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Weil
Weil

New York Times, Thursday, May 10, 1979

49-Across : Color called animal rouge

Author:
Weil
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.37, Missing: { B J K X Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Weil has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,775
Across
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Like many a salad : TOSSED
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Negligent : REMISS
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Artist's quarters : ATELIER
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Spanish court star : ORANTES
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Kind of idol : MATINEE
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Rome tourist site : LATERAN
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Grip's concern : PROP
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Vital sign : PULSE
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Gibbon : APE
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Writer Rand : AYN
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Beard with an appropriate name : GOATEE
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Wretched : VILE
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Legal relinquishment of a right : WAIVER
28
Soviet region, for short : TATAR
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Mean or worth follower : WHILE
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Kind of triangle : SCALENE
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Invent : CREATE
34
Portended : OMENED
35
The good doctors : HEALERS
37
Small birds : WRENS
38
More fitting : APTER
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Exit : EGRESS
41
Memorable Cowardly Lion : LAHR
42
One of the small fry : SQUIRT
43
Not anti : FOR
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High dudgeon : IRE
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Spring or source : FOUNT
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Kind of grouse or hen : SAGE
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Color called animal rouge : CARMINE
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Antagonistic : HOSTILE
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The ___ City (Rome) : ETERNAL
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Registered : ENTERED
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Lemons once shipped from Mich. : EDSELS
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Lunchroom : EATERY
Down
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___ Bay, N.F.L. team : TAMPA
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Eared seal : OTARY
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American saint : SETON
4
Space between wharves : SLIP
5
German article : EIN
6
Sandra or Ruby : DEE
7
Hair curlers : ROLLERS
8
Obliterate : ERASE
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Starbuck, in "Moby Dick" : MATE
10
Suffix for hero or Joseph : INE
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Restricts; hampers : STRAITENS
12
Flying boat : SEAPLANE
14
Do road work : REPAVE
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Looked cynical : SNEERED
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Salt Lake City player : UTE
24
Relative of a romeo : GAITER
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Engine tender on a tanker : OILER
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Roman emperor: 364-378 : VALENS
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Hunter deplored by cetologists et al. : WHALER
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Least feral : TAMEST
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Successfully endured exposure : WEATHERED
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K.P. utensil : CORER
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Church vessel : CHALICE
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Peace treaty verb : REPARATE
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Follow-ups : SEQUELS
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Contort or distort : WRITHE
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Bren or Sten : GUN
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Of sound : SONAL
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Laissez-___ : FAIRE
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Romance is in his glance : OGLER
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Frail : REEDY
47
Court levy : FINE
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"No dele" : STET
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Robinson or Miniver : MRS
52
Bill : ONE
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Depot: Abbr. : STA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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