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Mary Virginia Orna
Mary Virginia Orna

New York Times, Friday, December 28, 1979

Author:
Mary Virginia Orna
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 25.0
Mary Virginia Orna has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 11,007
Across
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Hot : EAGER
6
Turner in a saw : WORM
10
Strategy : PLAN
14
Breadth : SCOPE
15
Kind of hemp : ALOE
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Interior decorator's word : REDO
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Spotted : ESPIED
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Pine cone, e.g. : STROBILE
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Remnants : ENDS
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Nobelist Joliot-Curie : IRENE
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License plate : TAG
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Part of pewter : TIN
29
Gratified : FED
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Eastern bigwig : AMIR
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Caesar's erstwhile partner : COCA
34
Composer Copland : AARON
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"___ Calls It Murder": Gardner : THEDA
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Egress or ingress : DOOR
44
Interlaken's river : AARE
45
Documents: Abbr. : MSS
47
Corduroy unit : RIB
49
Mournful : SAD
50
Ovine sound : BLEAT
53
Flatfish : SOLE
55
Most delicate : FRAILEST
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One of Mrs. Browning's poems : SONNET
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Range unit : ACRE
65
Suffix with argo or cosmo : NAUT
66
Profound sleep : SOPOR
67
Approach : NEAR
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Stretches, with "out" : EKES
69
Remove completely : ERASE
Down
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Being : ESSE
2
"J.B." units : ACTS
3
Sticky stuff : GOOP
4
Ann Landers, to her folks : EPPIE
5
Evangelist's advice : REPENT
6
Crimean ___: 1853–56 : WAR
7
Ransom Eli ___ : OLDS
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Ginseng or ginger, e.g. : ROOT
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Like ye olde England : MERRIE
10
Test : PROBE
11
Vladimir Ulyanov : LENIN
12
An Astaire : ADELE
13
Durante's schnozzola : NOSE
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Pusher's prey : ADDICT
19
James ___ (Fibber McGee) : JORDAN
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Hairnets : SNOODS
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Delicacy : TACT
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Oriental nurse : AMAH
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Slack : GIVE
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Is partial to : FAVORS
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Word with grouse or grouper : RED
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___-Magnon : CRO
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College town of Ohio or Oklahoma : ADA
36
Certain rugs : RYAS
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Gumbo ingredient : OKRA
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"O, reason not the ___!" : NEED
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Enchilada relative : TAMALE
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Like a song by Puccini : ARIOSO
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"Tristram Shandy" author : STERNE
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Soyer's "Girl in a White ___" : BLOUSE
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Pair : BRACE
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Petrarch's love : LAURA
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Down : EIDER
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Biblical witching place : ENDOR
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Large open pie : FLAN
56
Steep : SOAK
57
Plumb : TRUE
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Malay palm : NIPA
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Slaughter : ENOS
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Lose interest : TIRE
63
Alts. : HTS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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