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John Greenman
John Greenman

New York Times, Friday, December 17, 1982

25-Across : Biennial plant

Author:
John Greenman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 288 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
John Greenman has 52 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 12 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,092
Across
1
Dieter Jack : SPRAT
6
Gilead's lack : BALM
10
Karate blow : CHOP
14
Opossum's cousin : KOALA
15
Sector : AREA
16
Author Jaffe : RONA
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Dawson Creek-to-Fairbanks highway : ALCAN
18
Prohibitions : BANS
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Exploiter : USER
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Playing second fiddle : TAKINGABACKSEAT
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Otologist's purview : EAR
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Boot-shaped nation : ITALY
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Biennial plant : CELERY
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Canter, e.g. : GAIT
32
Bradley and Moreno : OMARS
33
Near, but not in, the limelight : BACKSTAGE
38
Future date : MMII
39
Free-for-all : MELEE
40
Pompano's relative : SCAD
41
Players behind the line of scrimmage : BACKFIELD
43
Page or LuPone : PATTI
44
Between tenor and soprano : ALTO
45
Piney acres : FOREST
46
Helmsman's command : AVAST
50
Be in the grip of la grippe : AIL
51
Uneasy riders : BACKSEATDRIVERS
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His, to Henri : ALUI
60
Distinctive air : AURA
61
Portage craft : CANOE
62
Credit a source : CITE
63
Fixed payt. : STIP
64
Hardly the hoi polloi : ELITE
65
Alternatives to iced tea : ADES
66
Bugler's blast : TOOT
67
Spring feast : SEDER
Down
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Game using 32 cards : SKAT
2
Negri of the silents : POLA
3
Torment : RACK
4
Half of pelota's other name : ALAI
5
Leather-workers : TANNERS
6
De Brunhoff's pachyderm : BABAR
7
Native of Bahrain : ARAB
8
Musically, a Horne of plenty : LENA
9
One of the gens. : MASC
10
Patisserie layer : CRUST
11
Hebrew prophet : HOSEA
12
Ryan, for one : ONEAL
13
Part of G.O.P. : PARTY
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Kind of blade : GAY
22
Manx's young : KITS
25
Rapunzel's need, after the climb : COMB
26
Poet Lazarus : EMMA
27
Like vestrymen : LAIC
28
Estrada of "CHiPs" : ERIK
29
France: Comb. form : GALLO
30
Earned an A : ACED
31
Tina Turner's partner : IKE
33
Bulbous root : BEET
34
Emperor : TSAR
35
French play segment : ACTE
36
Rods or heaters : GATS
37
Tighten prose : EDIT
39
Wire measure : MIL
42
Taboos, to 1 Across : FATS
43
Regulates : POLICES
45
Douglas or Oregon : FIR
46
Bananalike plant : ABACA
47
Incontestable : VALID
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Shrewd; discerning : ACUTE
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Berlin's "Blue ___": 1927 : SKIES
50
Alter for a new use : ADAPT
52
One of Gotham's rivers : EAST
53
Brougham, e.g. : AUTO
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Minuet part : TRIO
55
Glen : VALE
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City near Tulsa : ENID
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Unthinking repetition : ROTE
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Tea-leaves reader : SEER

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 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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