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Stanley Glass
Stanley Glass

New York Times, Wednesday, July 25, 1990

31-Down : Beat a bridge contract

Author:
Stanley Glass
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Stanley Glass has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,869
Across
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Cousin of grits : SAMP
5
June 6, 1944 : DDAY
9
Graf ___ : SPEE
13
Kind of surgeon : TREE
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Cleveland's lake : ERIE
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"Iphigenia at ___": Euripides : AULIS
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Educ. inst. : ACAD
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Craving : LUST
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Climbing vine : LIANE
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Sign up talk-show host at town dump? : LANDPHIL
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Sympathetic sorrow : PITY
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Capital of South Australia : ADELAIDE
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Called forth : EVOKED
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Yankee catcher : GEREN
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Nobility : PEERAGE
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Took a nap : REPOSED
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British gun : STEN
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Criticize : RAP
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Apt to be fond of rebel leader? : LIKELEE
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Work unit : ERG
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Newspaper notice, for short : OBIT
41
Pinch-hitters for parents : SITTERS
43
Hide : SECRETE
45
Below : INFRA
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Acid neutralizer : ALKALI
50
Got : PROCURED
53
Marechal ___, yellow climbing rose : NIEL
54
Exhilarated dancer in health routine? : HIGHGENE
55
Crime fighter's tactic : STING
57
Mussorgsky's mountain? : BALD
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Obtains : GETS
59
Cagney's partner on TV : LACEY
60
___ of Capri : ISLE
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"L'___, c'est moi" : ETAT
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Restrainer : YOKE
63
Comics' Harold : TEEN
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Function : ROLE
Down
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German prison camp : STALAG
2
Part of many a mall : ARCADE
3
Less thoughtful : MEANER
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Itinerant merchant : PEDDLER
5
Area of India's capital : DELHI
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Celtic priest : DRUID
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Bride's path : AISLE
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Still : YET
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Would-be spouses : SUITORS
10
Be Petruchio's bride just to appease? : PLAYKATE
11
German article : EIN
12
Ethnic suffix : ESE
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Vigorous : ALIVE
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Type of wall covering : PANEL
21
Carolina river : PEEDEE
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Historic Hungarian city : EGER
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Veteran Chinese leader : DENG
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Bombard : PELT
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Flower part : PISTIL
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Steinbeck character : OKIE
31
Beat a bridge contract : SET
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Sub ___ (secretly) : ROSA
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Earliest victim : ABEL
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Choose Mr. Charles at an outing? : PICKNICK
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Von Stroheim of the movies : ERICH
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Prospective worker : TRAINEE
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Tighter fitting : SNUGGER
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"___ Written in a Country Churchyard" : ELEGY
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"___ Be You and Me," by Marlo Thomas : FREETO
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Fee for building use : RENTAL
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Hymn start : ADESTE
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Part of a cycle : PHASE
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Moon valley : RILLE
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Utah city : OGDEN
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Stallone's nickname : SLY
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Chinese philosophy : TAO
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Small part : BIT

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

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