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Virginia L. Yates
Virginia L. Yates

New York Times, Tuesday, March 12, 1991

Author:
Virginia L. Yates
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Missing: { J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 60, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 28.4
Virginia L. Yates has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,099
Across
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Hollywood and truckle : BEDS
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Surface for Gretzky : ICE
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Disposition : MIEN
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Prototypical film : PILOT
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With no holds barred : DOGEATDOG
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"There lived ___ in days of yore": Thackeray : ASAGE
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Bordering : ALONGSIDE
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Swing, for one : SHIFT
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Suffix with Brooklyn : ITE
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A high old time : FUN
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Writers Morrison and Bambara : TONIS
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Uzbek or Tadzhik: Abbr. : SSR
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Infant or tact ender : ILE
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Take down ___ or two : APEG
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Machinist's pin : COTTER
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Portable bed : COT
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Resumé reader : HIRER
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Hangs in there : COPES
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On the carpet : INTHEDOGHOUSE
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Actress Strasberg : SUSAN
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Strong wrapping paper : KRAFT
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Male gypsy : ROM
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Apostatize : DESERT
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Surfeit : SATE
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Comedian Olsen : OLE
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Rock group that included J. Osborne : LTD
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South African leader: 1862-1919 : BOTHA
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Trireme propellant : OAR
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Rita's Khan : ALY
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Put in the minutes : ENTER
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Dumbfounded : STAGGERED
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"Once upon ___ ... " : ATIME
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Where things sometimes go : TOTHEDOGS
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Bit of evidence : SHRED
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Actress Kate of "Atlantic City" : REID
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Catch a monarch : NET
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Snead's needs : TEES
Down
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Chess piece : BISHOP
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A versatile May : ELAINE
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Von Richthofen's encounters : DOGFIGHTS
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Dele deleters : STETS
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Gilbertian princess : IDA
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High pass : COL
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I specialist : EGOIST
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"Le ___," Massenet opera : MAGE
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Part of T.G.I.F. : ITS
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Architects' products : EDIFICES
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Lumpy : NODULOSE
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Ziti or vermicelli : PASTA
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Baryshnikov leap : ENTRECHAT
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Civet's cousin : GENET
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Rubbed gently : STROKED
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Notched, as a battlement : CRENELLED
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Brit. lexicon : OED
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Highest part : ROOF
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"If ___ a Hammer" : IHAD
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___ dog (acts the swell) : PUTSONTHE
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One who quarantines : ISOLATOR
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Count noses : NUMERATE
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Guard dog's comment : GRR
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High perch : ROOST
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He wrote "Sophie's Choice" : STYRON
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Finery : ATTIRE
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Subjects : THEMES
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Like some pitchers : EARED
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Beauty's admirer : BEAST
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Mellow, as wine : AGED
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Alphabet run : GHI
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Actress Julie from Norway : EGE
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It ends end of Oct. : DST

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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