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Alfio Micci
Alfio Micci

Verbal Hi-Jinks

New York Times, Sunday, November 16, 1980

Author:
Alfio Micci
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 142, Blocks: 81, Avg Word Len: 5.07, Missing: { J K X Z }, Scrabble score: 531 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 122, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10, Grid flow: 13.8
Alfio Micci has 91 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 11 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,331
Across
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Mar : DEFACE
7
Complain : REPINE
13
Drains : SAPS
17
___ and excursions : ALARUMS
19
Was fearful : COWERED
20
Oregon, for one : TRAIL
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24
Reindeer, to René : RENNE
25
Irish patriot : EMMET
26
Plural ending : IES
27
Reply: Abbr. : ANS
28
Worked on socks : MENDED
29
"___ Fideles" : ADESTE
32
Mystery writer Josephine : TEY
33
Algonquian : OTTAWA
34
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Bow : ARC
40
Roofed passageway : ARCADE
41
Full of fury : IRED
42
Brilliantly colored fish : OPAH
43
Belfry denizen : BAT
46
Shows pleasure : GRINS
47
An old ruse: Colloq. : CONNU
48
Argillaceous rock : SHALE
49
Christian or Roman : ERA
50
Roof feature : EAVE
51
Proscribes : BANS
52
DE DE AL AL : SQUAREDEALS
55
Scuttle : HOD
56
Royal family of Scotland : STUART
57
Double quartet : OCTET
58
Lose : MISLAY
62
Sound of laughter : HAH
64
Actress Balin : INA
65
Flammable hydrocarbon : BUTANE
66
Foreigner : ALIEN
67
Taproom : SALOON
69
Crude abode : HUT
70
AP ES : COREDAPPLES
72
French wives: Abbr. : MMES
74
Terminate : STOP
78
"___ Alone": Romberg : ONE
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Rudimentary seed : OVULE
80
Robin of balladry : ADAIR
82
"The Wreck of the Mary ___" : DEARE
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Palindromic name : NAN
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In a high degree : VERY
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Procure or secure : GAIN
86
Liquified by heat : MOLTEN
87
Beautician Westmore : ERN
88
1,000,1,000 : ONEINAMILLION
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Takes the helm : STEERS
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Actress Tanguay : EVA
96
Maroon : STRAND
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Decanter : CARAFE
98
Linguist Mario A. ___ : PEI
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Agcy. succeeded by N.R.C. : AEC
100
Peep show : RAREE
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Stradivari's teacher : AMATI
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Chief ingredient : BASIS
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Annexed : ADDEDON
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Bring to a total : SUMMATE
113
Torn : RENT
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Crystal-lined rocks : GEODES
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Compound similar to another : ISOMER
Down
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Boy-meets-girl event : DATE
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Cle ___, city in Washington : ELUM
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Old MacDonald had one : FARM
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Composer of "Comus" : ARNE
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Desserts : CUSTARDS
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Ostrich's cousin : EMU
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Serling or Steiger : ROD
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Ram's dam : EWE
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Footed: Comb. form : PEDATI
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Mangle user : IRONER
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Given to gossip : NEWSY
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Bulldog or final: Abbr. : EDN
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O U T : STRETCHEDOUT
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Common contraction : ARENT
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Zoo attraction : PANDA
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Tendon : SINEW
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Triple agents : SPIES
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Artificial reservoirs : CISTERNS
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Mother of Helen of Troy : LEDA
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Part of a seminar : SESSION
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Esprit de corps : MORALE
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Sandra or Ruby : DEE
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Site of Sagan's dragons : EDEN
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Target for Trottier : CAGE
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Odd, in Scotland : ORRA
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Year in the reign of Henry IV : MCIV
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Oriel part : PANE
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Scorched : ADUST
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Separated : APART
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Flicka's creator : OHARA
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Blessed Roman Catholic woman : BEATA
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"Stormy Weather" composer : ARLEN
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Discernment : TASTE
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Bounder : CAD
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___ pan (Chinese abacus) : SUAN
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Dandiprat : BOY
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One of the Dionnes, for short : QUIN
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Outside: Comb. form : ECT
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APPLAUSE : HANDOVERFIST
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Cordwainer's creation : SHOE
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City in Georgia : MACON
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One of the Masseys : ILONA
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Enchantress : SIREN
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The quiet side : LEE
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By chance : HAPLY
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Everyone, in Essen : ALLE
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Charabanc : BUS
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Reject : SPURN
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Orange or Indian : OSAGE
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Part of H.R.H., sometimes : HER
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Disinclined : AVERSE
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Aver : MAINTAIN
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Sofia sight : MINARET
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Order to a broker : SELL
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Actor Jacques : TATI
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Mountain: Comb. form : OREO
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Robert ___ Warren : PENN
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Speaker's milieu : DAIS
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Becalmed state : DOLDRUMS
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Andy Gump's wife : MIN
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Exaggerate : OVERDO
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Did carpentry : NAILED
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Jet speed units : MACHS
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Picket-line crosser : SCAB
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Devonshire river : TAMAR
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Expunge : ERASE
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Dine at home : EATIN
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Horatian verse form : EPODE
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Prefix for sphere or meter : ATMO
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Paper quantity : REAM
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Being, in Barcelona : ENTE
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Large German dam : EDER
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Joker : WAG
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H.S.T.'s successor : DDE
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Certain servicemen: Abbr. : WOS
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French assent : OUI

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5 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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