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Gayle Dean
Gayle Dean

New York Times, Tuesday, February 12, 1985

32-Across : Dali's homeland

Author:
Gayle Dean
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { B F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has duplicate clues.
Gayle Dean has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 5 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,880
Across
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Solo : ALONE
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As well : ALSO
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Enjoy a quid : CHEW
14
Distributed : DEALT
15
Perches : SITS
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Pedro's "Ahoy!" : HOLA
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"Festina lente" : MAKEHASTESLOWLY
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Here, in Paris : ICI
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Watery fluids : SERA
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Zones : AREAS
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Eliot work : THEWASTELAND
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Director Howard : RON
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Squatter : NESTER
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Dali's homeland : SPAIN
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Bank transaction : LOAN
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Site of the Tell legend : URI
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Berenson's subject : ART
44
Pot item : ANTE
45
Obliterate : ERASE
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Sly : TRICKY
49
Theater sign : SRO
50
Cornmeal mush : HASTYPUDDING
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What a bigwig carries : CLOUT
60
Part : ROLE
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Nothing : NIL
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Make eyes at : OGLE
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Brainstorm : IDEA
68
Violinist Isaac : STERN
69
Brassie, e.g. : WOOD
70
Cabbage; bread : GELT
71
He wrote "Too Late the Phalarope" : PATON
Down
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Come clean : ADMIT
2
Cause filtering : LEACH
3
Jack of old films : OAKIE
4
Mets' div. : NLE
5
Afr. country : ETH
6
Pecuniary resource : ASSET
7
British measure : LITRE
8
Swipe : STEAL
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W.W. II Govt. agency : OSS
10
Combinations of tones : CHORDS
11
Inventor Elias : HOWE
12
Singer Fitzgerald : ELLA
13
What E. B. Browning counted : WAYS
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Org. : ASSN
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"Daily Planet" employee : LANE
24
Formal order : WRIT
25
Tops : AONE
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O'Neill's "___ Christie" : ANNA
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Popular sandwich filler : TUNA
30
Aphrodite's son : EROS
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Liturgy : RITE
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Hit a gnat : SWAT
33
Young salmon : PARR
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Italian wine city : ASTI
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Chaney : LON
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Teammate of Bill Terry : OTT
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Veneration : AWE
40
Negatives : NAYS
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A jerk : NERD
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Trampled : TROD
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Conveyed on a flume : CHUTED
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Petruchio's wife : KATE
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Takes to court : SUES
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Commerce : TRADE
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Hayseed : YOKEL
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Skirt part : PLEAT
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Atlas feature : INSET
55
Explosive, for short : NITRO
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First orbiting American : GLENN
57
Vittles : CHOW
58
Como, to Carlos or Carlo : LAGO
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Frogner Park's locale : OSLO
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U.S.S.R. plane : MIG
64
O. Henry's monogram : WSP
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One ___ time : ATA

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