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Torrey
Torrey

New York Times, Wednesday, April 6, 1983

Author:
Torrey
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { G J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 28.3 Grid has duplicate clues.
Torrey has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,202
Across
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"___, I'm Adam" : MADAM
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Neat : TRIM
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Mild expletive : DRAT
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Excuse : ALIBI
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Bit : IOTA
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Overhang : EAVE
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Book of the Bible : REVELATION
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The eyes have it : UVEA
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Parrot : KEA
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Not fair : FOUL
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P.O. device : DATER
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Swindles : CONS
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Contest : RACE
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On land : ASHORE
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The ___ the beast : NATUREOF
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Keyboard combination : CHORD
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Kismet : FATE
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Spoken : ORAL
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Anklebones : TALI
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Encrusted : CAKED
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Archibald of the Celtics : NATE
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Former British prime minister : EDEN
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Russian city : OREL
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Book of the Bible : HOSEA
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Foreordained : DESTINED
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Those on the ladder of success : COMERS
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Layers : HENS
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Prefix with clinic : POLY
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Steeple : SPIRE
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Thwart : FOIL
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"___ Maria" : AVE
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What robbers cop : PLEA
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Book of the Bible : CHRONICLES
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Mountain lake : TARN
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Hammer or sickle : TOOL
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Red dye : EOSIN
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He wrote "Lucky Jim" : AMIS
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___ Pea, Popeye's infant : SWEE
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Chief Justice: 1941–46 : STONE
Down
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Book of the Bible : MARK
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Hard ___ (nautical term) : ALEE
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Prima donna : DIVA
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Fortas, to his friends : ABE
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City on Long Island Sound : MILFORD
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Book of the Bible : TITUS
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Muddy : ROIL
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Westernizer of Japan : ITO
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Ordered : MANDATED
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Book of the Bible : DEUTERONOMY
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Kind of review : RAVE
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Declare : AVER
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An infusion : TEA
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Top-drawer : AONE
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Prefix with puncture : ACU
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Book of the Bible : CORINTHIANS
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Badger's kin : RATEL
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Emulated Maude Adams : ACTED
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Elm's beneficence : SHADE
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Golf targets : HOLES
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Stripped : NAKED
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Clear a tape : ERASE
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Film staple : OATER
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Canine scourges : FLEAS
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Cabbies' customers : FARES
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Links : CONNECTS
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Christmas decorations : HOLLIES
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Noun suffix : IER
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Crown, e.g. : COIN
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First Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1918 : POOLE
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Bridge coup : SLAM
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Persian fairy : PERI
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Log splitter's wedge : FROE
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Further : ALSO
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Ore carrier : VEIN
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Slave of yore : ESNE
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Sch. affiliate : PTA
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Lennon's "___ Do You Sleep?" : HOW
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Tent item : COT

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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