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Bryant White
Bryant White

New York Times, Friday, January 29, 1993

14-Across : ___ morocco (leather)

Author:
Bryant White
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Bryant White has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 29 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,788
Across
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A friend of Athos : ARAMIS
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Sealing-wax ingredient : LAC
10
British field marshal: W.W. II : GORT
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___ morocco (leather) : LEVANT
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Actress Kaminska : IDA
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Mars: Comb. form : AREO
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Complete failure : FIASCO
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Spoil : MAR
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Actress Foch : NINA
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GOSILVERTS? : SILVERINGOTS
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Pygmalion's ivory statue : GALATEA
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Type of slipper : BALLET
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Character in Meyerbeer's "Robert the Devil" : ALICE
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Dawson of N.F.L. fame : LEN
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Court hearings : OYERS
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Metz evening : SOIR
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Hot, violent Arabian wind : SIMOOM
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THE GI? : PIECESOFEIGHT
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Devonshire city : EXETER
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Author O'Flaherty : LIAM
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Donee's opposite : GIVER
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Thalassic locale : SEA
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Main artery : AORTA
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Loci for gladiatorial combats : ARENAE
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Hay-fever cause : RAGWEED
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"ISLAND"? : LOSTTREASURE
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One opposed : ANTI
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Laceration : RIP
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Shipworm : TEREDO
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Low is one : GEAR
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Cinnabar, e.g. : ORE
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Lurched : REELED
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Escutcheon's inner border : ORLE
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Mardi Gras V.I.P. : REX
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Whirled about : EDDIED
Down
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TV alien : ALF
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Legal defendants : REI
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Astaire's daughter : AVA
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Boston event: March 5, 1770 : MASSACRE
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Goad : INCITE
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Decorative scarf : STOLE
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Whitewash : LIME
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Shebat's successor : ADAR
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West Indian native : CARIB
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Tall and awkward : GANGLY
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A troupial : ORIOLE
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Lessee : RENTER
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Skoal, etc. : TOASTS
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Small suitcases : VALISES
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A Judd : NAOMI
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Argon, e.g. : GAS
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Sagging : ALOP
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CLIX trisected : LIII
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Ham it up : EMOTE
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"I have ___ for the future ... ": Hoover : NOFEARS
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Madonna book : SEX
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Poetic contraction : OER
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Horn: Comb. form : CERAT
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Stared angrily : GLOWERED
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Employ : HIRE
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Jodie Foster's "Little Man ___" : TATE
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Alfred E. Neuman's magazine : MAD
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Nocturnal African primate : GALAGO
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Mangle user : IRONER
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Chaste : VESTAL
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All : ENTIRE
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Mutually determined : AGREED
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Result of fallibility : ERROR
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Other, in Orly : AUTRE
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Hibernia : EIRE
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Summit : APEX
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Whitney of gin fame : ELI
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Poor grade : DEE
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___ Fellow : ODD

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 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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