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Hallie Parsons
Hallie Parsons
Gerald Parsons
Gerald Parsons

New York Times, Monday, April 11, 1977

36-Across : Capital of ancient Palestine

Author:
Hallie & Gerald Parsons
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,103
Across
1
Rudiments : ABCS
5
Letter or ray : GAMMA
10
Sheep : EWES
14
Blazer : COAT
15
Alongside a ship : ABEAM
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Meat for noisettes : VEAL
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Fine oilstone : HONE
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Chaliapin was one : BASSO
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To be: Lat. : ESSE
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Penetrates : ENTERS
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Looked obliquely : SQUINTED
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U.N. labor body : ILO
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Vases : URNS
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Ring in the new : CELEBRATE
31
Is not free : COSTS
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Stout or porter : ALE
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Capital of ancient Palestine : SAMARIA
38
Skill : ART
39
Calendar abbr. : NOV
40
Plot : CABAL
41
Aye's antonym : NAY
42
Cockney's desire : OPE
43
Tuneful : MELODIC
45
Sesame : TIL
46
Boldness : NERVE
48
Dog or Hamlet : GREATDANE
50
Icelandic literature : EDDA
52
___ de plume : NOM
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Golfing group : FOURSOME
57
Kind of hatch : ESCAPE
60
Prefix with body : ANTI
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Courage : VALOR
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___ Islands, part of the Carolines : TRUK
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Fall faller : LEAF
65
___ Unis : ETATS
66
Seine tributary : OISE
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Wan : ASHY
68
French income : RENTE
69
Cheers : RAHS
Down
1
Have the misery : ACHE
2
Blessing : BOON
3
Kind of arch or bridge : CANTILEVER
4
Historian Henry ___ Commager : STEELE
5
Yaks : GABS
6
Arab's robe : ABA
7
Sailor's meal : MESS
8
Where Romeo met Juliet : MASQUERADE
9
Courtship : AMOUR
10
Yet : EVENSO
11
Occident : WEST
12
Facility : EASE
13
Kane's "Rosebud" : SLED
21
Hijacks : ROBS
23
Ancient Peruvian : INCA
26
Law : CANON
27
Emulate Juliet : ELOPE
28
Word with horse or foot : RACE
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Small drum : TABOR
32
Niña's sister : SANTAMARIA
33
Retinue : TRAIN
34
Mode : STYLE
37
Pelvic bones : ILIA
43
Hospital corpsmen, for short : MEDS
44
Cardboard boxes: Abbr. : CTNS
47
Prove to be true : VERIFY
49
Treat or mend : DOCTOR
51
Kind of sole : DOVER
53
Part-song : FALA
54
Change for a $5 bill : ONES
55
Monument Valley is here : UTAH
56
Zest : ELAN
57
Irish Gaelic : ERSE
58
Word on a door : PUSH
59
Augments : EKES
62
Mel of baseball : OTT

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