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Irene Smullyan
Irene Smullyan

New York Times, Saturday, June 7, 1986

18-Across : Taut

Author:
Irene Smullyan
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.54, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 92, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Irene Smullyan has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,360
Across
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Gone by : AGO
4
Elec. unit : AMP
7
Cruelty : SADISM
13
Brain ___ : TRUSTER
15
Zoroastrian scriptures : AVESTA
16
Like a Catton work : HISTORIC
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Taut : TENSED
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Sheeplike : OVINE
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Part of a runcible spoon : TINE
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"Cherry ___," Herrick poem : RIPE
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Northamptonshire river : NENE
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The Swedish Nightingale : LIND
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U.S. satellite : TIROS
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Algeria's Grand ___ Oriental : ERG
28
Kind of meal or china : BONE
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Musical forms : MOTETS
30
Small shark : TOPE
31
Quote : CITE
32
Thin : SPARSE
35
"The ___," Harry James hit : MOLE
36
Conditions : IFS
39
___ acid, in apples : MALIC
40
City once called Lake's Crossing : RENO
41
Eat away : GNAW
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"Aeneid" starter : ARMA
43
" ... bearded like the ___": Shak. : PARD
44
Country singer Muldaur : MARIA
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Behave formally : STANDONCEREMONY
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Depends : HINGES
49
Begin : INITIATE
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More of such people : ETALII
51
Calumny : SLANDER
52
Respectable : DECENT
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Slithery one : EEL
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Campus org. in the 60's : SDS
Down
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Urban district on the Shannon : ATHLONE
2
Niobe, e.g. : GRIEVER
3
Ejection : OUSTING
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Observe Yom Kippur : ATONE
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Garçon's "best friend" : MERE
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Immaculate : PRISTINE
7
"Parade" composer : SATIE
8
State : AVER
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Nerve-cell process : DENDRITE
10
Puy-de-Dôme town : ISSOIRE
11
Kitchen vessel : STEWPOT
12
"That devil's ___—War": R. W. Service : MADNESS
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Rosetta ___ : STONE
17
Backbone : CHINE
20
Song from "A Chorus Line" : AND
25
Writer de Vega : LOPE
26
Lug : TOTE
28
Pear named for a naturalist : BOSC
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Minderbinder of "Catch-22" : MILO
30
Kind of spider : TRIANGLE
31
Abridge : CONDENSE
32
Under the alfluence of incohol : SMASHED
33
Divided : PARTITE
34
Calendar, and more : ALMANAC
35
Thanks, to de Gaulle : MERCI
36
Progress of a sort : INROADS
37
Experienced a syncope : FAINTED
38
Some of Sammy Kaye's fans : SWAYERS
40
Managed : RAN
41
Urchin : GAMIN
43
Assert : POSIT
44
Bismuth, e.g. : METAL
46
Your, in Bonn : DEIN
47
Get one's goat : RILE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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