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Christy Ridley
Christy Ridley

New York Times, Thursday, February 28, 1985

53-Down : Commune in NW Spain

Author:
Christy Ridley
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { G J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 24.4
Christy Ridley has 54 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,896
Across
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Picot feature : LOOP
5
Chair-back piece : SPLAT
10
"I lift my ___ ... ": Lazarus : LAMP
14
Tropical dog : ALCO
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Inquiry : PROBE
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Winged : ALAR
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Is right on the mark : HITSTHEBULLSEYE
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Down Under beast : ROO
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Button in a laundry : RESET
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Test : ASSAY
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Agora : MART
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March 15 in Milano : IDI
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Biblical passage for a camel : THEEYEOFANEEDLE
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Great amount : REAMS
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London's "The ___ Heel" : IRON
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Norse healer : EIR
36
Kind of saxophone : ALTO
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Bedeck : ADORN
39
Prickly pear : TUNA
40
Prevail : WIN
41
Circuit : TOUR
42
Factions : SECTS
43
Show confidence : LOOKONEINTHEEYE
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Native: Suffix : ITE
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Banshee's bailiwick : ERIN
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Blue planet : EARTH
52
Pooped : ALLIN
54
Adherent : IST
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Campus org. : ROTC
61
Peerce was one : TENOR
62
Observe : VIEW
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Home of the Jazz : UTAH
64
Husks of grains of wheat, etc. : BRANS
65
Discover : ESPY
Down
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A memorable Bert : LAHR
2
Hodgepodge : OLIO
3
Eight: Comb. form : OCTO
4
Opposite of neg. : POS
5
Orb : SPHERE
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Quickly : PRESTO
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Place for a pendant : LOBE
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Border on : ABUT
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Distant: Comb. form : TEL
10
Knight creation : LASSIE
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Midi city : ALES
12
Uxmal aborigine : MAYA
13
Mouse, to a skunk : PREY
18
Receptacles : TRAYS
19
Burdened : LADEN
23
Exec's reminder : MEMO
24
Party to : INON
25
Large conical net : TRAWL
26
Garden flower, for short : HELIO
27
" ... could ___ fat" : EATNO
28
Flowers, in Firenze : FIORI
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Abbr. at O'Hare : ARR
30
Wild card, sometimes : DEUCE
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Full of fuzz : LINTY
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Delete : ERASE
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First-rate : AONE
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Rightful : DUE
39
Youth : TEEN
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Woolf's "___ Lighthouse" : TOTHE
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Glistening : SHINY
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Showy, shallow art : KITSCH
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Trafalgar Square statue : NELSON
46
Judges : TRIERS
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Grayish yellow : ECRU
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Much : ALOT
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Roll; list : ROTA
52
Male ant : ANER
53
Commune in NW Spain : LENA
54
Egyptian goddess of fertility : ISIS
55
Pace : STEP
56
Like flax : TOWY
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N.Y.C. gambling initials : OTB
59
Vigil : EVE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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