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Grace Fabbroni
Grace Fabbroni

New York Times, Tuesday, July 12, 1977

33-Across : Instant

Author:
Grace Fabbroni
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 252 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 2
Grace Fabbroni has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,195
Across
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Sea flyer : ERNE
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Adorn in a finicky way : PRIMP
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Try for a ringer : TOSS
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Jack Sprat's diet : LEAN
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Duck, or its down : EIDER
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Aimless; pointless : IDLE
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Tops : BEST
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French place of learning : ECOLE
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Total defeat : ROUT
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Tale of Venus de Milo? : AFAREWELLTOARMS
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Highest honor : ACE
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Purpose : END
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Postures at bat : STANCES
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Enrage : INCENSE
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Instant : TRICE
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Jittery : TENSE
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Alley ___ of comics : OOP
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River in Yorkshire : OUSE
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Fry in very little fat : SAUTE
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Had on : WORE
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Moslemism is one: Abbr. : REL
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Chrysler Building feature : SPIRE
42
Ballerina Jeanmaire : RENEE
43
Russian citadel : KREMLIN
45
Noisy oil wells : ROARERS
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Swiss waterway : AAR
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Three, in Rome : TRE
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Tale of autumn leaves? : GONEWITHTHEWIND
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Chester ___ Arthur : ALAN
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Start of many a limerick : THERE
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Margarine : OLEO
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Columbus's return-trip ship: 1492-93 : NINA
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Sniggler for wrigglers : EELER
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Tilt, as a ship : LIST
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Spur; stimulus : GOAD
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Gives, as to charity (with "out") : DOLES
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Kismet : FATE
Down
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Exile island of 1814 : ELBA
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Menace for mariners : REEF
3
Space agency : NASA
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Overpower with emotion : ENTRANCE
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Runt : PEEWEE
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Paddy product : RICE
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Fan-club hero : IDOL
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Pell's partner : MELL
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Make-believe : PRETENSE
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Angry speech : TIRADE
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Repute : ODOR
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Urban eyesore : SLUM
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Coteries : SETS
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___ homo : ECCE
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Formerly : ONCE
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Heron's relative : STORK
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More veracious : TRUER
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Usher's beat : AISLE
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Cleaner's concern : STAIN
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Between: Prefix : INTER
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Not a soul : NOONE
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More grievous : SORER
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Musketeers' foils : EPEES
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Fr., Ger., Ital. et al. : EUR
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Full of vigor : SPIRITED
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Lycanthrope : WEREWOLF
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Cabbage dish : SLAW
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Like "a day in June" : RARE
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Bacchante; distraught woman : MAENAD
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Additional ones : OTHERS
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Outlaw outfit : GANG
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Hodgepodge : OLIO
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Dog in "Peter Pan" : NANA
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Van Gogh's brother : THEO
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"War is ___": Sherman : HELL
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Tupelo or tulip : TREE
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Hip bones : ILIA
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Raven's haven : NEST
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Be foolishly fond : DOTE

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