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Irene Smullyan
Irene Smullyan

New York Times, Friday, September 20, 1985

Author:
Irene Smullyan
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { G J K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 63.3 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Irene Smullyan has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,100
Across
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Laver rival, once : ASHE
5
Climax : CAP
8
La Casa ___ (The White House) : BLANCA
14
Legal claim : LIEN
15
Gallina's largess : OVA
16
Compensation : REWARD
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Pianist Templeton : ALEC
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Gas-pressure gauge : TENSIMETER
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Emulates John R. Neill : ILLUSTRATES
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News serv. : UPI
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Emanation from stagnation : MIASMA
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Acad. title : PROF
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Ben Adhem's group : TRIBE
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Merit : EARN
30
Wild speech : RANT
31
Carpenter's companion : WALRUS
33
Leaf appendage : STIPEL
35
Ursa Minor cynosure : POLARIS
37
Francis Marion's ploys : SORTIES
40
Having a handle : ANSATE
42
Tropical break : SIESTA
43
Elec. term : ACDC
45
Belgian city : MONS
47
Branch of zool. : ENTOM
48
Kind of review : RAVE
49
Finally : ATLAST
51
Hero of Uris's "Exodus" : ARI
52
Calumnies : DETRACTIONS
57
Rambling : DISCURSIVE
59
Sub in a tub : OLEO
60
White poplars : ABELES
61
"___ let them clash!": Burns : EEN
62
Well informed about : UPON
63
Church seat : SEDILE
64
TU-144, e.g. : SST
65
City on the Yonne : SENS
Down
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Turkish regiment : ALAI
2
Threshold : SILL
3
Bounder : HEEL
4
Burden : ENCUMBRANCE
5
Short surplice : COTTA
6
Disinclined : AVERSE
7
Hats, trees or sheep : PANAMAS
8
Cheese-making French region : BRIE
9
Units on space vehicles : LEMS
10
Reverential feeling : AWE
11
Student of flora and fauna : NATURALIST
12
Crinkled fabric : CREPON
13
Aimless : ADRIFT
19
Jumps a battery : STARTS
21
Sirs, to Louis XIV : SIEURS
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Affectedly grand : PRETENTIOUS
25
County subdiv. : TWP
26
Contemporary Indian novelist : RAO
27
Unwise : ILLADVISED
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Homer's legendary burial place : NIOS
32
Rama's land : SIAM
34
Cobb's Judge ___ : PRIEST
36
Ermines in summer : STOATS
38
W.W. II arena : ETO
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U.S. missile : SAM
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Log notations : ENTRIES
43
Cultivated areas in Tex. : ARADAS
44
Vicious tropical fish : CARIBE
46
Aïda and Spartacus, e.g. : SLAVES
50
" ... not ___ for tribute": Harper : ACENT
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Affair of honor : DUEL
53
Gaelic : ERSE
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Spoutless jug : OLPE
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It glows for shows : NEON
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Pearl Buck book : SONS
58
Year in the reign of Antoninus Pius : CLI

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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