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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Friday, February 5, 1993

42-Down : "The little dog ___"

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.14, Missing: { F J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 308 (avg 1.66)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 3, XRef: 2, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,795
Across
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Emulates Clotho : SPINS
6
Preachy pamphlet : TRACT
11
Parsonage personage : CLERIC
12
Minsk moolah : RUBLES
14
Dutch painter: 1450?-1516 : HIERONYMUSBOSCH
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Crackerjack : ACE
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Written reminder : NOTE
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S.C. river : SANTEE
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Powerful sharks : MAKOS
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Phobia provokers: Abbr. : HTS
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Start of a Mozart title : EINE
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Returning tide? : EDIT
26
Thrown for a loss : BEATEN
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A "Deliverance" co-star of Burt : NED
30
Scale run : LATIDO
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Manila machete : BOLO
33
Wartime Joes : GIS
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The paintings of 14 Across are full of this : SYMBOLISM
37
Hector, once : PUP
40
Old Testament shepherd : ABEL
41
Winker's apparatus : EYELID
45
Finial : EPI
46
Contradiction : DENIAL
48
Mens ___ (sound mind) : SANA
49
In the sack : ABED
51
Sounds from Dagwood : ZZZ
52
___ Ste. Marie : SAULT
53
Cherry red : CERISE
56
Impress sharply : ETCH
58
A word from the Beav : GEE
59
Things in 14 Across's triptych garden : EARTHLYDELIGHTS
62
Amounts to : TOTALS
63
Teeth trouble : CARIES
64
Post-shower wraparound : TOWEL
65
Shell out : SPEND
Down
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Describing Burns's mouse : SLEEKIT
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For each : PER
3
Dungeon equipment : IRONS
4
Composer Rota : NINO
5
It cuts a wide swath : SCYTHE
6
Broadway hit about Capote : TRU
7
Crooner Columbo : RUSS
8
Swedish rock group : ABBA
9
Exact replica : CLONE
10
Lab activity : TESTING
11
Summer singer : CICADA
13
Act opener : SCENEI
14
Veronica of "Hill Street Blues" : HAMEL
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Built up and destroyed protoplasm : METABOLIZED
16
Listens to : HEEDS
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Mayberry jail habitué : OTIS
23
A convertiplane : STOL
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Ice-cream treat : BOMBE
27
Eero Saarinen's father : ELIEL
28
Meddlesome : NOSY
31
Pair : DYAD
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Automotive pioneer : BENZ
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Pancho's table : MESA
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"Shalom" : PEACE
38
Optimistic : UPBEAT
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Pantomime character : PIERROT
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"The little dog ___" : LAUGHED
43
Narrows : INLETS
44
Appointments : DATES
47
Cacao beans were their wampum : AZTECS
50
Likewise : DITTO
52
English county : SHIRE
54
Eliza's creator : SHAW
55
That Gallic girl : ELLE
57
Weather report? : CLAP
60
Monogram of a designer : YSL
61
Two-handed card game : GIN

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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