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Louise Earnest
Louise Earnest

New York Times, Friday, July 2, 1982

8-Across : Waterfall

Author:
Louise Earnest
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.37, Missing: { J K Q W X }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 86, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Louise Earnest has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,924
Across
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Tibetan worshiper : LAMAIST
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Waterfall : CASCADE
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Sid's sidekick, once : IMOGENE
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Supervise : OVERSEE
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Yellowish-brown hues : LOUTRES
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Updating : REVISAL
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Indian rice : AUS
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___ impasse : ATAN
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Kind of board : EMERY
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Top of the line : CREMEDELACREME
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Actor Selleck : TOM
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Decorator's verb : REDO
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Locust pod : CAROB
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Rambling : SCATTERED
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Speedily : APACE
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Flavoring seed : ANISE
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Words differently : REPHRASES
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Shed : HOVEL
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Galvanizing material : ZINC
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Violinist Bull : OLE
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The very best : SALTOFTHEEARTH
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Rembrandt's "___ Trees" : THREE
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Bender : TOOT
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Cupped item : BRA
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Hodgepodge : MELANGE
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Lighter fluid, of a sort : LAMPOIL
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Garment worker : PRESSER
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Unsettle : AGITATE
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Segments of sonnets : SESTETS
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Has bearing on : RELATES
Down
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Syringa : LILAC
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"Hiroshima Mon ___," 1959 film : AMOUR
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Long-running Christie play, with "The" : MOUSETRAP
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Realtor: Abbr. : AGT
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Letters in back of front : IER
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J.C. of golf : SNEAD
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Canopies over beds : TESTERS
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Matador's wound : CORNADA
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Pennsylvania, in D.C. : AVE
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Divide : SEVER
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Nonpaying activity : CRIME
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Gather, as in a hall: Abbr. : ASSEM
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Mary ___, ship in an Innes work : DEARE
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Hard to grasp : EELY
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Actor Clunes : ALEC
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Sponge; cadge : MOOCH
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Lent's ___ days : EMBER
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Bunkhouse bunk : COT
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Duryea, e.g. : CAR
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Mimic : APE
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Truckee source : TAHOE
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Town NW of Harrisburg : ENOLA
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Twain transport : RIVERBOAT
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Suffix with journal : ESE
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Second smallest of the U.S.A. : DEL
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Kind of dye : AZO
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Bakery utensils : SIFTERS
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Within: Comb. form : ENTO
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Academician : SCHOLAR
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___ Khan, Kipling tiger : SHERE
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City on the Rhone : ARLES
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Minimal : LEAST
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Future perfect, e.g. : TENSE
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Building level, in France : ETAGE
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Timeworn : TRITE
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Summons to court : HALES
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Therm. recordings : TMPS
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"___ lost!" : GET
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Former Palestinian coin : MIL
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Harper Valley org. : PTA

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

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