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Mary M. Murdoch
Mary M. Murdoch

USE YOUR BEANIE

New York Times, Sunday, October 27, 1991

42-Across : Pompey's head

Author:
Mary M. Murdoch
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 144, Blocks: 78, Avg Word Len: 5.32, Missing: { F J Q X Z }
Open Squares: 115, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 14, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12
Mary M. Murdoch has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,328
Across
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Fine horse : ARAB
5
Freshwater fish : BREAM
10
Trammel material : MESH
14
Soupçon : DRAM
18
Agouti's cousin : PACA
19
___ bell (seemed familiar) : RANGA
20
Russian collective : ARTEL
22
Baltic island : AERO
23
Guinness-Davis film: 1959 : THESCAPEGOAT
25
"The Grass Harp" writer : TRUMANCAPOTE
27
Diminutive suffixes : ETTES
28
Greek poet who rode a dolphin : ARION
30
The mind: Comb. form : NOO
31
Accountant's listing : NETLOSS
34
Never ___ moment : ADULL
35
Menlo Park family : EDISONS
39
Tryon novel, with "The" : OTHER
40
Redford, e.g. : BLOND
41
Dunderhead : ASS
42
Pompey's head : CAPUT
43
Agnes, in Acapulco : INES
44
Garner-McQueen film: 1963 : THEGREATESCAPE
48
Chinese pagoda : TAA
49
News windups : RECAPS
50
Lineup on a fine report card : AAAA
51
Foe of S. Grant : ELEE
52
Argot : CANT
53
Erode : EAT
54
Book parts : SPINES
56
Kind of consciousness or book : CLASS
57
City NW of Waco : HICO
58
Stem cutters : SNIPPERS
60
Ripples : PURLS
62
Chair worker : CANER
63
Goes off course : VEERS
64
Hock and sack : WINES
65
Williwaw : STORM
67
Rome's Spanish ___ : STEPS
69
___ of Good Hope : THECAPE
70
"Show Me ___ Go Home" : THEWAYTO
73
Santa's sounds : HOHO
74
Kind of help : HIRED
76
Straggle : SPRAWL
78
Plump roasting fowl : CAPON
79
Hematite and galena : ORES
80
Ardor : ELAN
81
Amonasro's daughter : AIDA
82
Japanese admiral et al. : ITOS
83
Hyson, e.g. : TEA
84
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Archibald of N.B.A. fame : NATE
89
Type of vb. : IRR
90
Miss Hogg of Tex. : IMA
91
Like some fruit : DRIED
92
Dostoyevsky novel, with "The" : IDIOT
93
Made jottings : NOTATED
95
___ means (certainly) : BYALL
96
Family of an actor in the "Godfather" films : PACINOS
98
Witticism : MOT
99
Site of a 1431-43 council : BASLE
100
Ky. college : BEREA
101
Talents : CAPABILITIES
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Albany or Austin, e.g. : STATECAPITAL
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Major Hoople's "drat" : EGAD
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Framework : CADRE
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___ Baleares, off España : ISLAS
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Jazz singer Simone : NINA
114
Lacoste of tennis fame : RENE
115
Suburb of Paris : ISSY
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Leaning : ATILT
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Apprehend clearly : KNOW
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Fitting : APT
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Stadium sound : RAH
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Stich specialty : ACE
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Lacking foundation : BASELESS
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Pitcher Saberhagen and namesakes : BRETS
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Fads : RAGES
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A son of Seth : ENOS
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Vizier's superior : AGA
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Sunday performer in Mexico : MATADOR
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Belafonte hit : MATILDA
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Cedric ___ (Little Lord Fauntleroy) : ERROL
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Floor : STUN
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Haw's partner : HEM
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Repeated musical passages : DACAPOS
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Auto of yore : REO
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Topic of an Emerson essay : ART
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Cohort of Larry and Curly : MOE
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Constable and Turner paintings : LANDSCAPES
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Policeman, at times : CAPTOR
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Hubbub : NOISE
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Mystical mark : RUNE
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Bêtes ___ : NOIRES
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Of a Sicilian mount : ETNEAN
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Michael Redgrave film: 1946 : THECAPTIVEHEART
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Seaweeds : ALGAE
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Disburdens : EASES
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Walt Whitman poem : OCAPTAINMYCAPTAIN
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Shade : NUANCE
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Part of a turbine : STATOR
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Noggins : BEANS
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Acuminate : TAPER
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They may be split : HAIRS
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Takes effect : TELLS
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Greek resistance force of W.W. II : ELAS
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___-banc (British motor coach) : CHARA
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Goddess of hope : SPES
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Emulated Harvey Birch : SPIED
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Algonquians : CREES
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Cucumbers : PEPOS
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Open a soda bottle : UNCAP
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Monastic symbol : COWL
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"___ was one-and-twenty": Housman : WHENI
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Clupeid fishes : SHADS
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Amerinds of N.M. : TEWAS
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"A ___ the Dark," 1964 film : SHOTIN
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See 9 Down : TORERO
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Farm mach. : TRAC
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True's partner : TRIED
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Ultra : TOOTOO
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Beginnings : ONSETS
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Tightly sealed : HERMETIC
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Long series of woes : ILIAD
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Screen part : PANEL
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Black pigment : INDIAINK
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Where Congress meets, with "the" : CAPITOL
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Long series of wanderings : ODYSSEY
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Russian river : URAL
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Coal region of central Europe : SILESIA
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Arctic sight : ICECAP
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Nylon constituent : AMIDE
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Max, Buddy and Bugs : BAERS
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Part of a rose : PETAL
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"There's no music in ___ ...": Ruskin : AREST
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Orders : BIDS
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A Crosby-Hope destination : BALI
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Antic : CAPER
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Ripen : AGE
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Disallow : BAN
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Mai ___ (rum drink) : TAI
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Hissed reproof : TST
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Part of pewter : TIN
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Up: Comb. form : ANO
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Nomologist's forte : LAW

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 16 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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