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Alfio Micci
Alfio Micci

SPOONERIZING

New York Times, Sunday, February 2, 1992

80-Across : Witch bird

Author:
Alfio Micci
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 142, Blocks: 80, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 526 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 114, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
Alfio Micci has 91 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 11 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,426
Across
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Oklahoman : SOONER
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Juliet's family name : CAPULET
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Nail or old plane : SPAD
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Uncompromising : AUSTERE
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Complete : PLENARY
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Ignominy : SHAME
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Moundsman who begins a game? : PARTINGSTITCHER
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River in central India : PURNA
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Rara follower : AVIS
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Dieppe donkeys : ANES
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Cooked in a French oven : ROTI
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Easy gait : CANTER
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Garage worker: Abbr. : MEC
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Growl : GNAR
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Pretty woman : PERI
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Brass player : HORNIST
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Seller's patter? : TAILSSALK
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Disturb : JAR
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"Tell ___ Sweeney!" : ITTO
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Gelid, in Granada : FRIO
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Lug of a jug : EAR
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Chorister's big moment : SOLO
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A voice vote : NAY
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Botanical interstices : AREOLAS
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Wreckage : DEBRIS
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Yule quaff, for short : NOG
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Newsman Donaldson : SAM
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Touring play? : SHOWEDROE
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Way from the heart : AORTA
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Hank or Phoebe of songdom : SNOW
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Paving material : TAR
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Rascals : IMPS
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Sandbars : SHOALS
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Longfellow's bell town : ATRI
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Certain utility conduits? : MASSGAINS
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Shield border : ORLE
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A land was named for him : DISNEY
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Haydn sobriquet : PAPA
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Motorists' org. : AAA
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Halt : STEM
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Thurify : CENSE
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Enjoying great popularity? : HIDINGRYE
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Witch bird : ANI
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Call ___ day : ITA
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Creator of Mrs. Tanqueray : PINERO
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Toward the center : INWARDS
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Actress on "Murphy's Law" : HAN
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Former Austrian Chancellor : RAAB
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Fool : ASS
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If not : ELSE
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D.C. body : CONG
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She wrote "Delta of Venus" : NIN
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January store event? : SITEWHALE
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Liqueur flavoring : ANISEED
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___ en scène (stage setting) : MISE
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Rank above viscount : EARL
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"Nightmare" street : ELM
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Cavorted : ROMPED
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"Look ___ hands!" : MANO
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Capp's ___ the Hyena : LENA
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Star in Serpens : ALYA
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Thin as ___ : ARAIL
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Certain undesirable passengers? : SACKBEATDRIVERS
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Galas : FETES
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Joan of Arc triumphed here : ORLEANS
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Terse : LACONIC
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Biographer Leon : EDEL
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Mountain chains : SIERRAS
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Racial; cultural : ETHNIC
Down
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Urbane : SUAVE
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Courtier in "Hamlet" : OSRIC
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Former Giant's family : OTTS
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In the: It. : NEI
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Verdi opera : ERNANI
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Of sovereignty : REGNAL
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Mil. officers : CPTS
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Ryan's "Love Story" co-star : ALI
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Sea bird : PETREL
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Remove stopple : UNCORK
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Christine of Hollywood : LAHTI
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" ... ___ saw Elba" : EREI
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Son of Odin : TYR
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Miler's footwear : SHUNNINGROOS
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Musical suite : PARTITA
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Pardon : AMNESTY
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"For ___ me as light and life": Burns : DEARTO
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Town in E Mexico : APAM
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Lustrous mineral : SPAR
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Opera by Handel : SERSE
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Long, untapered cigars : CORONAS
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U.K. stirs : GAOLS
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Whittled : PARED
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Golfer Sutton : HAL
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Pedro's uncle : TIO
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Vic's radio wife : SADE
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Mielziner and Stafford : JOS
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Overwrought : FRANTIC
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Compunction : REMORSE
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Basso Cesare : SIEPI
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Syria's President : ASSAD
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Wakashan people of Vancouver Island : AHT
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"___ I," 1924 Gershwin song : SOAM
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Tactical unit : BRIGADE
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"Arrivederci ___" : ROMA
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La-la lead-in : OOH
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Cloak : WRAP
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Violent people : TARTARS
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First Marxist President of Chile : ALLENDE
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Item for Rumpelstiltskin? : WINNINGSPIEL
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Hitch : SNAG
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Rig trucks : SEMIS
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Sir, in India : SAHIB
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Short ride : SPIN
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Regretful-sounding garment : SARI
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Part of i.e. : EST
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Had a yen for : YEARNED
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Author Rand : AYN
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Piqued : IRATE
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Proboscis : NOSE
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"Seven Year Itch" actor : EWELL
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Spider in the kitchen : PAN
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Part of a shandy : ALE
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Gave a roast for : HONORED
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Liven : ANIMATE
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Abet's partner : AID
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Like Sue of songdom : SWEET
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Wine bottle : CARAFE
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Doughnut: Slang : SINKER
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Meteorological line : ISOBAR
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Manipulate : HANDLE
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Biblical landfall : ARARAT
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Wrymouths' cousins : EELS
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Twin crystal : MACLE
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Nicholas Gage book : ELENI
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Sammy Cahn creation : LYRIC
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Neither fem. nor neut. : MASC
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A spouse, in Savoie : MARI
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Highland miss : LASS
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Bard's stream : AVON
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Morse recourse : SOS
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Bambi's aunt : ENA
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"___ bin ein Berliner" : ICH

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 11 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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