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Whitten
Whitten

New York Times, Wednesday, November 23, 1983

Author:
Whitten
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 29.4
Whitten has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,433
Across
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"Take Her, ___ Mine," 1961 play : SHES
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Cartoonist Hulme : ETTA
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By ___ (from memory) : HEART
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Become weary : TIRE
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Close : NEAR
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Strange : EERIE
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Picnic game : EGGANDSPOONRACE
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One who fears: Suffix : PHOBE
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Punctuation mark : SEMICOLON
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Doctrine : ISM
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Saloon offering : ALE
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Hit hard : PASTE
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Noshed : ATE
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___ down (exhausted) : WORE
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Bundle : PARCEL
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Space-age alloy : ZIRCALOY
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Soothsayer : AUGUR
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French nobleman : DUC
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Suffix with opinion : ATIVE
38
Monastery : CLOISTER
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Allen and Lawrence : STEVES
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Orient : EAST
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Farewell! : AVE
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Homesteaders' boon: 1862 : ACRES
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To and ___ : FRO
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Weir : DAM
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Found : INSTITUTE
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Imparts : LENDS
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Nathaniel's protest: 1676 : BACONSREBELLION
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Representation : IMAGE
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School on the Thames : ETON
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Soup ingredient : OKRA
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Exclude : DEBAR
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Lairs : DENS
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A tide : NEAP
Down
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Chassé : STEP
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Lofty : HIGH
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"Tantum ___," hymn section : ERGO
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Hardtack : SEABISCUIT
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Terminate : END
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Hardy girl : TESS
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Record of a sort : TAPE
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Fragrant : AROMATIC
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Therefore : HENCE
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Architect Saarinen : EERO
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Inland sea in Russia : ARAL
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Carty of baseball : RICO
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Adolescent : TEEN
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Fledglings : NESTERS
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OPEC vessel : OILER
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Tormé or Ferrer : MEL
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Actress Prentiss : PAULA
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Peloponnesian city : ARGOS
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Sky blue : AZURE
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Seedy fruit : WATERMELON
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Word with drab or branch : OLIVE
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Wanders : ROVES
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"Hungry ___," Twitty hit : EYES
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Unit of length : PACE
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Angry bleacherite's sound : CATCALL
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Absorbed completely : DEVOURED
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Dessert items : TARTS
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Gloomy : SAD
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More elegant : FINER
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Footnote abbr. : IBID
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Title : NAME
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Strikebreaker : SCAB
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Robe of office : TOGA
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Author ___-Michel Kpomassie : TETE
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Black : EBON
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Goddess of victory : NIKE
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Copperfield's child-wife : DORA
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Break : SNAP
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U.S.N.A. product : ENS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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