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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Thursday, October 28, 1982

49-Across : Makes less dense

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,042
Across
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Fellow : CHAP
5
"___ mio" : OSOLE
10
"A ___, of golden daffodils" : HOST
14
Hawaii's ___ Bowl : HULA
15
Eucharistic plate : PATEN
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A. B. Giamatti is its president : YALE
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Algae product : AGAR
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Went over like ___ balloon : ALEAD
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Greek porch : STOA
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"Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1" : WHISTLERSMOTHER
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Galena and hematite : ORES
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Subdue : TAME
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Rubinstein and Rubinstein : PIANISTS
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Sea-horse rider : NEREID
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Spanish article : LOS
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Cheat, in a way : SCALP
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Simpleton : NINNY
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Echidna's diet : ANTS
39
Lamb and Kazan : ELIAS
41
Prolific auth. : ANON
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Michelangelo work : PIETA
44
Yawl's cousin : KETCH
46
___, deux, trois : UNE
47
Vamooses : SCRAMS
49
Makes less dense : RAREFIES
51
Pro ___ : RATA
53
Vasco da ___ : GAMA
54
Uncle Sam's forerunner : BROTHERJONATHAN
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Hamilton, to G.W. : AIDE
62
Relied on for support : LEANT
63
Baltic island : AERO
64
South African colonist : BOER
65
Latin-American coin : MEDIO
66
Legal claim : LIEN
67
Japanese outcasts : ETAS
68
City on the Allegheny : OLEAN
69
Gaelic : ERSE
Down
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Bit of 'baccy : CHAW
2
Downs : HUGH
3
Jai ___ : ALAI
4
Weems : PARSON
5
Shimmer with colors : OPALESCE
6
Spiel or pitch : SALESTALK
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To take off, in Rouen : OTER
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Most insignificant : LEAST
9
Minstrel-show joker : ENDMAN
10
Uncontrollable emotion : HYSTERIA
11
___ of allegiance : OATH
12
Dark-colored plum : SLOE
13
___ apart (rend) : TEAR
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Speaker of baseball : TRIS
22
Augury : OMEN
25
Falls with a flat sound : PLAPS
26
Column style : IONIC
27
Garden plant : ASTER
28
Foxier : SLIER
30
Accidie : ENNUI
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___ ear and ... : INONE
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Units of force : DYNES
35
Region in S.A. : PATAGONIA
38
When they shoot, runners scoot : STARTERS
40
A city or former governor of Pa. : SCRANTON
43
Oriental servant : AMAH
45
Blood: Comb. form : HEMA
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Sailors' patron : STELMO
50
Femme ___ : FATALE
52
Staggering : AREEL
54
Paul Bunyan's blue ox : BABE
55
Wild scene : RIOT
56
Ancient theaters : ODEA
57
Become weary : JADE
58
Legatee : HEIR
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Mars, to Melanthus : ARES
60
Word followed by such : NONE

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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