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Louise Earnest
Louise Earnest

New York Times, Thursday, September 27, 1979

Author:
Louise Earnest
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 19.4
Louise Earnest has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,915
Across
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T.R.'s "big" weapon : STICK
6
Native of Wichita : KANSAN
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Normal time, musically : ATEMPO
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Figures in sports : SEMIPROS
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Chinese skiff : SAMPAN
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Calaboose : HOOSEGOW
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Printed booboos : TYPOS
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Unless, in law : NISI
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Battle site in 1796 : LODI
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Composer's product : OPUS
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Letter after cee : DEE
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Figures on Wall Street : BULLS
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Provides T.L.C. : NURTURES
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Figures at Aqueduct : PONIES
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After zeta : ETA
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Sparks or Buntline : NED
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Sty talk : OINKS
29
"___ M for Murder" : DIAL
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Figures in D.C. : SENS
31
British measure : LITRE
32
"___ on parle ... " : ICI
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U.S. mortgage guarantor : FHA
36
Abbey Theater's Sean : OCASEY
38
Cloverleaf locales : FREEWAYS
40
Figures in silents : VAMPS
41
Free : RID
42
"Miserabile dictu!" : ALAS
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Moslem V.I.P. : EMIR
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"___ of Wine and Roses" : DAYS
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Creator of Mr. Pim : MILNE
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Do a decorator's job : RENOVATE
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Certain protests : SITINS
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Figure in transit : TRAVELER
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Figure in a Shakespearean poem : ADONIS
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Actress Smith : ALEXIS
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Pop song group : WINGS
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Remain permanently : STAYPUT
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Seafood fritters, Japanese style : TEMPURA
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Duty : IMPOST
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Figures in figures : CPAS
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___-Tiki (Heyerdahl boat) : KON
6
One of the Cyclades : KEOS
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Mine, in Boulogne : AMOI
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City in Yugoslavia : NIS
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Explores caves : SPELUNKS
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Gulf of ___, in the Aegean : ARGOLIS
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Noggin : NOODLE
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Robbins's "___ for Danny Fisher" : ASTONE
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Starts : SHIES
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Chard or cheese : SWISS
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Badger : NEEDLE
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Like a cloudy day : DREARY
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Clyde's partner : BONNIE
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Makes one : UNITES
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Patched : PIECED
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Egyptian god of the lower world : OSIRIS
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Refute : DISPROVE
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Layered : LAMINAL
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"___ in Love Again," 1930 song : FALLING
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Town on Cape Cod : HYANNIS
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Evaluate : ASSESS
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Manifest : OVERT
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Tourist's neckwear : CAMERA
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Poultry-counter item : FRYER
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Serve : WAITON
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Painter of limp watches : DALI
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Endings for consul and sultan : ATES
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Noon, in Nice : MIDI
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Irk : VEX
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Adage : SAW

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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