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Baird
Baird

New York Times, Monday, January 5, 1981

17-Across : Rhythm for Wordsworth

Author:
Baird
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { H J K Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid is asymmetric.
Baird has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,381
Across
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Portions of sugar : LUMPS
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Pig pen : STY
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Place in contact : APPLY
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Resource : ASSET
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Edible seed : PEA
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Street spectacle : RAREE
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Rhythm for Wordsworth : METRE
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Drive forcibly : RAM
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Pa.-N.Y. river : TIOGA
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Rolling lands : PRAIRIES
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Near the center : INNER
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Very small sum : MITE
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Professor's station : LECTERN
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Coat folds : LAPELS
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Dropped : FELL
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Decrease : ABATE
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Cut into parts : SEGMENTED
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Rod : POLE
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Flat bells : GONGS
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Sea eagle : ERNE
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Napoleon's idée fixe : SUPREMACY
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Quartz variety : AGATE
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Scruff : NAPE
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Dug in the garden : SPADED
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Far Eastern skiffs : SAMPANS
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Freshwater fish : DARTERS
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Rich part : CREAM
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Lines from the center : RADII
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Antarctica cape : ADARE
52
Pastoral god : PAN
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French nobleman : COMTE
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Pattern : MODEL
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Exist : ARE
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Edible bulb : ONION
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Basketball strategy : PRESS
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Thing, to an LL.B. : RES
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Some crueler rulers : TSARS
Down
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Diogenes carried one : LAMP
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Consumer : USER
3
Russian river : MSTA
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Outer boundary : PERIMETER
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Barren : STERILE
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Unrestrained outburst : SPREE
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Afternoon parties : TEAS
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Edible root : YAM
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Item in the Constitution : ARTICLE
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Emulate Raphael : PAINT
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Facedown : PRONE
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St. ___, loser at Oriskany: 1777 : LEGER
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Pine : YEARN
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That one's : ITS
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Like a tall chorine : LEGGY
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Shade trees : ELMS
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Indy 500 units : LAPS
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___ Ben Adhem : ABOU
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Touch : PALP
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Barrier : FENCE
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Afternoon TV fare : SOAPS
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Denials : NEGATIONS
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Swap : TRADE
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Write in a diary : ENTER
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Cooper role : DEEDS
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Dillinger downer : GMAN
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Cloisonné and champlevé : ENAMELS
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___ brandy : APRICOT
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Grieving : SAD
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Rascal : SCAMP
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Zeal : ARDOR
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Civil War general : MEADE
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Whittles : PARES
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Melchior and Borge : DANES
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Like snow in Tampa : RARE
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Common level : PAR
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"Angela ___," 1928 song : MIA
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High hill : TOR
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Printing measures : ENS

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

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