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Manny Nosowsky
Manny Nosowsky

New York Times, Friday, August 27, 1993

17-Across : Most moist in the morning

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.43, Missing: { J K Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 90, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry.
Manny Nosowsky has 8 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 246 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,998
Across
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Unresisting : PASSIVE
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Black leopard : PANTHER
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Unfolds : EVOLVES
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Behind the eight ball : INAHOLE
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Most moist in the morning : DEWIEST
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Sporting a tag : LABELED
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Stage device : DROP
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Card of the future? : TAROT
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Advantage : EDGE
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Wool: Comb. form : LAN
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Knee percher : TOT
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Second word in an anthem : SAY
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River in Bavaria : EGER
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Yielded : CEDED
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Ready to eat : DONE
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Caulks the cracks again : RESEALS
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Drives up the wall : DEMENTS
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Walk in water : WADE
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One to grow on? : ACRE
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Showed results : PAIDOFF
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As a whole : ENMASSE
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In a talented manner : ABLY
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Giants and A's : TEAMS
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"Younger ___ Springtime" : THAN
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Free of : RID
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Tell a whopper : LIE
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Mythical monster : ORC
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African flower : ALOE
52
Pooh's creator : MILNE
54
Therefore : ERGO
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Poker-faced : DEADPAN
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"The ___," 1983 Finney film : DRESSER
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Authorize : ENTITLE
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Mise ___ (stage setting) : ENSCENE
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Puts in office again : RESEATS
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Hates : DETESTS
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Cheap-jack : PEDDLER
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Par for the course : AVERAGE
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Do an odd farm chore? : SOWONESWILDOATS
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Fall from grace : SLIP
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"___ Got a Secret" : IVE
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Sleeveless garb : VEST
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Conditions : ESTATES
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Did a conn job : PILOTED
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Course for a med. student : ANAT
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Catch a crook : NAB
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"Get ___ to a nunnery": Hamlet : THEE
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Does another odd farm chore? : HOLDSONESHORSES
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Classily clad : ELEGANT
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Some night flights : REDEYES
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Mandrel : ROD
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Duly equipped : READY
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Hollow area : CLEFT
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Acheson and Martin : DEANS
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Emulate the Pied Piper : DERAT
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___ Annie of "Oklahoma!" : ADO
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A year in McKinley's Presidency : MCM
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Drum major in action : PARADER
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Where Eisenhower grew up : ABILENE
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All the cats : FELINES
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Did an editor's job : EMENDED
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"El Jaleo" painter : SARGENT
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Recalls at the Met : ENCORES
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Be under the weather : AIL
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Actress McClurg : EDIE
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Sundae alternative : MALT
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Bird of merit? : ERNE
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Verb suffix : ESCE
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School gp. : PTA
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A direction in Roma : EST

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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