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Guido N. Scarato
Guido N. Scarato

New York Times, Wednesday, May 16, 1984

39-Across : Hard rubber

Author:
Guido Scarato
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Guido N. Scarato has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Guido Scarato is an alias for Guido N. Scarato.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,608
Across
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Home territory : TURF
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Sharp ridge : ARETE
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"Front porch" : FLAB
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Lulu : ONER
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Bake eggs : SHIRR
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"It ___ hundred years ... " : RANA
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Actress Lee : LILA
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Kin of echo ranging : SONAR
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Solecist's word : AINT
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About three miles : LEAGUE
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Sometime partner of arts : SCIENCES
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Sesame : TIL
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Doctrine : TENET
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Overflow : SPILLAGE
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Luggage : GRIPS
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Do some tarring : PAVE
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Gifts for visitors to No. 50 : LEIS
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Venus's venous fluid : ICHOR
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Finial : EPI
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Hard rubber : EBONITE
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Before, to the Bard : ERE
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Passé : DATED
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Great artist: Abbr. : MSTR
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Snick and ___ : SNEE
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False instruments? : LYRES
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Group harmony : TEAMWORK
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Followers of J. Ammann : AMISH
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Goal : AIM
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Kind of tax : NUISANCE
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A unit of speech : TONEME
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At all : ONCE
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"O ___ shall go mad": Lear : FOOLI
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Growl : GNAR
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Frankfurt an der ___ : ODER
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Strip a sloop : UNRIG
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Cut of meat : LOIN
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O.K.'s : NODS
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Tacloban's locale : LEYTE
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Remnants : ENDS
Down
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Ring the bell : TOLL
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Surgeonfish's kin : UNIE
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Subject of 7 Down : RELATIVITY
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Word on a cardboard box : FRAGILE
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S. African fox : ASSE
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Greek letter : RHO
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Startling enunciation in 1905 : EINSTEINSTHEORY
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Vestige : TRACE
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In the wrong : ERRING
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Wild : FRANTIC
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Secular : LAIC
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Biographer Edwards : ANNE
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Loco : BATS
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Stepson of Thor : ULL
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Weird : EERIE
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Hied : SPED
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Kind of cross : PAPAL
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Clerical robe : ALB
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Euclid's subj. : GEOM
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Rare event : PHENOMENON
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More painful : SORER
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Spot : SITE
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Emanation from a stogie : REEK
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Tomato blight : EDEMA
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Among, in Asti : TRA
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Office needs : ERASERS
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Flax implement : SWINGLE
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Wicked : SINFUL
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Erstwhile Chinese leader : MAO
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Oatmeal quick bread : SCONE
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Late time in a nursery rhyme : NOON
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Cancel : UNDO
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Readied the bubbly : ICED
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Buster Brown's dog : TIGE
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Hotel employee : MAID
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Sea birds : ERNS
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Tipsy : LIT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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