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Louis Baron
Louis Baron

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New York Times, Sunday, September 21, 1980

52-Across : Vernon Blythe's dancing partner

Author:
Louis Baron
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 142, Blocks: 68, Avg Word Len: 5.25, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 605 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 127, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9, Grid flow: 45.8
Louis Baron has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,275
Across
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Astringent : ALUM
5
Glower : SCOWL
10
Puppeteer Lewis : SHARI
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Con job : SCAM
19
Except : SAVE
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Blake of Jazz : EUBIE
21
Moslem judge : HAKIM
22
Disyllabic sigh : AHME
23
Gardner's "The Case of the ___" : STUTTERINGBISHOP
26
What bêtes noires inspire : FEAR
27
Hard-to-hold type : EEL
28
Author Kingsley : AMIS
29
Asks for : WANTS
30
Spinachlike plant : ORACHE
32
Apprentice : TRAINEE
34
Director of "The Servant": 1963 : LOSEY
35
He wrote "Uhuru" : RUARK
36
Poe's "The Angel of the ___" : ODD
37
Promenade : CORSO
38
Most sharp-witted : CANNIEST
41
Write back : REPLY
44
Hit musical of 1951 : THEKINGANDI
46
Hugo's "___ Blas" : RUY
47
Kazan : ELIA
48
Use 'baccy : CHAW
49
Oval segments : ARCS
50
U-boat's sea : MEER
51
Burrows : ABE
52
Vernon Blythe's dancing partner : IRENECASTLE
56
Amerind group : CADDO
57
Certain settlers : DECIDERS
59
Wolf-whistle accompaniment : OGLE
60
Proust or Marceau : MARCEL
61
Undo : ERASE
62
Interweave : BRAID
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Admiral Andrea : DORIA
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This can be Cannes : RESORT
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Mil. training unit : ROTC
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Fast and dazzling : METEORIC
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Without help : ALONE
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Carroll character : WHITEKNIGHT
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Vowel for Euripedes : ETA
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Not like a sure thing : IFFY
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Courts : WOOS
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Oxalis plants : OCAS
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It once cost 5 cents : BEER
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One place to get an E.E. : MIT
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Slangsters' uncles : PAWNBROKERS
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Actor Hagman : LARRY
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Like an igloo : UNHEATED
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Defective: Comb. form : ATELO
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Rooks, e.g. : MEN
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Sidled : EDGED
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Anglers' delights : BITES
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Top of the ladder : SUCCESS
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More foresighted : CAGIER
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Edible tubers : SALEP
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Middle: Comb. form : MESO
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Mini-question : WHY
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Center of Q.E.D. : ERAT
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She played a maid in "G.W.T.W." : BUTTERFLYMCQUEEN
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Icy coating : RIME
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Commercial willow : OSIER
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Old district of Asia Minor : IONIA
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Plod : SLOG
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Made oneself scarce : FLED
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Junk and Scotland : YARDS
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Butter melter : TOAST
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Sand's "___ et Lui" : ELLE
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Plus item : ASSET
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Staller's promise : LATER
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Tonsil's neighbor : UVULA
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Conjoined : MET
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Appeared : SEEMED
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One of two Nobelists: 1903 : CURIE
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Ginza purchases : OBIS
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Beat the game : WIN
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Reporter's routine : LEGWORK
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Order to a "Harvest Moon": 1908 : SHINEON
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Precipitate : HASTY
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Spirits, in Egyptology : AKHS
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Sugar Loaf's city : RIO
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Seizes legally : IMPOUNDS
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Veld entourage : SAFARI
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Rake's progress : CHECKEREDCAREER
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Eastern nana : AMAH
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Like a pittance : MERE
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Jessica of the stage : TANDY
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Pinza and Hines : BASSI
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Rajah's lady : RANI
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City in SE Kansas : IOLA
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Lerner's collaborator : LOEWE
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Sheriff in a Puccini opera : RANCE
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Oland, Toler et al. : CHANS
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Composer Orff : CARL
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Glove-in-the-raw : SUEDE
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Yodeler's turf : TYROL
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Decode a primer : READ
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River to the North Sea : ELBE
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"But helpless ___ He plays": FitzGerald : PIECESOFTHEGAME
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"Hey" or "Over" follower : THERE
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Like many fences : GATED
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Peak : CREST
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Puzo or Lanza : MARIO
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"Fain would I, but ___ not" : IDARE
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"Pastorale" painter: 1873 : COROT
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Type size : AGATE
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Smooth-talking : SLICK
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"Add here" mark : CARET
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Speaker's device : IRONY
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Millers : MOTHS
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Cap. of Queensland : BRISB
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Artist Edgar : DEGAS
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Jules Muraire of French cinema : RAIMU
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Pixie : ELFIN
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Prefix with scope : MICRO
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Caesar's way : ITER
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Author Joyce : CARY
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Had 'em in the aisles : WOWED
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Neighbor of Guat. : HOND
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Seasonal songs : NOELS
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Song of 1922 : WATERBOY
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Judicial seat : BANC
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Trainbearer : PAGE
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Those who viteruperate : RAILERS
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Web-footed mammal : OTTER
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Do exercises : KEEPFIT
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Gaboriau's gumshoe : LECOQ
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Made publishable : EDITED
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Oman's capital : MUSCAT
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Like some breaths : BATED
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Game rounds : SEMIS
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Tom of "The Seven Year Itch" : EWELL
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Underworld, O.T. style : SHEOL
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Irish Renaissance dramatist : SYNGE
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Anthologist Bennett : CERF
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Seed envelope : ARIL
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Show life : STIR
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Parrot's rival : MYNA
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Kyushu town : USA
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Richard ___, Oriental actor : LOO
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"What's the ___?" : USE

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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