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Janet R. Bender
Janet R. Bender

New York Times, Tuesday, April 20, 1993

9-Across : Solar year's excess over lunar year

Author:
Janet R. Bender
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { K }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Janet R. Bender has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 27 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,869
Across
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Which was to be done: Lat. abbr. : QEF
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Toscanini's birthplace : PARMA
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Solar year's excess over lunar year : EPACT
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Rubber tree : ULE
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Ancient Greek theater : ODEON
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Moore's "___ Rookh" : LALLA
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Not well : ILL
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Ex-Yankee manager from Tex.? : DALLASGREEN
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Story : TALE
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Honkers : GEESE
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Obstacle : SNAG
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Bit attachments : REINS
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Long-running NBC sitcom : CHEERS
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Actress from N.C.? : CHARLOTTERAE
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Mrs. Gorbachev : RAISA
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Trick follower : STER
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North Pole worker : ELF
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Hockey's Bobby : ORR
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That girl : SHE
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Philippine native : ATI
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Basketball's Manute : BOL
43
Unseld of N.B.A. fame : WES
44
Protective covering : TARP
46
Beldam : CRONE
48
Actor from Ariz.? : RIVERPHOENIX
51
Novel by Helen Hunt Jackson : RAMONA
54
Make happy : ELATE
55
Grows old : AGES
56
Twangy : NASAL
58
Throw for a loop : FAZE
62
Tennis player from Tex.? : TRACYAUSTIN
65
Toast topper : JAM
66
Domingo, for one : TENOR
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Thin; piping : REEDY
68
Black cuckoo : ANI
69
Affirmative replies : YESES
70
Wild buffalo of India : ARNEE
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Macerate : RET
Down
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Stop : QUIT
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Singer Fitzgerald : ELLA
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Toppled : FELL
4
Pea holder : POD
5
Slow ballet dance : ADAGIO
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Let up : RELENT
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Annoys : MOLESTS
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Anecdotal collections : ANAS
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Actress Taina ___ : ELG
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Zoroastrian in India : PARSEE
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Coeur d'___, Idaho : ALENE
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Unclouded : CLEAR
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Distinctive flavors : TANGS
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Hidden : SECRET
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Goofs : ERRS
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Tissue component : ELASTIN
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Mutton stew : HARICOT
28
What certain braggarts eat : CROW
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A lagomorph : HARE
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Songs : AIRS
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Letters at LAX : ETA
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Poet's black : EBON
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Burt's wife : LONI
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Move a muscle : FLEX
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Caribbean capital : HAVANA
40
Before, to the Bard : ERE
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Laundry employee : PRESSER
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Coral formation : REEF
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Fatty Arbuckle's real first name : ROSCOE
49
Typewriter part : PLATEN
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Bromine compound, e.g. : HALIDE
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Dilapidated : RATTY
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See eye to eye : AGREE
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Ways' companion : MEANS
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Emanation : AURA
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Partly open : AJAR
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Author Grey : ZANE
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Give off : EMIT
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Cal. units : YRS
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Actress Carrie : NYE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 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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