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Nikki Tenfelde
Nikki Tenfelde

New York Times, Friday, October 3, 1980

38-Across : Joseph Smith was one

Author:
Nikki Tenfelde
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { B J K Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Nikki Tenfelde has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,287
Across
1
Consort : MATE
5
Barter : SWAP
9
Ruddy duck : SPRIG
14
Express : EMIT
15
Unnatural desire to eat chalk, ashes, etc. : PICA
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"What is ___ is mine" : THINE
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Thought transference : TELEPATHY
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Figure on a quarter : EAGLE
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What spellbinders do : ENTRANCE
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Bogs; marshes : WASHES
22
Close by : NIGH
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Board for Bruegel : PALETTE
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Bondman : THRALL
27
Fissure : REFT
28
Eighth of a piece of eight : REAL
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He discovered Greenland : ERICTHERED
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Integument : ARIL
36
Self-love : EGO
37
President of France: 1954-59 : COTY
38
Joseph Smith was one : POLYGAMIST
42
Summon : CITE
43
Caustic : ACID
44
Machine in a textile plant : REELER
46
Adjective for Hawaii : SEAGIRT
50
Pet in "The Yearling" : FAWN
51
Jerusalem's Arch of ___ : PILATE
52
Forte of Crick, Watson and Wilkins : GENETICS
56
Law enforcer in old Rome : EDILE
57
Where Ichabod Crane presided : CLASSROOM
58
" ... ___ go to sea": Gilbert : NEVER
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Sherpa's bête noire : YETI
60
Dictator's phrase : INRE
61
Mother Hubbard : DRESS
62
Balance : REST
63
Transfer : CEDE
Down
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Allot : METE
2
Assent : AMEN
3
Incline : TILT
4
For aeons and aeons and more : ETERNALLY
5
Paillette : SPANGLE
6
Beldam : WITCH
7
Yearn : ACHE
8
Dunner's imperative : PAY
9
Cat burglar's sine qua non : STEALTH
10
Side : PHASE
11
Precise : RIGHT
12
Passage to a culvert : INLET
13
Embdens, e.g. : GEESE
18
Relative of a pipkin : PAIL
21
Bear along buoyantly : WAFT
23
___ Bill, legendary cowboy : PECOS
24
Light carriage : TRAP
25
Paragon : HERO
26
Mudhen : RAIL
27
Obdurate : RIGID
30
Pardon : REMIT
31
Unconventional person : ECCENTRIC
32
Vex : ROIL
33
Mignon's follower : ETTE
34
He wrote "Pulling Your Own Strings" : DYER
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High overshoes : GAITERS
40
Important port in the Crusades : ACRE
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"Sic ___ gloria mundi" : TRANSIT
45
Kids' mothers : EWES
46
What sports do : SPEND
47
Sea duck : EIDER
48
Quick-witted : ALIVE
49
Outbursts, as of laughter : GALES
50
Herculean deeds : FEATS
52
Mirth : GLEE
53
Girl loved by Glaucus : IONE
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Ribbed fabric : CORD
55
Pintail duck : SMEE
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St.-___, seat of a military school : CYR

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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