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Copps
Copps

New York Times, Thursday, November 15, 1979

52-Down : Swarm

Author:
Copps
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F J P Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 12, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has duplicate clues.
Copps has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,964
Across
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Sicilian scorcher : ETNA
5
English dramatist: 1814-84 : READE
10
Park of the Bruins : BRAD
14
Aphrodite's boy : EROS
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Clothe : ENDUE
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___ Stevens (Barbara Stanwyck) : RUBY
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"The Adventure of the ___" : REDHEADEDLEAGUE
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Structure strengthening a ship : KEELSON
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Ravens' havens : NESTS
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Do lawn work : MOW
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Beachwear : BRAS
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Aide to 45 Across : WATSON
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Skelton role : CLEM
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Play section : ACT
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Kind of phobia : ACRO
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Great cathedral in Florence : DUOMO
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"Blue Eagle" measure : NRA
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"The Adventure of ___" : THEBERYLCORONET
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Foulard : TIE
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Symbols of hardness : NAILS
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"___ Camera" : IAMA
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Puget or Hobe: Abbr. : SND
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Wee : TINY
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Doyle's hawkshaw : HOLMES
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Phone : RING
48
Word with port or barn : CAR
49
Follower of Zeno : STOIC
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Adjective for Chicago's Sears Tower : TALLEST
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"The Adventure of ___" : THEVEILEDLODGER
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Pavarotti forte : ARIA
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Sovereign; lord : LIEGE
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"___ boy!" : ITSA
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China-shop nemesis : BULL
64
British tar : LIMEY
65
Being : ESSE
Down
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Poetic contraction : EER
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"Star ___" : TREK
3
Entanglement : NODE
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Tennis great : ASHE
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Paine's "The Age of ___" : REASON
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Furnish, as income : ENDOW
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Mideast gulf : ADEN
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Lemon : DUD
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Lamprey's relative : EEL
10
"Sweet Afton" hillsides : BRAES
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Afghan exports : RUGS
12
Touch at one end : ABUT
13
Recolors : DYES
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Sailors' saint : ELMO
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Inflame with love : ENAMOR
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Influential alliances : BLOCS
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San ___, Italian resort : REMO
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Noted hymnist : WATTS
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"Body all ___ an' ... " : ACHIN
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Cornered : TREED
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Kind of sister or story : SOB
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Cheat; deceive : CULLY
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Part of Vietnam : ANNAM
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Coffee enhancer, in Paris : CREME
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British farewells : TATAS
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"I am ___, Egypt ... ": Shak. : DYING
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Do Satan's work : ENTICE
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It's sent by Jupiter Pluvius : RAIN
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Troubled water's smoother : OIL
45
Comet man : HALLEY
46
Base of a column : ORLO
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Competitor : RIVAL
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Sponge : CADGE
49
Casual attempt : STAB
50
New York way : THRU
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Eye: Fr. : OEIL
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Swarm : TEEM
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Ernie's widow : EDIE
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Noncoms : SGTS
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A D'Urberville lass : TESS
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Ailing : ILL
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Cicero's 52 : LII
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Charlotte ___, TV actress : RAE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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