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Nancy Nicholson Joline
Nancy Nicholson Joline

New York Times, Friday, June 3, 1988

55-Across : Grip

Author:
Nancy Joline
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q V W Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
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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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,087
Across
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Small lizard : SKINK
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"Ad ___ per Aspera," Kan. motto : ASTRA
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Dallas inst. : SMU
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Pirogue, e.g. : CANOE
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Bayes and Ephron : NORAS
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Flatfoot : COP
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Full of twists and turns : ANFRACTUOUS
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Wrath : IRE
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Mangel-wurzel : BEET
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Associate : ALLY
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Colo. resort : ASPEN
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Basel's river : RHINE
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Epic starring Achilles : ILIAD
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Kaiser or Maxwell : CAR
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Gloomy : ATRABILIOUS
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Actor Brian : AHERNE
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Taut : TENSE
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" ... call of the running ___": Masefield : TIDE
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Assessed : RATED
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Radar display : SCAN
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Author St. Johns : ADELA
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Medical : IATRIC
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Rudimentary : ABECEDARIAN
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A people of Nigeria : EDO
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"But now I feel like thirty ___": Ade : CENTS
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Punkies, e.g. : GNATS
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Grip : CLASP
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Author Richard Henry : DANA
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French-Belgian river : YSER
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Daiquiri ingredient : RUM
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Twelve-syllable line of verse : ALEXANDRINE
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Tognazzi of "La Cage aux Folles" : UGO
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Like some columns : IONIC
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"The Thinker" creator : RODIN
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Anvil and hammer site : EAR
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Charlotte ___ : RUSSE
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"Same Time, Next Year" author : SLADE
Down
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Strikebreaker : SCAB
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Welles role : KANE
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Deduced : INFERRED
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Fawn Hall's boss : NORTH
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Mauna ___, Hawaiian peak : KEA
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Horn : ANTLER
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Kind of food : SOUL
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Schliemann's discovery : TROY
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Writer Santha Rama ___ : RAU
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Attacks : ASSAILS
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Hannibal's nemesis : SCIPIO
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Actress Jeanne : MOREAU
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Defeats : UPENDS
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Galloped easily : CANTERED
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Most foxy : SLIEST
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Actor McKellen : IAN
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Marquis's Mehitabel : CAT
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Pacific tuna : AHI
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Fragrant oil : ATTAR
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Busy one : BEE
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Tarkington was one : INDIANAN
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Responds to a stimulus : REACTS
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Wing on an angelus : ALA
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Shakespearean heroine : CRESSIDA
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Succor : AID
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Sgt. : NCO
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Hopelessness : DESPAIR
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Memorabilia : ANA
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Gather, as interest : ACCRUE
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A source of caviar : BELUGA
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Charm : ENAMOR
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Paderewski : IGNACE
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Alpine region : TYROL
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Lairs : DENS
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World War II alliance : AXIS
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Wife of Geraint : ENID
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Descartes : RENE
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Singer Rawls : LOU
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O.R. figures : DRS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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