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Richard Silvestri
Richard Silvestri

New York Times, Friday, July 20, 1979

47-Across : "Faerie Queen" poet

Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 27.0
Richard Silvestri has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 84 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,846
Across
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Pinochle maneuver : MELD
5
Musical session : JAM
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Mischievous : ELFIN
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River to the Baltic : ODER
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Type of survivor : SOLE
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Tropical climber : LIANE
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Team : SIDE
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"Could ___ Be Magic?" (1957 hit) : THIS
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Cons, in a way : ANTIS
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Substitute : STANDIN
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Certifies : ATTESTS
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Felon's abode : CELL
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"You Go to My ___," 1938 song : HEAD
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Sugar harvester's tool : MACHETE
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Surname of Joe Louis : BARROW
30
House in a Poe tale : USHER
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Proper words, sometimes : NOUNS
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One-thousandth of an inch : MIL
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Dull sound : THUD
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Nasty : SNIDE
37
Cone bearer : PINE
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Gumshoe : TEC
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"Feed ___ and starve a fever" : ACOLD
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Loops of hair : HANKS
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Paratrooper : SKYMAN
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" ... tails ___" : YOULOSE
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False god : BAAL
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Companion of hearty : HALE
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"Faerie Queen" poet : SPENSER
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Elaborate speech : ORATION
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Opera : WORKS
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Otiose : IDLE
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Rent : TORE
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Jibe : AGREE
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Like many of 10 Down's records : GOLD
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Japanese outcasts : ETAS
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Trifled : TOYED
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Pig's digs : STY
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Something to pass : SALT
Down
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Forest carpet : MOSS
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Emulate Horace Greeley : EDIT
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Woman in a Shelley poem : LEDA
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Soaked : DRENCHED
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Rock-and-roll great : JOHNLENNON
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Liston's conqueror : ALI
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Tableland : MESA
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Beetles : ELATERS
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Horizontal, in music : LINEAR
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"Blueberry Hill" man : FATSDOMINO
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Monogram unit: Abbr. : INIT
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Monster's locale : NESS
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Wading bird : STILT
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Stag : DEER
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Macbeth's earned position : THANE
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Mongrel : MUTT
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Contents of a silent butler : ASHES
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"Sweet Little Sixteen" man : CHUCKBERRY
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Memorable hiccuping rock-and-roller : BUDDYHOLLY
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Nictitates : WINKS
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Middle Eastern asset : OIL
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___-majesté : LESE
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Do-to-do progression : SCALE
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Artists' needs : PALETTES
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Heaped up : AMASSED
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Luau entertainment : HULA
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"___ Rose," 1926 song : YANKEE
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Rowed : OARED
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Ruth's sultanate : SWAT
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Lake Okefenokeean : POGO
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Tackles : RIGS
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Little bit : IOTA
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Viva-voce : ORAL
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Cozy place : NEST
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Period : DOT

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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