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Edward Bobb
Edward Bobb

New York Times, Wednesday, April 9, 1986

32-Across : Social unit

Author:
Edward Bobb
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Edward Bobb has 7 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,301
Across
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Great devastation : HAVOC
6
Shield : EGIS
10
Astronaut's agcy. : NASA
14
Scipio, to Hannibal : ENEMY
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Silents siren : VAMP
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Viva voce : ORAL
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Barely getting by : EKING
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Epochal : ERAL
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Had on : WORE
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"Name no one man," e.g. : PALINDROME
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Khayyám : OMAR
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Hitherto, hitherto : ERST
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Adventure-seeking : ERRANT
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French cousin of the F.B.I. : SURETE
30
Mortise mate : TENON
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Social unit : CLAN
33
Former labor leader : ABEL
35
Berm : LEDGE
39
Eddie Fisher hit: 1951 : ANYTIME
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All you out there! : SOLVERS
43
Fundamental : BASIC
44
U.S.C.G. woman : SPAR
46
Utter : EMIT
47
Brava, Mesa or Rica preceder : COSTA
49
Seat given up by a lover in 1936 : THRONE
51
Lead ore : GALENA
54
Area south of Houston St., N.Y.C. : SOHO
56
Genesis donor : ADAM
57
Cairo or Copenhagen : METROPOLIS
63
Nothing, to Lloyd : LOVE
64
Parched : ARID
65
Sourpuss : PRUNE
66
Algerian port : ORAN
67
Hoarfrost : RIME
68
Ukase : EDICT
69
Skin : PELT
70
Maple-tree genus : ACER
71
Bonheur and Ponselle : ROSAS
Down
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Dickens villain : HEEP
2
Singer Paul from Ottawa : ANKA
3
An anagram of live : VEIL
4
Bus preceder : OMNI
5
Young swan : CYGNET
6
Tinker to ___ to Chance : EVERS
7
Strangle : GAROTTE
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Islamic leader : IMAM
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Bad temper : SPLEEN
10
Timely phrase in a Presley hit : NOWORNEVER
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Asset of basil : AROMA
12
A plastic wrapper : SARAN
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On the qui vive : ALERT
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Fond hope : DREAM
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Parkerhouse ___ : ROLL
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Strikebreaker : SCAB
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Arm bone : ULNA
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X followers : RAYS
29
Lure : ENTICEMENT
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Lanchester or Maxwell : ELSA
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Defeat : BEST
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An anagram of mode : DEMO
37
Rictus : GRIN
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Famed Renaissance name : ESTE
40
Sacred picture : ICON
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Straight: Comb. form : ORTHO
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Diversion : PASTIME
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Winged fruit : SAMARA
50
Leaf or grass follower : HOPPER
51
Lively dance : GALOP
52
Revere : ADORE
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Treasonous Pierre : LAVAL
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Part of B.P.O.E. : ORDER
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___ the Red : ERIC
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Church calendar : ORDO
60
Boxer Firpo or pitcher Tiant : LUIS
61
Quechua : INCA
62
Prescribes : SETS

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