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Frances Hansen
Frances Hansen

New York Times, Monday, February 29, 1988

43-Across : Mongrel

Author:
Frances Hansen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { W Z }, Scrabble score: 322 (avg 1.69)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Frances Hansen has 81 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 40 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 13,992
Across
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Related : AKIN
5
Agile : SPRY
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Attacks : HASAT
14
Golconda : MINE
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Staunch : TRUE
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Chicago terminal : OHARE
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Soar over a bar : POLEVAULT
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Early Astor's collection : PELTS
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High ___ kite : ASA
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Alençon's department : ORNE
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Part of U.S.A. : STATES
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Plunge into the ether : SKYDIVE
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Now, in the barrio : AHORA
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Underfooting for Fleming : ICE
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Game one stoops to play : SQUATTAG
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Wallflower's opposite : BELLE
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Batter : POUND
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"___ Ding Dong Daddy ... " : IMA
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Skating stunt : AXEL
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French assembly : SENAT
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Loutish one : BOOR
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"Fat farm" : SPA
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Community folkways : MORES
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Rawboned : LANKY
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First sergeants, to G.I.'s : TOPKICKS
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Mongrel : CUR
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Lack of good sense : FOLLY
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Bounded over a barrier : HURDLED
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Conditional release : PAROLE
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Adriatic seaport : BARI
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Clay today : ALI
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Footless lot : APODA
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Mighty spring : BROADJUMP
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Severity : RIGOR
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Old tar : SALT
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One of Cleopatra's maids : IRAS
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Do a lawn job : RESOD
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"The African Queen" scriptwriter : AGEE
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"And ___ a lightfoot lad": Housman : MANY
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Oscar-awarding org. : AMPAS
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Newsstand : KIOSK
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Dental art : INLAY
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Society-page word : NEE
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Overdo a diet : STARVE
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Clip hedges : PRUNE
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Hoyle edict : RULE
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Still : YET
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Lively amphibian : HOPTOAD
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Have ___ (show mercy) : AHEART
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Dancing movement : SALTATION
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TV's Johnson : ARTE
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Hardy lass : TESS
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Express an opinion : VOICE
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Move boxcars about : SHUNT
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Popular pickle : DILL
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Cool colors : AQUAS
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Units of sound : SONES
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Running wild : AMOK
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Cooper or Hart : GARY
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Flax or hemp : BAST
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Montreal player : EXPO
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Goes over another's head : LEAPFROGS
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Cheerful; brisk : PERKY
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Plinth : SOCLE
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Minstrel : BARD
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President Fillmore : MILLARD
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Shockingly vivid : LURID
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Striped antelope : KOODOO
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Man of the cloth : CURATE
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Caucasian, in Hawaii : HAOLE
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Tierney classic: 1944 : LAURA
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Famed violinist : ELMAN
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"___ Doodle," 1937 song : DIPSY
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Young salmon : PARR
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" ... Baked in ___" : APIE
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Vaunt : BRAG
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Jamboree gp. : BSA
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Huck's raft-sharer : JIM

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 6 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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