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Harold B. Counts
Harold B. Counts

New York Times, Saturday, December 12, 1987

Author:
Harold B. Counts
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J K X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 14.1
Harold B. Counts has 24 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,913
Across
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Inge canine : SHEBA
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Republic in SE Asia : LAOS
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Request to Gabriel : BLOW
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Greek island, famed for marble : PAROS
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Peruvian tenor Luigi ___ : ALVA
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Queen City favorite : ROSE
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This has an arrow : 1WAYSTREET
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Piece for Price : ARIA
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Explosive : TNT
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Large sea duck : EIDER
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Album jacket : LINER
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Czech critic Novák : ARNE
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Al Davis's eleven : RAIDERS
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These may be X-rated : 4LETTERWORDS
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Merchandise : WARES
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Dec. 13, e.g. : IDES
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12½ cents : BIT
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Tip or top : ACME
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Puzzled : ATSEA
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Noyes play : RADA
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Indeed! : YEA
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Baseball's Tommy : AGEE
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Kitchen gadget : CORER
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Waltz beat : 3QUARTERTIME
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Strove to gain : PURSUED
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Vous ___ : ETES
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Evergreen shrub : ERICA
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Quiet down : ABATE
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"Fat farm" : SPA
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Bullets, etc. : AMMO
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Document used in banking : 2NAMEPAPER
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Recliner : LIER
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Israeli seaport : ACRE
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Lift in spirits : ELATE
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Pacify : EASE
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Fix : MEND
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Practices that can't be wrong : RITES
Down
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Rotisserie item : SPIT
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A "Cactus Flower" star : HAWN
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He was: Lat. : ERAT
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George preceder : BOY
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States : ASSERTS
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Provisions : LARDER
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Sheltered on the Red : ALEE
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Annulled : OVERRODE
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Verbum ___ sapienti : SAT
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Weaves : BRAIDS
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Actor Greene : LORNE
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A salix : OSIER
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Takes a toll : WEARS
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Pointed part : TINE
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Pupils' covers : LIDS
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Man attachment? : ATEE
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Gazetteer item : AREA
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Kind of tie, in sports : 4WAY
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Alençon, e.g. : LACE
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Writer Calderon : ERMA
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Not so dumb : WISER
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Seaport in SE Italy : BARI
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Ditto, in footnotes : IDEM
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Vetch : TARE
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"The ___ of the skeleton": T.S.E. : AGUE
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Late afternoon event : TEADANCE
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Molders : ROTS
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Greenish blue : AQUA
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Plant or bird : CREEPER
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Sixty : 3SCORE
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___ up (joined together) : TEAMED
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Major follower : ETTE
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G.W. painter : PEALE
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Zoroaster's reputed birthplace : URMIA
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Verses, to Coleridge : RIMES
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Kind of dance : BARN
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Tiff : SPAT
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First name of 16 Across : PETE
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Rooter for Hector : ARES
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Wee hour : 2AM
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"Rope-a-dope" exponent : ALI

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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