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Frances Hansen
Frances Hansen

BON APPÉTIT!

New York Times, Sunday, November 12, 1978

120-Across : Toward the mouth

Author:
Frances Hansen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 74, Avg Word Len: 5.24, Missing: { F J V X }, Scrabble score: 535 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 121, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 5, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10 Grid has duplicate clues.
Frances Hansen has 81 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 40 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,596
Across
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Act that made history : STAMP
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Cousin of an I-bar : HBEAM
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Sponsorship : EGIS
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Colorful fish : OPAH
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Hourly : HORAL
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Well-known Ike : ALIBI
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P-U connection : QRST
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Star of "Sin": 1915 : BARA
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Actress Verdugo : ELENA
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Adorned with long hair : MANED
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Ubangi feeder : UELE
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The "Hungarian Rome" : EGER
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Start of a limerick : ALADYNAMEDISABELWYATT
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Rousseau classic : EMILE
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Hag in "The Faerie Queene" : ATE
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Borrower on property : LIENEE
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Set-in sleeve : RAGLAN
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Wooden pin : SPILE
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Alexander's group : BAND
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Siouan tribesman : OTO
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___-Lautrec : TOULOUSE
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Polka follower : DOT
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Afternoon hrs. : PMS
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More of limerick : SUGGESTEDTOMEANEWDIET
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Ben Adhem : ABOU
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Pate : HEAD
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Relative of a pkwy. : RTE
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"Goodnight" girl : IRENE
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One of the Bears : MAMA
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Actor Davis : OSSIE
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Mme. Swan, in Proust's books : ODETTE
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More of limerick : LETSDRINKWATERSHESAID
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Hilo hellos : ALOHAS
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Broadway hit : ANNIE
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Oodles : TONS
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Massenet opera : MANON
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Kimono adjunct : OBI
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Bellow : ROAR
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Island in a palindrome : ELBA
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More of limerick : ANDEATNOTHINGBUTBREAD
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One of the media: Abbr. : RDO
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Loot : ROB
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Fawning one : ADULATOR
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With "The," another Broadway hit : WIZ
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Church corner : AMEN
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It doesn't pay : CRIME
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Poser : RIDDLE
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Bradley U. site : PEORIA
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City lines : ELS
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Billiards shot : MASSE
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End of limerick : IAMNOTINAHURRYTOTRYIT
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Donkey, in Durango : ASNO
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Stravinsky : IGOR
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Spry, in Dixie : PEART
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Skipper's command : LIETO
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Simon or Diamond : NEIL
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Only : SOLE
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"La ___ è mobile" : DONNA
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Margins : EDGES
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Toward the mouth : ORAD
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French political unit : ETAT
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Günter Grass dwarf : OSKAR
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"Tutu divine" painter : DEGAS
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Mets' home : SHEA
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Road fee : TOLL
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A code we live by : AREA
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Leader slain by Vichy militia: 1944 : MANDEL
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Child's chum : PLAYMATE
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Turkish porter : HAMAL
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Mame's burden : BLAME
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Article for Goethe : EINE
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Not up yet : ABED
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"L'Après-___ d'un faune" : MIDI
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Regard as exactly alike : EQUATE
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Diving bird : GREBE
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Capri, in song : ISLE
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Star-shaped : STELLATE
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Followed orders : OBEYED
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Missionary's concern : PAGAN
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Rugged ridge : ARETE
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Ah Sin's creator : HARTE
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Boys of Barcelona : NINOS
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Hawthorne's birthplace : SALEM
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Race-track sign : WIN
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Ponselle or Bonheur : ROSA
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"A Tale of ___": Swift : ATUB
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Kind of dancer : GOGO
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Fountain treat : SODA
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Squelch; crush : PUTDOWN
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Prefix for bar or gram : ISO
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Scapula or fibula : BONE
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Biblical name meaning "God helps" : UTHAI
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Cobb or Trevino : LEE
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Library device : DATER
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Michelangelo masterpiece : PIETA
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Mind: Comb. form : MENTI
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Traveller or Rosinante : STEED
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Private eye : GUMSHOE
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New York canal : ERIE
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Dilate : WIDEN
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Star's aide : DRESSER
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City in Turkey : ADANA
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"The Second ___ Tanqueray" : MRS
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Capuchin monkey : SAI
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Breastbone : STERNUM
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Cry of discovery : OHO
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Truman's birthplace : LAMAR
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African antelope : ELAND
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Circular painting : TONDO
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Bigwig : NABOB
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Do the cable stitch : KNIT
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Walk like a rooster : STRUT
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"___ you noblest English!" : ONON
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Give the eye to : OGLE
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Arab wear : ABA
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Salacious : LEWD
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Slammer springer : BAIL
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Cutting tool : ADZE
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Formal essay : TREATISE
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Severe : HARSH
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First name in Uganda : IDI
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Trunk : TORSO
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Got one's hackles up : BRISTLED
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Hap or Benedict : ARNOLD
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"O Sole ___" : MIO
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Table wine : CLARET
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Mock : DERIDE
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Upright, e.g. : PIANO
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Sedative, for one : EASER
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"___ vincit amor" : OMNIA
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___ Gay, of W.W. II : ENOLA
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Miss Loy : MYRNA
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Rose essence : ATTAR
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"___ Rhythm" : IGOT
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Hair style : UPDO
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Old cars : REOS
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File's partner : RANK
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Safecracker : YEGG
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Virginia willow : ITEA
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Flip a coin : TOSS

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6 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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