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Christy Ridley
Christy Ridley

New York Times, Thursday, April 25, 1991

71-Across : Pays; settles

Author:
Christy Ridley
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 22.6
Christy Ridley has 54 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,143
Across
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Total : ADDUP
6
Sprag : PROP
10
Musical inspired by T. S. Eliot : CATS
14
Stand of trees : GROVE
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Financial deal : REPO
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Metal eqpt. : HDWE
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Fabulous; visionary : ROMANTICAL
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Athirst : AVID
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Siamang : APE
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Group of whales : POD
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Abundant food fish : HERRING
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" ... Can You ___ Dime?" : SPAREA
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Host : EMCEE
28
Capable of movement : MOTILE
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S. African village : STAD
33
Forage plant : ERS
34
Wanderlust appeaser : TRIP
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Increase : STEPUP
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Certain students of human behavior : SOCIOBIOLOGISTS
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Thigh armor : TUILLE
44
Grayish yellow : ECRU
45
Miss Piggy, e.g. : SOW
48
Indian storeroom : GOLA
49
Respect : ESTEEM
51
Coarse linen cloth : CRASH
53
"A mother is not a person ___ on ... ": D. C. Fisher : TOLEAN
55
"___ Enough," TV sitcom : EIGHTIS
58
Buzzer : BEE
59
Have the flu : AIL
62
"Futilitarian" expression : NOGO
63
Speedway : RACECOURSE
66
A river at Rennes : ILLE
67
Wellaway : ALAS
68
Scottish dance : FLING
69
So-so grades : CEES
70
Montague, e.g. : NAME
71
Pays; settles : FOOTS
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Taj Mahal city : AGRA
2
Gutta : DROP
3
Of a household : DOMESTIC
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Pulpy fruit : UVA
5
Correspondent of a sort : PENPAL
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Group of lions : PRIDE
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___ room, as at camp : REC
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Colorful fish : OPAH
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Chopin was one : POLE
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Flock of finches : CHARM
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Counsel : ADVICE
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Ivy or morning glory : TWINER
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Flocks of herons : SEDGES
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Sped : TORE
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Excavated anew : REDUG
25
Larklike singing bird : PIPIT
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Elaine's home : ASTOLAT
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Ida and Ossa: Abbr. : MTS
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Gold, in Peru : ORO
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TV part : TELE
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G.I.'s overseas address : APO
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Threshold : SILL
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Michelangelo sculpture : PIETA
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Should, with "to" : OUGHT
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Live hist. : BIO
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Screenplay : SCENARIO
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Three, in Roma : TRE
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Aggregate : SUM
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Like Yosemite or Yellowstone Park : SCENIC
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Troupial : ORIOLE
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Shake : WAGGLE
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Pwr. source : ELEC
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Say "bon voyage" to : SEEOFF
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Crispin's products : SHOES
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Plump plus : OBESE
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Persia today : IRAN
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Hacienda room : SALA
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Berlin's "Say It ___ So" : ISNT
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Parts of journeys : LEGS
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Machine part : CAM
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Of the gums: Comb. form : ULO

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

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