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Daubert
Daubert

New York Times, Wednesday, December 28, 1983

51-Across : Metrical foot

Author:
Daubert
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 31.0
Daubert has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,468
Across
1
Arab garments : ABAS
5
Mild curse : DRAT
9
Gold or silver : METAL
14
New flier's feat : SOLO
15
Apiece : EACH
16
Berlin's "All ___" : ALONE
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Bridge across the Hudson : TAPPANZEE
19
Broadway lights : NEONS
20
Repeat : ITERATE
21
Sea cow : MANATEE
23
Dry as dust : ARID
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Writing tool : PEN
25
Teatime fare : SCONES
28
Okla. Indian : CHEROKEE
33
"Off ___, into the wild ... " : WEGO
34
Whig's opposition : TORY
36
Mistake : ERROR
37
"From the east to western ___": Shak. : IND
38
Having a guilty feeling : ASHAMED
40
Midwest inst. : OSU
41
Strict : STERN
43
Citron covering : RIND
44
Cut : SNIP
45
Social insect : HONEYBEE
47
Aim : INTENT
49
Leather puncher's tool : AWL
50
At a distance : AFAR
51
Metrical foot : TROCHEE
55
Exhaust : TIREOUT
59
" ... Poker Flat" author : HARTE
60
Titmouse's cousin : CHICKADEE
62
Entire : UTTER
63
Swiss-cheese feature : HOLE
64
Place to bake bricks : KILN
65
Nodule of stone : GEODE
66
Chooses : OPTS
67
Snick's partner : SNEE
Down
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___ spumante : ASTI
2
Cutter, e.g. : BOAT
3
Mont Buet is one : ALPE
4
She's in the high C areas : SOPRANO
5
They repair canines : DENTISTS
6
Leveled : RAZED
7
Expert : ACE
8
Oates title : THEM
9
Well ___ (polite) : MANNERED
10
Wife of Henry II of England : ELEANOR
11
What gridiron zebras do : TOOT
12
Di's sister-in-law : ANNE
13
___-majesté : LESE
18
Swiss river : AARE
22
Murderer in the Rue Morgue : APE
25
Rustle : SWISH
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Literary patchwork : CENTO
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Locale of Pine View Dam : OGDEN
28
French chalk : CRAIE
29
Paean : HYMN
30
Norwegian currency : KRONE
31
Red dye : EOSIN
32
Burst : ERUPT
35
Czech river : OHRE
38
"___ I Wander," 1952 song : ANYWHERE
39
Imposing structures : EDIFICES
42
Took the bait : REACTED
44
Smears : STREAKS
46
Corn, in Cannes : BLE
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British stoolie : NARK
50
Inclined upward : ATILT
51
Hoodlum : THUG
52
Grade : RATE
53
"___ take arms ... ": Hamlet : ORTO
54
Nymph whose voice became immortal : ECHO
56
God of wisdom at Valhalla : ODIN
57
Ubangi feeder : UELE
58
Shoe size : TENE
61
Flight on a shuttle : HOP

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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