law enforcer in old Rome : EDILE
57
Where Ichabod Crane presided : CLASSROOM
58
" ... ___ go to sea": Gilbert : NEVER
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Sherpa's bête noire : YETI
60
Dictator's phrase : INRE
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Mother Hubbard : DRESS
62
Balance : REST
63
Transfer : CEDE
Down
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Allot : METE
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Assent : AMEN
3
Incline : TILT
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For aeons and aeons and more : ETERNALLY
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Paillette : SPANGLE
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Beldam : WITCH
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Yearn : ACHE
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Dunner's imperative : PAY
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Cat burglar's sine qua non : STEALTH
10
Side : PHASE
11
Precise : RIGHT
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Passage to a culvert : INLET
13
Embdens, e.g. : GEESE
18
Relative of a pipkin : PAIL
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Bear along buoyantly : WAFT
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___ Bill, legendary cowboy : PECOS
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Light carriage : TRAP
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Paragon : HERO
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Mudhen : RAIL
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Obdurate : RIGID
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Pardon : REMIT
31
Unconventional person : ECCENTRIC
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Vex : ROIL
33
Mignon's follower : ETTE
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He wrote "Pulling Your Own Strings" : DYER
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High overshoes : GAITERS
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Important port in the Crusades : ACRE
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"Sic ___ gloria mundi" : TRANSIT
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Kids' mothers : EWES
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What sports do : SPEND
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Sea duck : EIDER
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Quick-witted : ALIVE
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Outbursts, as of laughter : GALES
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Herculean deeds : FEATS
52
Mirth : GLEE
53
Girl loved by Glaucus : IONE
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Ribbed fabric : CORD
55
Pintail duck : SMEE
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St.-___, seat of a military school : CYR

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

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