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Nancy Nicholson Joline
Nancy Nicholson Joline

New York Times, Wednesday, June 25, 1986

14-Across : Cumberland ___, Tenn.

Author:
Nancy Joline
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { W X }, Scrabble score: 297 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
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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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,378
Across
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" ... with a runcible spoon": Lear : ATE
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Moslem prayer leader : IMAM
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Roamed : RANGED
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Cumberland ___, Tenn. : GAP
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"A Doll's House" inhabitant : NORA
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Annual : YEARLY
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Friend, to Pierre : AMI
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Clothing : TOGS
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Durant and Sharon : ARIELS
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Kind of carriage : VICTORIA
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Female gametes : OVA
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Lanchester or Maxwell : ELSA
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Henry VIII's second daughter : ELIZABETHI
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Newman role : HUD
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"___ to the West Wind": Shelley : ODE
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Prefix with mission or press : COM
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Aegean island : SAMOS
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It's bustin' out all over : JUNE
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Opposite of non : OUI
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Boleyn, Seymour et al. : QUEENSOFENGLAND
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Subject of a Keats poem : URN
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Trampled : TROD
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Surpass : OUTDO
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Suffix with baron or tutor : IAL
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___ de vie : EAU
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Film holder : CAN
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"South Pacific" role : BLOODYMARY
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Kind of palm : DATE
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Between chi and omega : PSI
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Statue on the Thames Embankment : BOADICEA
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This may be adverbial : CLAUSE
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Predecessor of bus or present : OMNI
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Seaman : TAR
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Homily : SERMON
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Unprofitable : VAIN
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One-time comic Olsen : OLE
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Yours for the ___ : ASKING
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Suffix with defer : ENCE
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Carmine : RED
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Sisal plant : AGAVE
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A language of Sri Lanka : TAMIL
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De Mille productions : EPICS
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"___ the jaws of death ... ": Tennyson : INTO
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Anchored : MOORED
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Potter's clay : ARGIL
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An African people : MASAI
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Scandinavian rug : RYA
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Oxygen-requiring microorganism : AEROBE
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Ingenuous : NAIVE
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Outer garment : GREATCOAT
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Annex : ELL
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Prefix with function : DYS
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Sierra Nevada lake : TAHOE
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Partitioned : ZONED
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Indian Ocean gulf : ADEN
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Basset, e.g. : HOUND
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Of an organic compound : IMIDO
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Armed services abbr. : USN
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Short news item : SQUIB
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Of the ear : AURAL
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Where 47 Down worked : MENLOPARK
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Large drinking vessel : JORUM
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Flying saucer : UFO
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Dog owner's command : STAY
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Indian region : GOA
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Dimanche follower : LUNDI
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Famed inventor : EDISON
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Bluish, as a flower : CYANIC
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Japan's ___ Islands : OSUMI
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Over : ABOVE
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Casca was one : ROMAN
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Player : ACTOR
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Naturalist Edwin Way ___ : TEALE
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Like some seals : EARED
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Wine and ___ : DINE
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R. E. Lee's group : CSA
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"___ Misérables" : LES
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RR man : ENG

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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