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Jones
Jones

New York Times, Saturday, May 3, 1986

21-Across : Saint ___, W. Va. city

Author:
Jones
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 30.9
Jones has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,325
Across
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Altman film: 1970 : MASH
5
Table Bay is one : INLET
10
Hemitrope : TWIN
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"Of olive, ___, and maize ... ": Tennyson : ALOE
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Lethal loop : NOOSE
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Like cerium : RARE
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Brave Algonquian? : GALLANTFOX
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Senior cits.' nest eggs : IRAS
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Penniless : INDIGENT
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Saint ___, W. Va. city : ALBANS
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"___ nome," Verdi aria : CARO
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Famed N.F.L. QB : SNEAD
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English oval : ASCOT
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Good for mudders : WET
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Rice or Fudd : ELMER
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Rang up : PHONED
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Walrus's protuberance : TUSK
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Actress Balin : INA
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Papal name : PIUS
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Antilles resort : ARUBA
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Compete at Yonkers : TROT
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Winged raptor : ERN
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Absquatulated : FLED
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Esprit de corps : MORALE
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Oblivion : LETHE
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Assam, e.g. : TEA
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Days of yore for oldsters : SALAD
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Composer Grofé : FERDE
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Ivan the Great, e.g. : SLAV
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Morris or Elsa : FELINE
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Rocket phase : STAGEONE
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Designer Cassini : OLEG
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Sunny Tomás? : GATODELSOL
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Roger! : OKEH
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Conscious : AWARE
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Author Leffland : ELLA
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Estonian's neighbor : LETT
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Praxiteles work : SATYR
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Horse of a certain color : ROAN
Down
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Subjects of a T. S. Eliot poem : MAGI
2
Actor Badel : ALAN
3
Auction word : SOLD
4
Tubas : HELICONS
5
Kind of circle : INNER
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Later : NOTNOW
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SoHo abode : LOFT
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Comb. form for 5 Down : ESO
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Dale Evans, e.g. : TEXAN
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Kind of dance : TRIBAL
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Bull Halsey? : WARADMIRAL
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Land south of the Caspian : IRAN
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Monster's loch : NESS
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Chalcedony : AGATE
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Shallot's kin : LEEK
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Pulverize : STUB
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Fencing ploy : APPEL
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Stallone co-star : SHIRE
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Tally the galleys? : COUNTFLEET
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Debussy composition : ETUDE
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Col. Tibbets's mother : ENOLA
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Held in check, at Saratoga : RATED
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Pigeon pea : DAL
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Senator Nunn : SAM
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Plexus : RETE
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Gulliver, e.g. : TRAVELER
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Maidenhair or bracken : FERN
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Siouan dialect : OSAGE
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Extreme : HEIGHT
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" ... ___ in every breeze": T. Moore : ASTORY
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"The Rehearsal" painter : DEGAS
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I.L.A. man : LADER
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Clown : FOOL
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Actress Sommer : ELKE
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Census fig. : STAT
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City north of the Skagerrak : OSLO
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Suburb of Napoli : NOLA
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Dash : ELAN
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Hoot ___, Scot's "tut" : AWA

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

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