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Sara V. Tuckerman
Sara V. Tuckerman

New York Times, Friday, September 19, 1980

Author:
Sara V. Tuckerman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 45.3
Sara V. Tuckerman has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,273
Across
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Cougars : PUMAS
6
Fleshy fruit : DATE
10
"___ nome" : CARO
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___-garde : AVANT
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Soviet stream : URAL
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Mature : AGED
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A Darling child : WENDY
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Kind of tax : POLL
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Veer : SLUE
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Den : LAIR
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Merging : COALESCENT
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Criminals, collectively : FELONRY
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Author of "Them" : OATES
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Justice Potter ___ of the Supreme Court : STEWART
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Red deer : HIND
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Lichenose : MOSSY
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Trivial verse : DOGGEREL
35
Ending with insist or exist : ENT
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Musical passages : ARIOSOS
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Western Indian : UTE
40
Virginia creeper : WOODBINE
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Oncle's counterpart : TANTE
44
Mansard : ROOF
45
Legendary lake near Naples : AVERNUS
47
Jewel : BIJOU
50
Henry's quest : LIBERTY
52
Floral designs used in architecture : ACANTHUSES
54
Little devils : IMPS
57
"Quién ___?" : SABE
58
Figure skater's leap : AXEL
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Consume : USEUP
60
God of love : AMOR
61
Persian fairy : PERI
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Chaplain : PADRE
63
Court calls : LETS
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Voyaging : ASEA
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Sluggish : INERT
Down
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Detent : PAWL
2
Part of the eye : UVEA
3
Proclamation : MANIFESTO
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Dana or Julie : ANDREWS
5
Hampshire's dwelling : STY
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Delaware name of fame : DUPONT
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Howling : AROAR
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Huntsmen's cries : TALLYHOS
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French magazine : ELLE
10
Waterfall : CASCADE
11
Metal tip on a shoelace : AGLET
12
Join the old grads : REUNE
13
"Awake and Sing" playwright : ODETS
21
Bk. of the Bible : COR
22
Poet : SONGSTER
24
Strike in all directions : LAYABOUT
26
Diving bird : SMEW
27
"___-Bungay": H.G. Wells : TONO
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"But ___ on for ever": Tennyson : IGO
31
John or Jane : DOE
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Where the Magna Carta was signed in 1215 : RUNNYMEDE
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"___, Brute!" : ETTU
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Dregs : LEES
37
"___ Rita" : RIO
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Mouths of streams : INFLUXES
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Dull, monotonous speakers : DRONERS
43
Revere was one : ARTISAN
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Flowering shrub of Asia : ABELIA
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Ship: Abbr. : VES
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Adjective for a primer : BASAL
48
What "veni" means : ICAME
49
Frill on a shirt : JABOT
51
Grenoble's river : ISERE
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___ haole, Hawaiian-Caucasian : HAPA
55
Contented sound : PURR
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Small barracuda : SPET
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A. P. rival : UPI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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