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Dwyer
Dwyer

New York Times, Friday, September 7, 1984

55-Down : Genetic substances

Author:
Dwyer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Dwyer has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,722
Across
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Sting : BARB
5
Legal wrongs : TORTS
10
Bismarck is its cap. : NDAK
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Crowd sound : ROAR
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Letting water in, as a ship : ALEAK
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A Chaplin : OONA
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Gnat at home plate? : INFIELDFLY
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Destroy : RUIN
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Courage : METTLE
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Clamber hurriedly : SCRAMBLE
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Substandard contraction : AINT
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Fiber for binder twine : SISAL
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Circuit device : RESISTOR
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Restaurant patrons : DINERS
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"Maria ___," 1933 song : ELENA
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French beasts : BETES
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Key word : PHI
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Tree resins : LACS
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Glens' cousins : DALES
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Collude : PLOT
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Suffix for Juan or Ben : ITO
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Begin to function : SETIN
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Craft : TRADE
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Formal offer : TENDER
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Emulated a jehu : COWBOYED
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Impressionist painter : DEGAS
49
Horse of a sort : ROAN
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Decorated, in a way : RIBBONED
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"___ nobis" : ORAPRO
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Kirghiz range : ALAI
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Platform for $1,000 bills? : GRANDSTAND
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Final : LAST
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Gardner et al. : ERLES
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Mild oath : EGAD
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Ogles : EYES
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God : DEITY
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Mtg. : SESS
Down
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Brink : BRIM
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Tops : AONE
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Kon-Tiki, e.g. : RAFT
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"... ___ coast looks white": Byron : BRITAINS
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Ability : TALENT
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"___ soldiers never die" : OLD
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Umps' associates : REFS
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Powders : TALCS
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Air-show excursions : SKYRIDES
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William the Conqueror was one : NORMAN
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"Hamlet"-"Othello" twin bill? : DOUBLEPLAY
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Blue dye : ANIL
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Welles role : KANE
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Cherubini opera : ELISA
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Sign at a sale : ASIS
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Go ___ for (defend) : TOBAT
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Kindled anew : RELIT
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Gladden : ELATE
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Place some suitors can't get to? : SECONDBASE
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Artifact : RELIC
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___ Island : RHODE
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Located : SITED
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Choir voice : TENOR
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Mad : DERANGED
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Turns the hand, in a way : PRONATES
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Perennial bulb plant : SEGO
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Ski lifts : TBARS
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Bookkeeping entries : DEBITS
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Like a copse : WOODSY
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Greenhouse, in Grenoble : SERRE
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Respiratory sound : RALE
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"Now ___ me ... " : ILAY
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He painted "Down the Rabbit Hole" : DALI
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Book part : PAGE
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Genetic substances : RNAS
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Evens' partner : ODDS
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Profit : NET

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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