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Jim Modney
Jim Modney

New York Times, Thursday, January 22, 1981

68-Across : Culinary herbs

Author:
Jim Modney
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { F G J Q }, Scrabble score: 312 (avg 1.69)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jim Modney has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,398
Across
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Term of endearment : BABY
5
Biblical queen : SHEBA
10
Bear's lair : CAVE
14
Fitzgerald : ELLA
15
Dud : LEMON
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Follow orders : OBEY
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Like ___ of bricks : ATON
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"My Fair Lady" girl : ELIZA
19
Sky-clad : NUDE
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Elvis Presley, e.g. : ROCKANDROLLSTAR
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Word with head or tail : END
24
Te in "Te amo" : YOU
25
"Familiarity begets ___": Marmion : BOLDNESS
30
Horror-movie character : ZOMBIE
34
Dir. from Albuquerque to Denver : ENE
35
Missilemen : ROCKETEERS
37
Kin of epsilons : ETAS
39
LeFlore of the White Sox : RON
40
Office copy, for short : STAT
41
Nadir : ROCKBOTTOM
45
Soissons saison : ETE
46
Baseball or softball : SPHERE
47
Politico with his mouth open : TWADDLER
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Female swan : PEN
51
What O'Neill called "Dat ole davil" : SEA
52
Advice to an upstart : DONTROCKTHEBOAT
61
Mine, in Paris : AMOI
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Wavy pattern in fur : MOIRE
63
Glaswegian hillside : BRAE
64
Chagall or Blitzstein : MARC
65
Record : ENTER
66
Whar "'Omer smote" : LYRE
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Weaponry : ARMS
68
Culinary herbs : LEEKS
69
Arithmetic for Rooney : EXES
Down
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Silvertip, e.g. : BEAR
2
Voice in the old village choir : ALTO
3
Special-interest group : BLOC
4
Took part in a tug of war : YANKED
5
Like most models : SLENDER
6
Artist who depicted flappers : HELD
7
Turkish official : EMIR
8
This guy is no doll : BOZO
9
Study critically : ANALYZE
10
Eats : CONSUMES
11
Touch at one end : ABUT
12
Hindu scriptures : VEDA
13
His pupils are on the watch : EYER
21
Sothern from a Northern state : ANN
22
Spoils : LOOT
25
Tummy enlargers : BEERS
26
Dominant : ONTOP
27
Cary Grant at birth : LEACH
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Order : SORT
29
Mexican War hero : SCOTT
31
Asian climbing plant : BETEL
32
Stormy; fuming : IRATE
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Depside is one : ESTER
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Cognize : KNOW
38
They have reservations : SKEPTICS
42
Rabbit or fox : BRER
43
Greek sweet drink : OENOMEL
44
Men who are too familiar : MASHERS
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Aberdeen's river : DEE
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Dilettantes do this : DABBLE
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Toledo lady : DAMA
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Jerusalem's Mosque of ___ : OMAR
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Standard : NORM
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Word with nose or pine : CONE
56
Franklin flew one : KITE
57
Arduous journey : TREK
58
Long-horned antelope : ORYX
59
Swiss river : AARE
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Items in a golf bag : TEES

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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