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John Willig
John Willig

NAME-DROPPING

New York Times, Sunday, January 21, 1968

24-Across : Eccentric.

Author:
John Willig
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 176, Blocks: 83, Avg Word Len: 5.07, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 677 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 142, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 19 Grid has duplicate clues.
John Willig has 8 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1968, The New York TimesNo. 6,735
Across
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Diminish gradually. : PETEROUT
9
Crow's cousin. : JAYBIRD
16
1958 Derby winner. : TIMTAM
22
Like some troops. : AIRBORNE
23
Resistance to change. : INERTIA
24
Eccentric. : ODDONE
25
Refused cards, in poker. : STOODPAT
26
Marat/Sade's company. : MANIACS
27
Originator of an "ism." : MESMER
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Weeds out. : THINS
29
Envelops. : WRAPS
31
Leather. : ELK
32
Doctors' order: Abbr. : AMA
33
Kind of lamb. : EWE
34
Count (on). : RELY
35
Rutherford B. : HAYES
36
Condition of sale. : ASIS
37
Ernie. : PYLE
39
Poss. pronoun. : YRS
40
"___ Raiders" of W. W. II. : CARLSONS
42
Inspirit. : CHEER
44
G.I. honors. : DSMS
48
Welles role. : KANE
49
"And ___ grow on." : ONETO
51
Shells, for short. : AMMO
52
"Let George ___." : DOIT
53
Incense. : ANGER
56
Species: Abbr. : SPP
58
Baseball's Speaker. : TRIS
60
What acid does. : EATSINTO
62
Maracas, in a way. : GOURDS
64
Kind of curtain: Abbr. : ASB
66
Consecutively. : INTURN
68
Find. : LEARN
69
See 12 Down. : EDAM
70
Jersey. : COW
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Cole. : OLDKING
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Name on a roster. : LISTEE
75
Wine holder. : DEMIJOHN
77
Insect. : BEE
78
Necessary. : NEEDED
80
Attention-getters. : ADS
81
Rent. : TORN
82
Long-range weapon, for short. : IBM
83
Abbreviation in physics. : CGS
84
Maintain. : AVER
86
Mars, for example. : ORB
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AKC member? : SCOTTY
91
Manner. : AIR
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19th century carriage. : CLARENCE
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Prepare for replastering. : RELATH
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Duplicate. : REPLICA
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Champagnole's river. : AIN
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Young horse. : FOAL
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Tousled. : ACURL
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Ape. : SIMIAN
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Wild ox. : YAK
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Certain strings. : TWINES
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Disrespect. : CONTEMPT
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Chinquapins. : NUTS
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Barents. : SEA
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Pineapple plant. : ANANA
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French novelist (1850–1923). : LOTI
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Brother of Hephaestus. : ARES
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Scoria. : DROSS
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Vex: Dial. : RILE
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If not. : ELSE
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TV's "again" show. : RERUN
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Did penance. : EXPIATED
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Deprive of: Prefix. : DIS
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Papal tribunal. : ROTA
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Put forth. : POSE
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Moth species. : EGGER
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Fashion feature. : VENT
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Girl's name. : RAE
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Top. : LID
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One-time Fordhamite. : POE
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Money in Pakistan. : ANNAS
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Desert pears. : CACTI
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Secure. : OBTAIN
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Color. : OLDGOLD
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Emulate the "Old Soak." : TIEONEON
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Reason. : MOTIVE
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Architect of the Tuileries. : DELORME
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A kind of action. : HARRYING
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What a bodkin makes. : EYELET
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Backstage helper. : DRESSER
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Enlivens. : ANIMATES
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Mille-feuilles. : PASTRY
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This or that. : EITHER
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Family in Scott's "The Pirate." : TROILS
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Ceylon export. : EBONY
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Viral forms. : RODS
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Fret: Scot. : ORP
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Taken ___ (surprised). : UNAWARES
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Explosive. : TETRYL
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Kind of weed: Var. : JIMPSON
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Anecdotal collections. : ANAS
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Pay for Sato. : YEN
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Cheeses. : BRIES
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Of certain languages. : ITALIC
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Edo carriage. : RICKSHA
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Attys. : DAS
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Buncombe. : TOMMYROT
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Perfect! : IDEAL
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De Bakey and others. : MDS
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Library feature. : TOME
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Over. : ANEW
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Bare. : MERE
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Of a fabled author. : AESOPS
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Tarzan. : APEMAN
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Chinese dynasty. : HAN
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In the saddle. : ASTRIDE
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Swirls. : EDDIES
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Queen. : CARD
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Yield. : NET
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Arise. : EMERGE
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Opus. : SONATA
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Like some collars. : MITRED
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Pits. : STONES
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A Roosevelt. : KERMIT
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Porcine sound. : OINK
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Ripened. : AGED
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Stem joint. : NODE
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Where Agana is. : GUAM
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Game piece. : PAWN
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Fish. : STINGRAY
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Baseball term. : SLIDER
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Travel fast: Colloq. : SCORCH
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Grooming aid. : BOBBYPIN
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French pronoun. : UNES
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"You don't mean it!" : OHNO
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Man's nickname. : LEM
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Oscar. : LEVANT
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Subway action. : JOSTLE
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Spanish painter. : DALI
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Detail. : ITEM
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Military abbreviation. : CIC
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Polish. : REFINE
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"I am Sir ___." : ORACLE
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Add more ice. : RECOOL
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Dulls. : BLUNTS
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Commoner. : TRITER
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Racecourse of world fame. : AINTREE
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Lady Baltimore ___. : CAKE
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Girl's name. : NONA
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City of Calvados. : CAEN
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Best-selling jungle heroine. : ELSA
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More showy. : ARTIER
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English prelate. : LAUD
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Extend. : SPREAD
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Prescribe. : ASSIGN
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Pioneer in social work. : WALD
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Disciplinarian. : MARTINET
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Ball team, for short. : SOX
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Kind of well. : ARTESIAN
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Lither. : SUPPLER
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Stephen or Diamond Jim. : SPENDER
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Adjective suffix. : IER
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Improvise on a sax. : NOODLE
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Sicilian saint. : AGATHA
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Trickery. : DECEIT
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Chant. : INTONE
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Cheats: Slang. : STINGS
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Color. : OLIVE
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Lily plants. : SEGOS
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"Uncle ___." : VANYA
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Ackley's new post. : ROME
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"It's ___!" : ABOY
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Suffix with Ann or Nan. : ETTE
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Cairo dancer. : ALME
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Stem base. : CORM
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Be in trouble. : AIL
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Extra. : ODD
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Noun suffixes. : ORS
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Son of Gad. : ERI

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 10 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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