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Hall
Hall

New York Times, Wednesday, August 7, 1991

43-Across : Soft silk fabric

Author:
Hall
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Hall has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,247
Across
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Make ___ (grimace) : AFACE
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Epidermis part : PORE
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Yield : CEDE
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Union unit : LOCAL
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At all : EVER
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Dash : ELAN
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Oil for the lamps of Roma : OLEUM
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Some kind of nut : KOLA
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An anagram for rode : REDO
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Some evergreens : FIRS
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Some hair : PILE
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Some notes : MEMOS
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Famous existential dilemma : TOBEORNOTTOBE
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Certain dirty condensate : SMOG
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Merited : EARNED
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Pronoun for a ship : SHE
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All square : EVENUP
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Remotest of the Aleutians : ATTU
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Famous anthropogeographic distinction : NOMANISANISLAND
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Actor Bates : ALAN
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Out of fashion, in Paris : DEMODE
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___ Palmas : LAS
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Soft silk fabric : PONGEE
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Solemnity : RITE
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G.B.S. play: 1894 : ARMSANDTHEMAN
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S.A. monkeys : TITIS
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Nephew of Donald Duck : HUEY
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Cloth of gold : LAME
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Simone de Beauvoir, to Sartre : AMIE
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Clairvoyant : SEER
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Dinette for Juvenal : OECUS
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Heroic poetry : EPOS
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Macadamize : PAVE
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Topknot : CREST
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Dryer fallout : LINT
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Mimicked : APED
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Fools : ASSES
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Soaring : ALOFT
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Leaf : FOLIO
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Bitter : ACERB
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Effects : CAUSES
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A red one may be slippery : ELM
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A language or dog : PEKINGESE
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Rounded convex molding : OVOLO
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Released, in a sense : RELET
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Period or stat : ERA
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Appealing to the intellect : CEREBRAL
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Rudimentary : ELEMENTAL
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Part of a base : DADO
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A grandson of Adam : ENOS
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Furnishes : PROVIDES
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Extinct bird : MOA
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Red sky at dawn, for example : OMEN
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Lukewarm state : TEPIDITY
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"Vulcan's forge" : ETNA
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Togs : DUDS
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Ginger chaser : SNAP
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Complete: Comb. form : HOLO
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Efflux : EMANATION
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Hanoi's land, to a G.I. : NAM
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In random sequence : UNORDERED
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Most irate : ANGRIEST
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Mr. Pecksniff : SETH
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Rheine's river : EMS
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Snigglers : EELERS
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"It takes ___ o' livin'": Guest : AHEAP
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Nine, in Navarra : NUEVE
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Medieval clubs : MACES
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Divert : AMUSE
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Ravens' havens : NESTS
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Eastern Asian weight : TAEL
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Body of African warriors : IMPI
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Hot tub : SPA
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Wood sorrel : OCA

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

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