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Christy Ridley
Christy Ridley

New York Times, Thursday, July 29, 1993

51-Across : Scripts

Author:
Christy Ridley
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 36.8
Christy Ridley has 54 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,969
Across
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Hoofbeats : CLOPS
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Yard supporter : MAST
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Treasury agts. : TMEN
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Place to which Abraham chased Chedorlaomer : HOBAH
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Salmagundi : OLIO
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Interlaced : WOVE
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Aromatic herb : ANISE
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Certain sharpeners : OILSTONES
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Horse opera : WESTERN
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Slope : VERSANT
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Vigorous : ENERGETIC
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D'Artagnan specialty : DUEL
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Whir : BIRR
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Arose : GOTUP
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Wing : ELL
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House, in Sonora : CASA
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Siegfried's horse : GRANI
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Anoint, old style : ANELE
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U.S.N.A. graduate : ENS
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Weird : EERIE
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Goods attached to a buoy : LAGAN
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Baker's aide : ICER
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On the ___ (precisely) : DOT
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Lovers' meeting : TRYST
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Opera by Salieri : ATAR
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Tom Mix's horse : TONY
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R. E. Lee's horse : TRAVELLER
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Scripts : SCENARI
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Mythical winged horse : PEGASUS
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Mounted procession : CAVALCADE
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Lariat : RIATA
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Film star Tamiroff : AKIM
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Ending for emend : ATOR
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Drew or Terry : ELLEN
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TV part : TELE
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Sundowns, to Shelley : EENS
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Knight's armor piece : TASSE
Down
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Plug of tobacco in 20 Across : CHAW
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The ___ Ranger : LONE
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Geishas' sashes : OBIS
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Short prose sketch : PASTEL
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Luster : SHEEN
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Luna's ascension above the horizon : MOONRISE
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___ Baba : ALI
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Fictional steed (see 2 Down) : SILVER
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" ... I was born ___ it right!": Hamlet : TOSET
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Forty : TWOSCORE
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Actress Barrie : MONA
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Level : EVEN
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Cozy retreat : NEST
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Roy Rogers's horse : TRIGGER
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Singer McEntire : REBA
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N.H. product : GRANITE
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Distributed cards : DEALT
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Of an armbone : ULNAR
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Lamentation : ELEGY
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Slow, to Solti : TARDO
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Source of strength : UNION
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Devoutness : PIETY
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At the middle : CENTRAL
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Direction on an application form : LASTNAME
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Illegal sellers of tickets : SCALPERS
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Director Kenton : ERLE
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Fly : AVIATE
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"There's a long, long ___-winding ... " : TRAILA
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Ancient strongboxes : ARCAE
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White-plumed bird : EGRET
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Shoo's cousin : SCAT
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Become crusty : CAKE
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Like hellhounds : EVIL
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Maglie and Mineo : SALS
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They preyed on Pueblos : UTES
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Rational : SANE
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Ho or Knotts : DON

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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