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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Friday, July 24, 1992

31-Across : Windblown

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.14, Missing: { J Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,599
Across
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Small flounders : DABS
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Woody's scion : ARLO
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Pierre's date : AMIE
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Foil for a fencer : EPEE
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Ore stratum : SEAM
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Theda of silents : BARA
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Fun in numbers, with "the" : MORETHEMERRIER
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Resembling stein contents : ALISH
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A haff is one : LAGOON
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Little-red-schoolhouse supplies : SLATES
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Oscar-winning 1984 film : AMADEUS
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"___ / I bade good-morrow": Keats : TOSORROW
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Lacking direction : ADRIFT
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Windblown : EOLIAN
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" ... and be thou like to ___": Song of Solomon : AROE
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Several kings of Norway : OLAFS
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Author Deighton : LEN
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Void : EGEST
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Safari hat : TOPI
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Conductor Bruno ___ : WALTER
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Pekoe forerunner : ORANGE
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Elongated mussel : DEERHORN
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Soaps, e.g. : SERIALS
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Annie of songdom : LAURIE
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Trumpet fanfare : TUCKET
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It has its tricks : TRADE
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Funny situation : LAUGHINGMATTER
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Amanuensis, at times : AIDE
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Singer Brickell : EDIE
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Oblige a borrower : LEND
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Raised select animals : BRED
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Kind of touch : SOFT
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"___ Perpetua," Idaho motto : ESTO
Down
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Remove a spar : DEMAST
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Astronaut carrier : APOLLO
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Family of executed Soviet secret-police chief : BERIAS
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Takes care of : SEESTO
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Rowan : ASH
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Movie unit : REEL
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Dalai ___ : LAMA
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The last : OMEGA
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Overseas : ABROAD
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Small town's big street: Slang : MAINDRAG
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Sinful emotion : IRE
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Musician's attribute : EAR
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" ... ___ the rub": Hamlet : THERES
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Type of candle : ROMAN
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Sellout notice : SRO
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Republic near England : EIRE
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Skyway saucers : UFOS
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Editor's O.K. : STET
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Baked clay pot : OLLA
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Handle : WIELD
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Prefix with date : ANTE
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Okla. Indians : OTOS
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Body of knowledge : LORE
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On ___ with (equal to) : APAR
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Quality of being limited : FINITUDE
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List of corrigenda : ERRATA
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Raquel of filmdom : WELCH
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Congrio : EEL
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Measured : GAUGED
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Rush violently : HURTLE
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Emulates Crassus : ORATES
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Cheerful : RIDENT
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___-well : NEERDO
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" ... for spacious ___" : SKIES
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Within: Comb. form : ENDO
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Popular pre-weekend acronym : TGIF
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Experimental ctr. : LAB
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Ventilate : AIR
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Assembled : MET

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

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