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Nancy Nicholson Joline
Nancy Nicholson Joline

New York Times, Wednesday, May 9, 1990

15-Across : One-celled creatures

Author:
Nancy Joline
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { J Q U V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 247 (avg 1.31)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Nancy Nicholson Joline has 61 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 48 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Nancy Joline is an alias for Nancy Nicholson Joline.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,792
Across
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"___ Co-Ed," 1930 song : BETTY
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University at Ithaca : CORNELL
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Small, juicy fruits : BERRIES
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One-celled creatures : AMOEBAE
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Reference book : ALMANAC
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Disease spread by mosquitoes : MALARIA
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Jai ___ : ALAI
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Kurosawa film: 1985 : RAN
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Palm leaf : FROND
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Houston was a governor here : TENNESSEE
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Historian Lord ___ : ACTON
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Gershwin song: 1930 : SOON
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Corded fabric : REPP
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Pottery fragments : SHARDS
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Corner : NOOK
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Mauna ___ : LOA
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Kind of table : PARSONS
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Kind of paper : TRACING
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That, in Tijuana : ESO
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"___ Man," 1984 film : REPO
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Corrigenda : ERRATA
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N.B.A. team : NETS
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Lugs of jugs : EARS
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Red dye : EOSIN
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Turtle-family members : TERRAPINS
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Foil's cousin : SABER
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"Au Revoir ___ Enfants," 1987 Malle film : LES
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German industrial region : SAAR
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Explorer Vespucci : AMERIGO
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Portia's maid : NERISSA
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They're engaged : FIANCES
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"Sic ___ gloria mundi" : TRANSIT
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Makes beloved : ENDEARS
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Borders : EDGES
Down
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Pen name of the Brontës : BELL
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Writer Bombeck : ERMA
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"Our fears do make us ___": Shak. : TRAITORS
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Kind of god : TIN
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Long : YEARN
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Auto part : CAM
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German grandma : OMA
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Pocahontas's married name : ROLFE
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"___, My God, to Thee" : NEARER
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River of N Spain : EBRO
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Rested : LAIN
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Set the pace : LEAD
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Pen sound : BAA
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M.R.I. examinations : SCANS
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A gas : NEON
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The witch of ___ : ENDOR
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Air pollutant : SOOT
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Night sound : SNORE
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It may be white or quaking : ASPEN
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Chief Justice: 1864-73 : CHASE
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Fortunetelling item : TAROT
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Inventor Howe : ELIAS
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Film producer Carlo : PONTI
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Attila, for one : PAGAN
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Show disdain : SNEER
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Black or Silkwood : KAREN
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Mast : SPAR
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Tennyson's "___ the Bar" : CROSSING
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Evangelist Roberts : ORAL
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"Tristram Shandy" author : STERNE
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Exhausted : SPENT
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Heath : ERICA
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Grenoble's river : ISERE
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Secure : SAFE
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Exiled Ugandan : AMIN
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Globule : BEAD
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South African fox : ASSE
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Sale-item notice : ASIS
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Clavell's "King ___" : RAT
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Eur. country : GER
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Wild Bill Donovan's org. : OSS
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Half a diam. : RAD

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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