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Charles M. Deber
Charles M. Deber

ADVISORY: WATCH YOUR STEPS

New York Times, Sunday, October 10, 1993

47-Across : STEP DOWN: 4

Author:
Charles M. Deber
Editor:
Mel Taub
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 144, Blocks: 76, Avg Word Len: 5.07, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 557 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 118, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 17
Charles M. Deber has 18 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 20 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 16,042
Across
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Green gemstone : JADE
5
Of the congregation : LAIC
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Suppress : ELIDE
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END: STEP UP : HETOP
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Orsk's river : URAL
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Cato's transactions : ACTA
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Horse who got the gait : PACER
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Clientele : TRADE
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Different's antonym : SAME
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One's own case : POSSESSIVE
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Pulmonary cracklings : RALES
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STEP DOWN: 2 : TBECA
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Va. city or river : ROANOKE
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Proximal : CLOSEST
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U, e.g. : TURN
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Appoints : NAMES
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Bean curd : TOFU
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Former Conn. Governor Ella ___ : GRASSO
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___ Kippur : YOM
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Road-map no. : RTE
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Cocktail crustacean : SHRIMP
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"Wolf Man" Chaney : LON
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STEP DOWN: 4 : EYOUVEH
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Heads for a landing : DESCENDS
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Six to an inning : OUTS
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Caustic salt : ALKALI
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STEP UP: 7 : NDREA
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An Ala. neighbor : FLA
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Turkish chief : AGHA
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Gorcey and Durocher : LEOS
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Couples : TWAINS
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Diminutive gal? : LIL
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Playwright Wilder : THORNTON
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Sometimes they're loaded : BASES
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Forty-niner's stakeout : CLAIM
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Full of streaks : LINY
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STEP UP: 5 : RSOCK
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Betel or coconut : PALM
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At large : LOOSE
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Goethe's soul seller : FAUST
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Restorative; soothing : BALSAMIC
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Finnish leading lady Taina ___ : ELG
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Not quite : ALMOST
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City on the Tevere : ROMA
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Fabricated : MADE
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Clay, today : ALI
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STEP UP: 3 : LLUPY
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Sand in "A Song to Remember": 1945 : OBERON
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Target of Cain's mutiny? : ABEL
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Gorilla suit, e.g. : DISGUISE
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STEP DOWN: 6 : MITISNT
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Long.'s partner : LAT
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Arrangements : SETUPS
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Q-U filler : RST
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Wall Street watchdog agcy. : SEC
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Merman and Mertz : ETHELS
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Deuces : TWOS
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Schwartzenegger types : HEMEN
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Camembert's kin : BRIE
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Lars ___, king of Clusium : PORSENA
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Power-plant apparatus : REACTOR
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STEP DOWN: 8 : METOS
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At full speed : AMAIN
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Moses, Rousseau et al. : PRIMITIVES
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Force : DINT
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A ___ dozen : DIMEA
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Made of a hard wood : OAKEN
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Mini-container : VIAL
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Tars' saint : ELMO
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BEGIN: STEP UP : START
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Cattails, e.g. : REEDS
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MacDonald's co-star : EDDY
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Profound : DEEP
Down
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BEGIN: STEP DOWN : JUST
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Desert steed : ARAB
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Title for Agatha Christie : DAME
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Picks a pol : ELECTS
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When you stand, it's gone : LAP
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Big tree-to-be : ACORN
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" ... thinking makes ___": Shak. : ITSO
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Lady-killers : CASANOVAS
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Downs or salts : EPSOM
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Philanthropist Albert of Mary : LASKER
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Most chilling : ICIEST
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Part of R&D : DEV
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Put up : ERECT
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STEP UP: 8 : HTROFHCA
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Entry removal : ERASURE
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"Leatherstocking" piece : TALE
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Lyric poems : ODES
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Aphid, to a fruit tree : PEST
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Glossy finish : ENAMEL
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STEP DOWN: 3 : AUSE
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Setbacks : LOSSES
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Income for 62 Across : ROYALTY
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Exult maliciously : GLOAT
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Unrefined : ROUGH
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Literary compiler : ANTHOLOGIST
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Territory of NW Canada : YUKON
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Murphy or Fisher : EDDIE
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Not fireproof : INFLAMMABLE
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LX years after Columbus's first voyage : MDLII
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Sacred song : PSALM
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Fat watcher's spread : OLEO
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STEP DOWN: 5 : HITBOTTOM
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Sea eagles : ERNS
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Agra garments : SARIS
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STEP UP: 6 : NASK
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Mil. support person of W.W. II : WAC
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Compass pt. : NNE
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En tout ___ (in any event) : CAS
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Wooly S.A. ruminant : LLAMA
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STEP UP: 4 : RUOY
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Draft agcy. : SSS
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City official : PLANNER
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Sleuth's clues : LEADS
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Kukla's co-star : OLLIE
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Bad colds : FLUS
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Bavarian river : AMPER
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Eyewash acid : BORIC
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Eighth-century B.C. prophet : AMOS
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Just perfect : IDEAL
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Bretons and Welsh : CELTS
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Actress Skipworth : ALISON
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Having a good memory : RETENTIVE
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STEP UP: 2 : LUPWENAT
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Halve an angle : BISECT
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Having more nerve : GUTSIER
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STEP DOWN: 7 : TTIM
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Oscine bird : SHRIKE
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Rained cats and dogs : TEEMED
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Took advice : HEEDED
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Flavor : SAPOR
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Reservoir conduits : MAINS
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Moola : BREAD
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Kneeguards : PADS
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Fail to do : OMIT
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Ending for cyclo : RAMA
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Contemporary of Horace : OVID
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Mah-jongg piece : TILE
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"Don't tread ___" (Motto of a 1775 snake flag) : ONME
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END: STEP DOWN : STOP
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Actress Charlotte ___ : RAE
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Artful : SLY

Answer summary:
15 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 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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