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William Canine
William Canine

New York Times, Friday, September 13, 1991

12-Across : Hungary's first king

Author:
William Canine
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
William Canine has 65 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,284
Across
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The rainbow fish : MAORI
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Blocked : DAMMED
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Hungary's first king : STEPHEN
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Goes off the track : DERAILS
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Hit film directed by Robert Wise: 1965 : THESOUNDOFMUSIC
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Plexus : RETE
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Conductor Koussevitzky : SERGE
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W.W. II vessel : LST
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Objective : AIM
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More macabre : EERIER
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Dirty : SOIL
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Doesn't rush in dressing : PREENS
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Standards for Faldo : PARS
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Cook's meas. : TSP
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Is located : SITS
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Forte of Flavor-Flav : RAP
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"___ De-Lovely" : ITS
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Düsseldorf neighbor : NEUSS
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Blunders : SLIPS
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Future lts. study here : OCS
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Ike's command : ETO
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Bennett of "What's My Line?" : CERF
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Tank : VAT
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Laura or Bruce of films : DERN
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"Black Beauty" author : SEWELL
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A Guthrie : ARLO
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Demonstrated : PROVED
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Gosh! : GEE
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Promissory note : IOU
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Minacious situation : PERIL
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Powder used in making plastics : UREA
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"Guys and Dolls" hit song : ABUSHELANDAPECK
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Hangs about : LOITERS
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Prairie wolves : COYOTES
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Complains about trivialities : FUSSES
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Auguries : OMENS
Down
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Garland favorite : MEETMEINSTLOUIS
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Chevet : APSE
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Ah so! : OHO
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Employs again : REUSES
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Stapleton's "The Gift of ___ Healing" : INNER
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Postponement : DEFERRAL
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Radius's locale : ARM
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Treats roughly : MAULS
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Cole Porter hit : MISSOTISREGRETS
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Believer in rule by the upper crust : ELITIST
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Mil. award : DSC
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Latigo : STRAP
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"___ not to reason why": Tennyson : THEIRS
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Mistreats a book : DOGEARS
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Trickle : DRIP
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Resulted : ENSUED
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Competition for 45's : LPS
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Antibes summer : ETE
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Added piquancy : SPICED
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Chorus girls : STEPPERS
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Certain horses : SORRELS
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"Treasure Island" character : PEW
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Roe : OVA
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Only deer in which both sexes have antlers : CARIBOU
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Swindle : FLEECE
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Writer Ephron : NORA
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Infrequently : SELDOM
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Escapes gradually : LEAKS
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Winkles out : OUSTS
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Met basso in the 70's : VINCO
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Well versed in : UPON
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Airy ___ of comics : ALF
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TV's "___ Haw" : HEE
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Nay neutralizer : AYE

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

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