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Alfio Micci
Alfio Micci

New York Times, Friday, September 24, 1982

32-Across : Mil. truant

Author:
Alfio Micci
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 21.7
Alfio Micci has 91 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 11 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,008
Across
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Design on a document : SEAL
5
Canadian peninsula : GASPE
10
Dyers' purchase : VATS
14
Farm unit : ACRE
15
New York city : OLEAN
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Discharge : EMIT
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Respighi work, with "The" : FOUNTAINSOFROME
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Necessitated : ENTAILED
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Compare : LIKEN
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German article : EIN
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Cartoonist Addams : CHAS
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Stolid : BOVINE
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Used a wedge : SHIMMED
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Mil. truant : AWOL
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Relinquish : WAIVE
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"Cara ___," 1954 song : MIA
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Verdi work, with "The" : SICILIANVESPERS
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Alfonso's queen : ENA
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Water buffalo : ARNEE
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Progress : ONGO
43
He takes panes with his work : GLAZIER
45
White's Charlotte, e.g. : SPIDER
47
Booted feline : PUSS
48
Belgian resort : SPA
49
Author of "The Overcoat" : GOGOL
52
Time saver : SHORTCUT
57
Bach work : ITALIANCONCERTO
60
Little ___ of fiction : NELL
61
Old Chinese weight : LIANG
62
Lecherous look : LEER
63
Modern Christiania : OSLO
64
Toot : SPREE
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For fear that : LEST
Down
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Ump's call : SAFE
2
A social sci. : ECON
3
In ___ (caught by routine) : ARUT
4
___ the Hyena, of comics : LENA
5
Boston's Mike Moffat, e.g. : GOALIE
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Far from familiar : ALIEN
7
Dispatch : SEND
8
Dads : PAS
9
Em followers : ENO
10
Objective art : VERISM
11
Frenzied : AMOK
12
Use a stopwatch : TIME
13
An Anna to whom Goldwyn brought manna : STEN
18
___ Shan, Asian range : TIEN
19
Sweethearts : FLAMES
23
Onion's kin : CHIVE
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Busy place : HIVE
25
Low : BASE
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In arrears : OWING
27
Kind of cords : VOCAL
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River of China : ILI
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Less flighty : SANER
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Fix copy : EMEND
31
Music for mourners : DIRGE
33
Subsides : WANES
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Hebrew lyre : ASOR
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Lapiz ___ : LAZULI
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Author Murdoch : IRIS
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Oahu fare : POI
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Space project : APOLLO
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Freeload : SPONGE
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Pierre's playground : PARC
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Excelled : SHONE
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Name for a bambino : GINO
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Residents: Suffix : OTES
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Chafe : GALL
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Cicatrix : SCAR
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Archer William : TELL
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Algonquian : CREE
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Salt Lake City team : UTES
56
Civil wrong : TORT
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Kaline and Smith : ALS
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___ in the bud (stop) : NIP

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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