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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Saturday, September 19, 1981

52-Down : "Hath ___ money?": Shylock

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { V Z }, Scrabble score: 319 (avg 1.65)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 62.2 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,638
Across
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Not authorized : TABU
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Dancer Jeanmaire : RENEE
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Pretense : MASK
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"Heads ___, tails ... " : IWIN
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Be : EXIST
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"Yes ___" (Sammy Davis Jr. book) : ICAN
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Centers of attraction : FOCI
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Actress Bisset : JACQUELINE
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Insignificant dot : FLYSPECK
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Search deeply : DREDGE
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Work together : COACT
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Equipment : GEAR
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Shade of brown : WALNUT
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Health-spa services : MASSAGES
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Ivy Leaguer : ELI
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Sanctioned : LEGAL
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School, in Savoie : ECOLE
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Limoges piece : DISH
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Star in Cygnus : DENEB
39
Author Bagnold : ENID
40
Early winner at Saratoga : GATES
42
Sphragistic items : SEALS
44
Midi time : ETE
45
Agnes Repplier was one : ESSAYIST
47
Where Belfast is : ULSTER
49
Ian Fleming villain : DRNO
50
Tend : SEETO
51
Strait of Dover port : CALAIS
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Life preservers : MAEWESTS
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In knowing style : EDUCATEDLY
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Bog fuel : PEAT
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Portnoy's creator : ROTH
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Pahlevi in 1980 : EXILE
62
City on the Wabash : PERU
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Molding that sounds exclamatory : OGEE
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Chicken and small : POXES
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Square 1, to homo sapiens : EDEN
Down
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One of a pair of spats : TIFF
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Mil. offense : AWOL
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Entertainers at old Madison Square Garden : BICYCLISTS
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Identity of musical pitch : UNISON
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Declined : REJECTED
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Pointed : EXACT
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Nora Charles's husband : NICK
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Title of courtesy: Abbr. : ESQ
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Musical pieces : ETUDES
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No problem for Sebastian Coe : MILERACE
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___ rain (lake pollutant) : ACID
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Solfaed : SANG
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Cypress feature : KNEE
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Expunge : ERASE
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Gauguin or Cézanne : PAUL
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Caesar's helmet : GALEA
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Doorstop : WEDGE
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Otherwise known as : ALIAS
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Impressionist originator : MANET
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Decayed or deteriorated : GONETOSEED
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Powerful minority : ELITE
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Passover feature : SEDER
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Plaster of paris : GESSO
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Vexatious problem : HEADACHE
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Ol' ___ (Sinatra) : BLUEEYES
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Aleppo's land : SYRIA
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Seattle ___ of racing fame : SLEW
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Boot part : INSTEP
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U.S.S.R. expanse : STEPPE
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Chateau chamber : SALLE
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Food fish : CERO
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"Hath ___ money?": Shylock : ADOG
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Theorbo's kin : LUTE
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Start of the reign of Henry VIII : MDIX
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Weed mentioned in the Bible : TARE
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Dumbfound : STUN
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Outer: Prefix : EXO

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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