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Alfio Micci
Alfio Micci

Have a Heart, Lover!

New York Times, Sunday, February 9, 1986

Author:
Alfio Micci
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 72, Avg Word Len: 5.27, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 542 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 133, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 38.6
Alfio Micci has 91 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 11 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,242
Across
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Overalls fabric : DENIM
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Glowing : RADIANT
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Calif.'s Mount ___ : SHASTA
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Omni and Spectrum : ARENAS
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Nemesis : AVENGER
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Star of "Bombshell" : HARLOW
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Start of a four-line verse : ISENTMYWIFEAVALENTINE
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Subbed for Mehta : LED
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Shake a leg : HIE
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Tasso's patron : ESTE
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Brain-wave reading, for short : EEG
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First word of "Home, Sweet Home" : MID
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Onions' kin : LEEKS
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Goose genus : ANSER
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"The Conning Tower" author's initials : FPA
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Pied followers : ATERRE
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Fools : ASSES
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Cooking direction : STIR
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Moo : LOW
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Yegg's target : SAFE
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Greek wine flask : OLPE
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He gave us a lift : OTIS
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A Turner : TINA
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Second line of verse : THISCARDISNICESHESAID
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Aurora, to Aeschylus : EOS
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Fiddle's ancestor : REBEC
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Lifeless : INERT
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Kind of corporal : LANCE
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Mixture of sodium salts : REH
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First place : EDEN
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E. Power Biggs played it : ORGAN
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Hid behind words : HEDGED
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United : ONED
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He played Fogg : NIVEN
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Emulate an expectant father : PACE
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Royal headwear : TIARAS
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Kind of eclipse : SOLAR
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Boundless : VAST
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D.C. thoroughfare : PST
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4-F : UNFIT
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"The Age of Anxiety" author : AUDEN
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Kind of kiss : MOTTO
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NBC's parent : RCA
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Third line of verse : BUTBEADEARANOTHERYEAR
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Culture for some viruses : BREI
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Blackbird : MERL
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Fronton calls : OLES
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These can be smoked : EELS
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Saw or law ender : YER
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Campaigners, for short : POLS
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Series of eight : OCTAD
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Shrimp dish : SCAMPI
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Psychic Geller : URI
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More competent : ABLER
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Twenty: Comb. form : ICOSI
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Vital juice : SAP
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Lacrosse team : TEN
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Tell all : BLAB
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Family room : DEN
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Once called : NEE
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End of verse : WHYNOTADIAMONDINSTEAD
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Diacritical mark : UMLAUT
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Pa. city : ALTOONA
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___ deaf ear to (ignores) : TURNSA
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"___ Me," 1929 song : MEANTO
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Was a salesperson : CLERKED
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Gershwin's "___ Eat Cake" : LETEM
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___ Eireann : DAIL
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Gaelic : ERSE
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Stopover : INN
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Cotton or Increase : MATHER
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Crude : RAW
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Prefix for fauna or culture : AVI
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Justifications : DEFENSES
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Actually existing : INESSE
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Marbles : AGATES
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"___ on Sunday," 1960 film : NEVER
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"Amor ___ nemici," Ariosti opera : TRA
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Bashful : SHEEPISH
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Airfield sight : HANGAR
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Helen Frankenthaler's forte : ART
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Pickens : SLIM
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Writer Morrison : TONI
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In wonder : AWED
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Nickleby's protégé : SMIKE
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Toady's word : YES
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Radical : LEFTIST
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"___ Tu," 1932 song : ERES
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Meat jelly : ASPIC
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Late bloomer : ASTER
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Western resort : TAHOE
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Standish's stand-in : ALDEN
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Isaac of fiddledom : STERN
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Old Chinese weight unit : LIANG
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In reserve : ONICE
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Used hip boots : WADED
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Encircled : ORBED
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The bounding main : OCEAN
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Hebrew letter : TSADE
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Scalloped : CRENATE
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Mosquito : AEDES
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Felicitous state : NIRVANA
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Actress Stevens : INGER
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Member of a certain college : ELECTOR
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Cargo vessel : OILER
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Dispatch : HASTE
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African antelope : ORIBI
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Knotty : NODAL
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They often cross : PATHS
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Roly-poly : TUBBY
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Harden : INURE
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Miller's "___ the Fall" : AFTER
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Plaintiffs : SUERS
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Went to the polls : VOTED
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Outstanding : PREEMINENT
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Sell hot tickets : SCALP
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Ankles : TARSI
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Soprano Patti : ADELINA
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Grinder : MOLAR
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A cupid, in Italian paintings : AMORETTO
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Schoolbag item : NOTEBOOK
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Affirmatives : YEAS
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Annoyed : PUTOUT
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One dedicated to the religious life : OBLATE
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Din : CLAMOR
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Bloodhound's forte : SCENT
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Menotti's "The ___" : CONSUL
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"___ of Divorcement" (Hepburn's first film) : ABILL
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March 15, in Italy : IDI
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Natatory word : SWUM
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"O, woe!" : AHME
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Brain opening : PYLA
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Facilitate : EASE
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Dutch treat : EDAM
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Singer Merriman : NAN
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Patriotic org. : DAC
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Pisa-to-Verona dir. : NNE
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June honoree : DAD
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Uno plus due : TRE

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