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Nancy Nicholson Joline
Nancy Nicholson Joline

New York Times, Saturday, September 23, 1989

37-Down : Perkins and Mencken

Author:
Nancy Joline
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 66, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.73, Missing: { J Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 244 (avg 1.29)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Grid flow: 35.1 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Nancy Nicholson Joline has 61 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 48 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Nancy Joline is an alias for Nancy Nicholson Joline.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,564
Across
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Sully : SMEAR
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Trump's forte : DEALS
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"Tristram Shandy" author : STERNE
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Calculates : TALLIES
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German P.O.W. camps : STALAGS
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Gracious; friendly : AMIABLE
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Suits : PETITIONS
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"The Sweet ___ of Success," 1957 film : SMELL
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Magnum ___ : OPUS
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Muse of poetry : ERATO
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Utah city : OREM
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Talk-show host Winfrey : OPRAH
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Decks : TRIMS
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Parseghian of coaching fame : ARA
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More acute : KEENER
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Certain vacation homes : RENTALS
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Regulated food quantities : DIETARIES
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French pantomime character : PIERROT
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Tijuana Brass man : ALPERT
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Hammarskjöld : DAG
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Hindu garments : SARIS
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Contributor to a comforter : EIDER
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Radius's neighbor : ULNA
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"Might Lak' a Rose" composer : NEVIN
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Prevalent : RIFE
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Lorna of fiction : DOONE
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Moves : RELOCATES
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Ban : EMBARGO
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Cicero and Bryan : ORATORS
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Steinbeck's hometown : SALINAS
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Long, narrow glacial drifts : ESKERS
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Turn back an odometer : RESET
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"Foul ___ will rise": Shak. : DEEDS
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Prestige : STATURE
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"Pelléas et ___," Maeterlinck drama : MELISANDE
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Part of Q.E.F. : ERAT
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Actress Dickinson : ANGIE
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Aspen, e.g. : RESORT
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Nobelist in Medicine: 1943 : DAM
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Ancient Olympics site : ELIS
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Where Davy Crockett died : ALAMO
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Tolerant : LIBERAL
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Clouseau's portrayer : SELLERS
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Treeless plain : STEPPE
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More savory : TASTIER
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Novelist Lagerlöf : SELMA
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Spy, slangily : SPOOK
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Account : NARRATIVE
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"___ vincit amor" : OMNIA
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Legatees : HEIRS
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Inscribed pillar : STELE
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Screened again : RERAN
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Inhaled : ASPIRATED
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Corrida stars : TOREROS
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Calif. observatory : PALOMAR
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Base : IGNOBLE
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Perkins and Mencken : EDITORS
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Alludes : REFERS
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Lock of hair : TRESS
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Dandies : DUDES
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Stored, as grain : SILOED
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Novelist Nin : ANAIS
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Old Scandinavian tongue : NORSE
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Irish river or lake : ERNE
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Baba or savarin : CAKE
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Heater for Capone : GAT

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