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Tripp
Tripp

New York Times, Saturday, April 21, 1984

25-Across : Arabian gulf

Author:
Tripp
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 257 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Tripp has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,583
Across
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Aid a felon : ABET
5
Escape : EVADE
10
River in W Europe : SAAR
14
Washington Square lass : ROSE
15
Aegean gulf : SAROS
16
Quechuan : INCA
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Knicks' rivals : NETS
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Frozen rain : SLEET
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Type of cloth : LOIN
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Trilogy by Aeschylus : ORESTEIA
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List of things to be done : AGENDA
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Centuries and centuries : EONS
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Arabian gulf : OMAN
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Peasant : CHURL
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"Alcestis" dramatist : EURIPIDES
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McDonald or Colman : RONALD
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Resident of Viborg : DANE
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___ Miss : OLE
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Eleven, in Ecuador : ONCE
39
Exalt : RAISE
41
Phoenician seaport : TYRE
42
Religious org. : SDA
43
Ma Kettle portrayer : MAIN
44
President called Old Buena Vista : TAYLOR
46
"Antigone" dramatist : SOPHOCLES
49
Lady Jane and Joel : GREYS
50
Plato "Symposium" topic : EROS
51
Mitchell's mansion : TARA
53
Conquered : FALLEN
56
Athenian comedist : MENANDER
60
Wheeling's river : OHIO
61
"___ the Body Electric": Bradbury : ISING
63
El Bahr : NILE
64
Pious jargon : CANT
65
Zeal : ARDOR
66
Bearish group of stars : URSA
67
Nigerian group : IBOS
68
Clamant : NOISY
69
Straw beehive : SKEP
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Memorable cartoonist : ARNO
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Dutch South African : BOER
3
Borgia in-law : ESTE
4
Musts for mosaics : TESSERAE
5
To eat, in Emden : ESSEN
6
Traveling bag : VALISE
7
Space : AREA
8
Female rabbit : DOE
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Bistro; café : ESTAMINET
10
Satyrs' kin : SILENI
11
Soon : ANON
12
Astringent : ACID
13
Bombay bigwig : RANA
21
User's fee : TOLL
23
Stare in surprise : GAPE
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Anglo-Saxon currency : ORAS
26
Charles ___, pop singer : CROSS
27
John Wayne film: 1953 : HONDO
28
Open a bottle : UNCAP
30
Commune in NE Italy : UDINE
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Author of "The White Company" : DOYLE
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Hirsch of football fame : ELROY
33
Calchas and Mopsus, e.g. : SEERS
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Severe : DRACONIAN
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Is infirm : AILS
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"Oedipus ___," by 46 Across : TYRANNUS
43
"Mondo Cane" theme song : MORE
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Taj Mahal's city : AGRA
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Slaves of Spartans : HELOTS
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Members of a certain pool : STENOS
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"Twelve ___ Men" : ANGRY
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Primary points : FOCI
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Whaler of fiction : AHAB
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Kind of type or cut : LINO
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Noon, in Neuilly : MIDI
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Actor Bogarde : DIRK
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Other : ELSE
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Harvest : REAP
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B'way message : SRO

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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