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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Saturday, March 18, 1989

33-Down : ___-dokey

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 35.2
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,375
Across
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Grate upon : RASP
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Nobelist in Physics: 1944 : RABI
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Blunt-pointed rapier : FOIL
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Canadian prov. : ALTA
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"There was ___ ... ": Burns : ALAD
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Grasslike plant : SEDGE
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Try hard to please : FALLOVERONESELF
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Cavalrymen : TROOPERS
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___ of one's hand : EATOUT
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Fast-food treat : MALT
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Name for a cultural center : ATHENS
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Persian pixie : PERI
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Carlyle's "___ Resartus" : SARTOR
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Bani-Sadr, for one : IRANI
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Rathskeller quaff : BIER
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Long March leader : MAO
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Defeat decisively : PINONESEARSBACK
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Stage scene : SET
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Luzon volcano : TAAL
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Youngest one in "My Three Sons" : ERNIE
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Inclined (toward) : VERGED
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___ 500 : INDY
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Midtown traffic problems : SNARLS
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Pamphleteer of the 1760's : OTIS
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Marconi's homeland : ITALIA
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Caught unaware : STARTLED
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Angry advice to a nonswimmer? : GOJUMPINTHELAKE
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Llamas' milieu : ANDES
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Grain sorghum : MILO
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"Rome of Hungary" : EGER
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Floral greetings in Hilo : LEIS
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Fits to ___ : ATEE
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Potion : DOSE
Down
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Huck's craft : RAFT
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Pteroid : ALAR
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Capital of Manche : STLO
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Golden-coated horse : PALOMINO
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"Rhapsodie Espagnole" composer : RAVEL
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Warnings : ALERTS
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Places to tend : BARS
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June words : IDO
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Rankle : FESTER
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"___ a Grecian Urn": Keats : ODEON
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Arctic abodes : IGLUS
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Bridle hand : LEFT
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Fabled marine creature : SEAHORSE
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Fed. agency: 1941-46 : OPA
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Seine user : NETTER
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"Aïda" highlight : ARIA
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Singing Knight's backup : PIPS
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Part of HOMES : ERIE
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Carry on : RANT
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White poplar : ABELE
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Stopgaps : INTERIMS
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Heinrich or Horace : MANN
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Kind of rain : ACID
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___-dokey : OKEY
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Flap on a cap : EARLAP
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Buckles : SAGS
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Became angry : BRISTLED
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Esteems : VALUES
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Remnant in a smoker's pipe : DOTTLE
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"Lust for Life" author : STONE
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Saudi native : NAJDI
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Lake on Nev.'s border : TAHOE
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Enrage : IRE
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Motorbike fill-up, perhaps: Abbr. : IGAL
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Fit of pique : SNIT
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Como is one : LAGO
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Stretches the budget, with "out" : EKES
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Streeter's "___ Mable" : DERE
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Diamond's "___ Believer" : IMA

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

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