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Marjorie Pedersen
Marjorie Pedersen

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New York Times, Sunday, August 10, 1980

54-Down : Greek letter

Author:
Marjorie Pedersen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 172, Blocks: 90, Avg Word Len: 5.10, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 637 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 139, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 15, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 20, Grid flow: 27.0
Marjorie Pedersen has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,233
Across
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Portable room : CAMPER
7
Thank-you-___ (bumps) : MAAMS
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Money in Madras, once : ANNAS
17
P.G.A. star : PATE
21
Melodious : ARIOSO
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Follow : ENSUE
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Culpability : GUILT
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Cupid : AMOR
25
Arizona perfumes? : SCENTSOFYUMA
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Thread : LISLE
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Free electrons : IONS
29
These oppose pros : CONS
30
Rialto sign : SRO
31
Chicken farmer's astonishing reward? : PULLETSURPRISE
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Jennets : ASSES
36
"The ___ 'e knows ... ": Kipling : ORSE
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Summarize : TOT
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Hessian river : EDER
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Tommie ___, famed trumpeter : LOY
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Intensity : ARDOR
44
Suffix with serpent : INE
45
Korbut and Connolly : OLGAS
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Baryshnikov's fall guys? : BALLETSLIPPERS
55
"Tristram Shandy" author : STERNE
56
Gardner : ERLE
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Gibbet : GALLOWS
58
Secreted : HID
60
Housekeeping : MENAGE
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Carriage drawn by oxen : RUT
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___ than thou : HOLIER
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Potion : DOSE
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Century plants : AGAVES
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Unequal : ONESIDED
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West : MAE
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Ignoble : BASE
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Before : ERE
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Accent : STRESS
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Aisle not taken at a gallop? : BRIDALPATH
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Container for cymbidiums : VASE
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Salambao : NET
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How the hirsute tortoise finished? : AHEADOFHARE
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Vermouth designation : SEC
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Kind of bean or dragon : SNAP
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Summer's noncreator : ONESWALLOW
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Twisted, e.g. : DANCED
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Bunk : COT
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___ processing : DATA
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Suffix with class or test : IFY
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Semiarid Australian district : MOUNTEBA
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Pluto, to Cleo : OSIRIS
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Turn : VEER
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Became very irate : BOILED
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Feminists' org. : NOW
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Gorge : RAVINE
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Itinerary hdg. : ETA
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Decisive : CRUCIAL
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British carbine : STEN
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Lycée learners : ELEVES
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Lovely loch? : ATTRACTIVENESS
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Change a stone's position : RESET
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Mineo : SAL
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"Micrographia" author: 1665 : HOOKE
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River to the North Sea : DEE
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Pinafore : TIER
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Baste or shirr : SEW
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Kind of watch or sign : STOP
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___ apple : ADAMS
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Chef's song? : THYMEONMYHANDS
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Swiss canton : URI
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Wild plum : SLOE
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Gay blade : ROUE
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Pith helmet : TOPEE
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Dollar Day melee? : SHOPPINGMAUL
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Lenard's "Winnie ___ Pu" : ILLE
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Originate : ARISE
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City in western Wis. : TOMAH
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Witch foiler : GRETEL
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Be zetetic : SEEK
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Squelched : SATON
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Olympic star in 1936 : OWENS
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Dillon portrayer : ARNESS
Down
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"Envious" stabber : CASCA
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Author of "Le Mal": 1916 : ARCOS
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Appearances : MIENS
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Soprano from Conn. : PONSELLE
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Erhard's therapy : EST
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First woman to govern a state : ROSS
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"Tea for two and ___ you" : MEFOR
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One or another : ANY
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" ... notions about ___ power": Swift : ASUPERIOR
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Loose gown : MUMU
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Crested spoons : SEALTOPS
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Ornamental cord : AGLET
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Jour's opposite : NUIT
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Army hut : NISSEN
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Refer : ALLUDE
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Cubic meter : STERE
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Poker count : PAIR
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Mine, to Marie : AMOI
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Kin of oodles : TONS
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Gaelic : ERSE
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Acapulco gold : ORO
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Scholar's acquisition : LORE
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Michelangelo, to Lorenzo : PROTEGE
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Hurok : SOL
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Room in a pension : SALLE
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"___ and little fishes!" : YEGODS
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Municipal agcy. : DPW
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"Whatever ___ right": Pope : ISIS
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Leapin' ___ : LENA
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Beats in Gray's "Elegy ... "? : GRAVEACCENTS
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French city on the Maine : ANGERS
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Asiatic partridge : SEESEE
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Impact : BRUNT
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Options for changing the inhabitants? : ALTERNATIVES
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Shakespearean hanger : TALE
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Glissaded : SLID
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Greek letter : RHO
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Batter : SMASH
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Antony's faithful soldier : EROS
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Exclude : DEBAR
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"Hearken!" : HIST
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Without listening : DEAFLY
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Small spring : SEEP
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Where eggbeaters hover : MIDAIR
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Gustaf ___, former Swedish king : ADOLF
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"Faerie Queene" hag : ATE
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Egyptian god of pleasure : BES
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Not processed : RAW
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Monogram in the news: Nov. 22, 1963 : LHO
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Fido's offering : PAW
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Slit in a jacket : VENT
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Pismire : ANT
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Ho's partner : HEAVE
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True grit : SAND
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Cooking utensil : SCORER
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Cash-register recording : NOSALE
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Pleasant changes : OASES
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Fought like D'Artagnan : DUELED
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C.A. trees : EBOES
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Cockcrow : DAWN
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Apartment area : DINETTE
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Year in Henry II's reign : MIII
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Norwegian monarch : OLAV
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Cleave : RIVE
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Bibliog. entry : ETAL
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Devour : EAT
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What a plump steed does to an extent? : BUCKSSOME
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Double quartet : OCTET
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" ... there are ___ be broke": Scott : CROWNSTO
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"Kanthapura" author: 1938 : RAO
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Sowers : SEEDSMEN
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"Take ___ Train," 1941 song : THEA
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Teachers' org. : NEA
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Mexican matron : SENORA
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Axilla : ARMPIT
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Letters for Y. A. Tittle? : IOTAS
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Splendid raiment : SHEEN
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Elves : OUPHS
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Sawlike: Comb. form : PRI
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Winged : ALATE
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Pouts : MOUES
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Markets : SELLS
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Speaker at Cooperstown : TRIS
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What a dibble makes : HOLE
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Kind of tide or log : YULE
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Actor Donald: 1880–1946 : MEEK
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Gypsum : YESO
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Indian Ocean vessel : DHOW
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Actress Swenson : INGA
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Spider : PAN
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Wolfhound's warning : GRR

Answer summary:
17 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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