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Tangredi
Tangredi

New York Times, Monday, November 5, 1984

25-Across : Mystery

Author:
Tangredi
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Missing: { F J K Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 54, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Tangredi has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,781
Across
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"___ dien," motto for Prince Charles : ICH
4
Viper : ASP
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Game of strategy : CHESS
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Scholarly : ERUDITE
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Bring to life : CREATE
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Makes over, as a house : REMODELS
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Beat in a footrace : OUTRAN
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Type of fighter plane : MIG
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Rules : REIGNS
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F.D.R. program : NRA
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Jet-engine housing : POD
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Hamilton's Broadway hit: 1941 : ANGELSTREET
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Mystery : ENIGMA
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Tu + tu : VOI
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Home base, to von Braun : ERDE
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"Gloria ___," a doxology : PATRI
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Botch : MESSUP
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Anatevka's matchmaker : YENTE
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Razor accessory : STROP
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Like some grins : TOOTHY
38
Preprandial prayer : GRACE
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Look over : SCAN
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Vegetable : PEA
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Fuel, to a Londoner : PETROL
46
Kirkland's Broadway hit: 1933 : TOBACCOROAD
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Unit of energy : ERG
50
S.A. port, informally : RIO
51
Of the main artery : AORTAL
52
Explosive stuff : TNT
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Radcliffe graduate : ALUMNA
55
Connoisseurs of beauty : ESTHETES
58
Lessee : TENANT
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C. 1000 B.C.-A.D. 100 : IRONAGE
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In a strange way : ODDLY
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Prefix for thesis : SYN
62
Law, to Lucretius : LEX
Down
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Suffix for front : IER
2
Amati bailiwick : CREMONA
3
Climatological concern : HUMIDITY
4
Succor : AID
5
Breastbones : STERNA
6
Pequod's co-owner : PELEG
7
Outer layer : CRUST
8
All ___ up (excited) : HET
9
Breadwinner : EARNER
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Gazed : STARED
11
Byrd-Eagleton milieu : SENATE
13
Lad in a Terhune book : DOG
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Be composed (of) : CONSIST
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Equipment for a forty-niner : SIEVE
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Having a high sheen : GLOSSY
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Vigor : PEP
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Type of acid : AMINO
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Formal account : REPORT
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Scotland's ___ Green : GRETNA
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Shooting star : METEOR
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Pressed : URGED
33
Outer garment : TOPCOAT
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Type of school : PARENTAL
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He wrote "Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands" : HARTE
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Entourage : CORTEGE
40
Actress Taina : ELG
41
Prefix for sphere : STRATO
42
Wound : COILED
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Be plentiful : ABOUND
45
Trifling : PALTRY
47
Shrewd : CANNY
48
Desert sight : OASIS
52
Hamilton bill : TEN
54
Evil: Fr. : MAL
56
Sweetie : HON
57
Comfort's "The Joy of ___" : SEX

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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