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Frances K. Schnitzer
Frances K. Schnitzer

New York Times, Monday, May 7, 1984

39-Across : Cowboy

Author:
Frances K. Schnitzer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 288 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 27.2
Frances K. Schnitzer has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,599
Across
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" ... ___ told by an idiot" : ATALE
6
Skin : PARE
10
Divulge secrets : BLAB
14
Palatable : SAPID
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Down with!: Fr. : ABAS
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Prefix with dynamics : AERO
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Substantiate : PROVE
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Type of Saint : LATTERDAY
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Notion, to Pierre : IDEE
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Covenant : PACT
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Small amounts : DRAMS
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Famous bonanza : COMSTOCKLODE
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Mah-jongg piece : TILE
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Actress Le Gallienne : EVA
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B'way hit sign : SRO
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Matriculate : ENROLL
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High-ranking officer : BRASSHAT
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Secular : LAIC
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A lettuce : COS
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Famed French actor : TATI
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Cowboy : BUCKAROO
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Horatian creations : EPODES
44
Ingested : ATE
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One of the Seven Dwarfs : DOC
46
___ the Red : ERIC
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___ barrel (the whole works) : LOCKSTOCKAND
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Trail of a wild animal : SPOOR
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Simians : APES
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___ of the Rat : YEAR
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Candidate proposer : NOMINATOR
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Magna ___ : CARTA
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Exploiter : USER
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Diving bird : LOON
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Father of Hector : PRIAM
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Hereditary unit : GENE
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Tree trunk : BOLE
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___ Rogers St. Johns : ADELA
Down
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Gelatinous food mold : ASPIC
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Slow, in music : TARDO
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" ... ___ lovely as a tree" : APOEM
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Farm animals : LIVESTOCK
5
Netherlands commune : EDE
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Buckingham, e.g. : PALACE
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Taken ___ : ABACK
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Freight trains : RATTLERS
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Superlative suffix : EST
10
Ballet handrail : BARRE
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"___ and the Swan" : LEDA
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Saroyan hero : ARAM
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Dandiprats : BOYS
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Icelandic literary works : EDDAS
21
Kind of tax : POLL
24
E. Indian herb : TIL
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Eggs, to Cicero : OVA
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Menhaden : SHAD
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Scold : RATE
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Elevator name : OTIS
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Exile island : ELBA
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Type of mile: Abbr. : NAUT
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Elmer or Grantland : RICE
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Hiss's cousin : BOO
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Place having many pens : STOCKYARD
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Crested parrot : COCKATOO
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Embellish : ADORN
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Fabulous bird : ROC
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Piccadilly Circus sight : EROS
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Flick : PIC
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Everlasting, to a poet : ETERNE
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France's longest river : LOIRE
48
Bobbin : SPOOL
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Eagle's nest : AERIE
50
Of birth : NATAL
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Shaw creation : DRAMA
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Cozy : SNUG
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Sit : POSE
54
Presage : OMEN
58
Vestment : ALB
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Audit man, for short : CPA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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