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Beresin
Beresin

New York Times, Thursday, November 3, 1977

44-Across : Dried up

Author:
Beresin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 249 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Beresin has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,309
Across
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Naves : HUBS
5
Countenance : ABET
9
Life of the party : RIOT
13
Man, e.g. : ISLE
14
Savage : FERAL
16
Con man : ANTI
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Sad, mad dad, in drama : LEAR
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Guanaco's cousin : LLAMA
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"The fat ___ the fire" : ISIN
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Selective events on campus : TRUEFALSETESTS
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What Juliet asked Romeo to doff : NAME
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Eatery : DINER
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Narcotic : OPIATE
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Lump : NODULE
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Cortices : RINDS
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Become prevalent : SETIN
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Turner's org. : CIA
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Area near the chancel : APSE
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Boys in a schola : PUERI
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A.B.A. members : ATTS
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Tennis official's call : LET
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Streisand role : FANNY
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Dorm sound : SNORE
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Stalk, to a botanist : STIPES
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Dried up : SEARED
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U.S. petroleum center : TULSA
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Stone paving block : SETT
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Type of exam : MULTIPLECHOICE
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Tamper with checks : KITE
54
Ingenuous : NAIVE
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Ellington's was "indigo" : MOOD
56
Jack Frost, in a way : ICER
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Classic von Stroheim film : GREED
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Lay ___ (flatter) : ITON
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Stack role : NESS
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Whistling material : TUNE
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Picnic ham : CALA
Down
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Symbol of satiety : HILT
2
Addict : USER
3
Blue, in Bonn : BLAU
4
Swain song : SERENADE
5
Blazing : AFLAME
6
Prom queen : BELLE
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You were: Lat. : ERAS
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Made the wild mild : TAMED
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Reached by radio : RAISED
10
One who makes the grade : INSTRUCTOR
11
Elevator man : OTIS
12
Type of type : TIN
15
Where Caesar flourishes today : LATINII
21
Waller or Domino : FATS
22
Town northeast of Cincinnati : ENON
25
Ph.D. exams : ORALS
26
Lab tube : PIPET
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M.I.T., F.I.T., and R.P.I. : INSTITUTES
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Poisonous Chilean shrub : LITRE
30
Slacked off : EASED
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Oldest settler in the west : SUN
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Poetic time : EEN
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Essay : TRY
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Like a so-so grade : PASSING
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Describing some premed studies : ANATOMIC
40
Fabric made without weaving : FELT
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Mr. Pecksniff : SETH
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Infants, at times : PULERS
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Withdraw : SECEDE
46
Dissociated : APART
47
Junior-high grade : SEVEN
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First space travelers from U.S. : MICE
49
Place : LIEU
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Jot : IOTA
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Kind of cat or customer : COOL
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Best of the movies : EDNA
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Kissing cousins : KIN

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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