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Whitten
Whitten

New York Times, Tuesday, August 23, 1983

32-Across : Skill or guile

Author:
Whitten
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { H J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 256 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has duplicate clues.
Whitten has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,341
Across
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Gumbo, e.g. : SOUP
5
Seal, otter, etc. : FURS
9
Chronic complainer : CRAB
13
Capra's "___ Wonderful Life" : ITSA
14
Gay ___ : PAREE
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Canter's relative : LOPE
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Food regimen : DIET
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Monday, in Nice : LUNDI
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Expel : OUST
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Gourmet's delight : CREPESSUZETTE
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I.o.u. : DEBT
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Slice : CUT
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Extreme : SEVERE
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Accented : STRESSED
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Skill or guile : CRAFT
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Plumlike fruit : SLOE
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Harrow part : TINE
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Memorable cartoonist : ARNO
36
Wound marks : SCARS
37
Collection of Old Norse poetry : EDDA
38
Places : LOCI
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Wallet items : TENS
40
More wan : PALER
41
Activity of a belle or bird : PREENING
43
Napoleons are created here : BAKERY
44
Guido's highest note : ELA
45
Transmit : SEND
46
Gourmet's delight : OYSTERSCASINO
52
Double curve : OGEE
53
One of the Lesser Sundas : TIMOR
54
Word form before gram or space : AERO
56
Arm bone : ULNA
57
Balzac's birthplace : TOURS
58
Sedaka or Simon : NEIL
59
Assay : TEST
60
Bone: Comb. form : OSTE
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What nervous Nellies are on : EDGE
Down
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Caesar or Luckman : SID
2
Auricular : OTIC
3
Consumer : USER
4
___ gras : PATEDEFOIE
5
Goethe tragedy : FAUST
6
Cinerary vessels : URNS
7
Chemical apparatuses : REDUCTORS
8
Coast Guard takeovers : SEIZURES
9
Jumbled mass : CLOT
10
Beat badly : ROUT
11
Recess at Notre Dame : APSE
12
Wager : BET
14
U.S.N.A. freshman : PLEBE
20
Bold : PERT
21
Summer, in Calais : ETE
24
Area for a tonsorial artist : SCALP
25
Trial's partner : ERROR
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Cyrus, Dazzy or Philo : VANCE
27
Argot : SLANG
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Gourmet's delight : STEAKDIANE
29
Move sideways : SIDLE
30
Bitter-___ (diehard) : ENDER
31
Darling : DEARY
33
Outlines of plays : SCENARIOS
36
Dagger : STILETTO
40
Some spiders : PANS
42
Snare : NET
43
"Bad News" team : BEARS
45
Cross the plate : SCORE
46
Leer's cousin : OGLE
47
Desires : YENS
48
Put in office : SEAT
49
Plant disease : SMUT
50
Require : NEED
51
First: Abbr. : ORIG
52
Away from : OUT
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Grand ___ Opry : OLE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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