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Joan DeRosso
Joan DeRosso

TWO-WAY MIDDLES

New York Times, Sunday, April 5, 1970

81-Across : Places

Author:
Joan DeRosso
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 74, Avg Word Len: 5.24, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 578 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 136, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 18
Joan DeRosso has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Original solution grid had SANDE at 55-Across instead of SANDS and AREE at 43-Down instead of ARES; corrected this.

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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,540
Across
1
Shepherd of Tekoa : AMOS
5
Something for Garcia : MESSAGE
12
Quartz : JASPER
18
Familiar, old style : COUTH
20
Arranged; disarranged : SETUPSET
21
___ Thule : ULTIMA
22
Extreme : ULTRA
23
One who says "I do" : PROMISER
24
Whirl past : SPINBY
25
Long cloaks : PELISSES
27
D'Annunzio's inamorata : DUSE
28
Flu symptoms : ACHES
29
Spanish eights : OCHOS
30
Turn away : AVERT
32
Incited, as a dog : SICKED
34
Articulated : SPOKEN
36
Draft horse : SHIRE
37
Thailand's neighbor : MALAYA
38
Codlike fish : HAKES
39
Cautious : CHARY
40
Softens : TAMES
41
Genetic initials : DNA
44
Golf club : IRON
45
Twisted : WRUNG
46
___ order : OUTOF
47
Mast : SPAR
48
Cassowary's cousin : EMU
49
Subdue; baton stroke : BEATDOWNBEAT
51
Telegram : WIRE
52
Take off : SATIRIZE
54
Maple genus : ACER
55
Beaches : SANDS
56
Beak membrane : CERE
57
Lighter : PALER
59
Bearing : MIEN
61
Zeus's blood : ICHOR
64
Spring beer : BOCK
65
Scales : BALANCES
69
Mastwood : POON
70
Impend; aftermath of sorts : OVERHANGOVER
74
Stop ___ dime : ONA
75
Aria : SOLO
76
Small change : CENTS
77
Avifauna : ORNIS
78
Complacent : SMUG
79
Poets' early days : ELD
80
Imparts : LENDS
81
Places : LIEUS
82
Metric unit : STERE
83
German craft : UBOATS
85
Portions : DOSES
86
Dental problem : CARIES
87
Forks' tablemates : SPOONS
88
Did a hair job : WAVED
89
Interrupt : CUTIN
90
Community character : ETHOS
91
English composer : ARNE
92
Le Mans events : CARRACES
95
Pretty girl, familiarly : LOOKER
97
Arrive with a bar : GOTINGOT
100
Reef : ATOLL
101
Illinois city : MOLINE
102
Some British students : ETONIANS
103
Island near Zanzibar : PEMBA
104
Most strange : ODDEST
105
Thickly : DENSELY
106
Believe : DEEM
Down
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___ of good cheer : ACUP
2
Breakwater : MOLE
3
View, and be careful : OUTLOOKOUT
4
Afflicted : STRICKEN
5
Longitude lines: Abbr. : MERS
6
W. W. II initials : ETO
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Everything : SUM
8
Leggy : SPIDERY
9
Encourage : ASSURE
10
Alluvium : GEEST
11
French verb : ETRE
12
Menu word : JUS
13
Andes animals : ALPACAS
14
Troublesome : STICKY
15
Fool with a bowling target : PINHEADPIN
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Plant : EMBED
17
Beams : RAYS
19
Minces : HASHES
20
Goddess of hope : SPES
26
Offspring : SON
30
Lend ___ : AHAND
31
Zodiac sign : VIRGO
32
Apia's area : SAMOA
33
"___ my heart in ... " : ILEFT
34
Recoils : SHIES
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City in Italy : PARMA
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"On the Beach" author : SHUTE
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Cornelia, for one : MATER
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Fad : CRAZE
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Potato : TUBER
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Ointment : NARD
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Greek god : ARES
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Milldam : WEIR
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Quondam : ONCE
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Proust man : SWANN
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Uncle Remus word : BRER
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___ straight line : WALKA
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Image: Prefix : ICONO
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Scorch : SEAR
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Brest and Boston : PORTS
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German exclamations : ACHS
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Eur. thrush : MAVIS
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St. Pierre and others. : ILES
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___ dixit : IPSE
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Composed : COOL
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Rob, and support : HOLDUPHOLD
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Divers' affliction : BENDS
65
Premium : BONUS
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Enter with a paycheck : COMEINCOME
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Accustom: Var. : ENURE
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Wise ones : SAGES
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"Neptune's ___" : OCEAN
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Outlets : VENTS
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Static : NOISE
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Avarice : GREED
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Channeled : STRIATED
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Undoes : LOOSENS
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Hippie park events : LOVEINS
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Petty ruler : SATRAP
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Man of odds : BOOKIE
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French revolutionist : DANTON
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Nasty one : CUR
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Endured : STOOD
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Penned : WROTE
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Alley dwellers : CATS
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Roper : ELMO
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Word on a brandy bottle : AGED
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Pika : CONY
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Bohemian river : ELBE
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Bridge bid : SLAM
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Inactive: Abbr. : RET
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Never: Ger. : NIE
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Relative of qt. : GAL

Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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