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Maura B. Jacobson
Maura B. Jacobson

TRAVEL LOG

New York Times, Sunday, April 27, 1986

8-Down : Soak, as flax

Author:
Maura B. Jacobson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 134, Blocks: 66, Avg Word Len: 5.60, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 524 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 128, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Maura B. Jacobson has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,319
Across
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Salivary gland : PAROTID
8
Fit for a king : REGAL
13
Clunes and McCowen : ALECS
18
Pain reliever : ANODYNE
19
Banished : EXILED
21
The Big Apple : GOTHAM
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County nation region city : SOMERSETTOGOTIBETHILO
26
Duo before hooray : HIPS
27
Harem chamber : ODA
28
Goes aboard : GETSON
29
Banana-peel mishap : SLIP
30
"___ of robins ... " : ANEST
32
Stable compartments : STALLS
35
Words of disapproval : TUTS
37
Luau souvenir : LEI
38
View from Gibraltar : STRAIT
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As busy as ___ : ABEE
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Grill's partner : BAR
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Prayer finales : AMENS
44
River forest firth : SOMMEARGONNEFORTH
48
Dermal opening : PORE
52
Netting for snaring : TOILS
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Whole number : INTEGER
54
Feudists : ENEMIES
56
Peddles : SELLS
58
Garbo and Nissen : GRETAS
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Made merry : REVELLED
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Hebrew months : ADARS
67
Friend of Topsy : EVA
68
City city state island : SEOULLYONSMAINERHODES
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Olive of the comics : OYL
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Spaniard's seven : SIETE
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Athletes' footwear : SNEAKERS
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Designer Rosenstein : NETTIE
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Bardot's director : VADIM
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Employ too often : OVERUSE
85
Whirling : INASPIN
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Watered silk : MOIRE
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Des Moines neighbor : AMES
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Nation islands river : ANDORRAANDAMANAAR
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Ile de la Cité's stream : SEINE
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B.&O. and L.I. : RRS
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Hayworth or Moreno : RITA
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Racing site in France : LEMANS
104
Draw on a straw : SIP
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Banned pesticides : DDTS
107
Discharged matter : EGESTA
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A Peace Nobelist: 1978 : SADAT
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"Thou the singer; ___ song!": Gilbert : ITHE
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Fancy : ORNATE
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Diminutive ending : ULA
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Half of N.B. : NOTA
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Nation river river city islands : GHANAWEIINNMOBILETRUK
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Built an aerie : NESTED
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Famous park in Vienna : PRATER
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Tartuffe's creator : MOLIERE
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Like an atoll : REEFY
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Emerson product : ESSAY
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Orchestral wind section : BRASSES
Down
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Sultans' associates : PASHAS
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Give unction : ANOINT
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Frolicsome one : ROMPER
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Black Sea port : ODESSA
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A son of Odin : TYR
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___ many words : INSO
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Ownership papers : DEEDS
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Soak, as flax : RET
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Outside: Prefix : EXO
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Titterer : GIGGLER
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Bitter drug : ALOES
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Riga citizen : LETT
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Ten-percenter : AGENT
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Movie studio : LOT
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Ordinal endings : ETHS
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Eerie tale : CHILLER
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Conspicuous : SALIENT
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Remote : DISTANT
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Feeling blah : MOPISH
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Japanese mat : TATAMI
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Cape Cod town : BOURNE
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Third word of "America" : TIS
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Walter and Elie : ABELS
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Charter : LEASE
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Less risky : SAFER
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"___ the Truth" : TOTELL
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Dwarfed tree : BONSAI
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"Mondo Cane" theme : MORE
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Saunters: Slang : MOSEYS
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Comedienne Radner : GILDA
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Incipient omelet : EGG
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Human individual : PERSON
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Cyclops' feature : ONEEYE
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Uprising : REVOLT
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Ostrich's relative : EMEU
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Laid up : ILL
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Disabled : LAMED
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Famed hymn : TEDEUM
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Disinclined : AVERSE
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Gives the lip to : SASSES
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"___ Hear a Waltz?" : DOI
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Hosp. staff members : RNS
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Mexican matron : SENORA
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Pulitzer biographer : NEVINS
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Use an S.R.O. ticket : STAND
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Disclose : REVEAL
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Possess, to Burns : HAE
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Gumbo ingredient : OKRA
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Noun suffix : TION
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"The Lady ___" : INRED
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Sense of pitch : EAR
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Playing marble : IMMIE
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Castle trenches : MOATS
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French existentialist : SARTRE
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Carrot's kin : PARSNIP
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"Three men ___" : INATUB
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Allot tasks : ASSIGN
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Nor's correlative : NEITHER
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Like some electrical circuits : DIPHASE
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Parisian moneys : ARGENTS
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Legal thing : RES
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"Praying" insect : MANTIS
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Idolizes : ADORES
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Human or Mother follower : NATURE
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Amounts bet : STAKES
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Not well dressed : DOWDY
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Lab burners : ETNAS
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Out on ___ (in jeopardy) : ALIMB
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Being, in Barcelona : ENTE
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Leeds's river : AIRE
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Lesser Sundra island : ALOR
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Pershing's org. : AEF
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___ culpa : MEA
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Rossini's "Le Comte ___" : ORY
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Guido's high note : ELA

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 13 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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