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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Thursday, August 9, 1984

23-Across : Barracuda

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { K Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 60, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 8, XRef: 2, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,693
Across
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Plant's breathing pore : STOMA
6
"Keep your ___ on!" : SHIRT
11
"___ Restaurant" : ALICES
12
Certain bridge holding : HONORS
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He wrote "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes" : STEPHENJAYGOULD
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Guevara : CHE
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Word with chase or jack : STEEPLE
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___ culpa : MEA
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G.O.P. members : REPS
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"Gymnopédies" composer : SATIE
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Barracuda : SPET
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Cyclotron item : ANION
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Three: Comb. form : TER
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Golfer Calvin : PEETE
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One running amok : MANIAC
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Part of A.S.P.C.A. : SOCIETY
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Univ. degrees : BAS
34
Share a meal : SUP
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___ reason (was logical) : STOODTO
39
Deliver a poem : RECITE
44
"The Panda's ___," by 14 Across : THUMB
45
Measure of fluidity : RHE
47
Something for "a blue lady" : ROSES
48
Age after age : EONS
49
Meadows or Kennedy : JAYNE
51
Mel and Ed of baseball : OTTS
52
Louis XIV, e.g. : ROI
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Echo loudly : RESOUND
55
Dom. of Otto I : HRE
56
Another book by 14 Across, with "The" : MISMEASUREOFMAN
59
Christian Council or Creed : NICENE
60
Approach to Hades : EREBUS
61
Gracie or Debbie : ALLEN
62
Duke or Day : DORIS
Down
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Kind of maid : SLEEPIN
2
Perquisite : TIP
3
Memorable publisher : OCHS
4
Congregates : MEETS
5
___ as a pin : ASNEAT
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Poets David and Karl : SHAPIROS
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"According to ___" : HOYLE
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"The Gloomy Dean" : INGE
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Kanga's baby : ROO
10
Satchmo's horn : TRUMPET
11
Parthenon figure : ATHENA
13
Like roads that need salting : SLEETY
14
Hotfoot it away : SCRAM
15
Ballerina's leaps : JETES
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Engagement : DATE
21
Oneself: Fr. : SOI
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Comprehend : SEE
25
Rich man : NABOB
27
Hamelin's music man : PIPER
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He's no gentleman : CAD
31
Mongrel : CUR
33
Streets of Berlin : STRASSEN
35
Heavy favorite : SHOOIN
36
A neighbor of Libya : TUNISIA
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Mantric words : OMS
38
"___ kid!" : OHYOU
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Bill's partner : COO
41
Panama, e.g. : ISTHMUS
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Aquarium fishes : TETRAS
43
Ruhr city : ESSEN
44
Six years in the Senate : TERM
46
Hardened : ENURED
49
Mrs. Kirkpatrick : JEANE
50
January, to Julio : ENERO
53
Stagger : REEL
54
Active person : DOER
57
DLXXV, doubled : MCL
58
G-men's org. : FBI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 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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