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Marston
Marston

New York Times, Tuesday, October 26, 1976

51-Across : Sounds of exhaustion

Author:
Marston
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.72, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 307 (avg 1.67)
Open Squares: 50, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 4 (2 double stacks), Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9 Grid has duplicate clues.
Marston has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,936
Across
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Pasture sound : BAA
4
Sine ___ : DIE
7
Nautical hazard : SHOAL
12
Man's friend : ENGLISHSHEEPDOG
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Man's friends : GERMANSHEPHERDS
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Wizard's Park : MENLO
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Picnic visitors : ANTS
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Turkish leader : AGA
21
Dawn goddess : EOS
22
Sacks: Abbr. : BGS
23
Reverence : AWE
24
All-America name : CAMP
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Greet with a friendly tail : WAG
27
Option: Abbr. : ALT
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Cockney's castle : OME
30
Like dismal skies : GRAY
31
French ___ : POODLE
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Man's motley friend : MONGREL
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Children's friends : PUPPIES
38
Man's nonfriends : BITERS
39
Bistro : CAFE
40
Delaware or Red : GAP
41
Food scrap : ORT
42
Sandy's greeting : ARF
43
Gainsay : DENY
44
Latin case: Abbr. : ABL
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Explosive : TNT
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___ relief : BAS
48
Roman 1011 : MXI
49
Both: Prefix : AMBI
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Sounds of exhaustion : PANTS
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Man's friends : SIBERIANHUSKIES
57
Man's friend : GOLDENRETRIEVER
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Like a teenager's room : MESSY
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Wine quality : SEC
60
Epoch : ERA
Down
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Entreat : BEG
2
Wind: Prefix : ANEM
3
Gentlemen's, for one : AGREEMENT
4
Rings up : DIALS
5
"There ___ justice" : ISNO
6
Questioning words : EHS
7
Calendar abbr. : SEPT
8
Nervous laughs : HEHS
9
Unclose, to poets : OPE
10
Play to ___ (tie) : ADRAW
11
Woodsy home : LODGE
13
Between K and Q : LMNOP
14
Like some dog stories : SHAGGY
15
Busybodies : HENS
16
Juliette Low's org. : GSA
22
False idol : BAAL
23
On : ATOP
24
Search thoroughly : COMB
25
Mine, in Paris : AMOI
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Force away from : WREST
27
In ___ of smoke : APUFF
28
Move easily : LOPE
30
Nonfriend's warning : GRRR
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Kind of tract : DIGESTIVE
33
Incline : LEAN
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Discover : ESPY
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Earth study: Abbr. : GEOL
37
Parcel's mate : PART
39
___ corps : CANINE
43
Thanks, in Bonn : DANKE
44
Self-evident truth : AXIOM
45
Authoritative work : BIBLE
46
Ski lift : TBAR
47
Fundamental : BASIC
48
Memo: Abbr. : MSG
49
Greek god : ARES
50
"Eeny, meeny, ___ ... " : MINY
51
Like driven snow : PURE
52
Prophet : SEER
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Sullivan et al. : EDS
55
Altitudes: Abbr. : HTS
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Mrs., in Barcelona : SRA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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