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Edward J. Marchese
Edward J. Marchese

RAZING THE PHRASING

New York Times, Sunday, September 16, 1984

31-Across : Friendly Islands

Author:
Edward Marchese
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 78, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 535 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 112, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
Edward J. Marchese has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Edward Marchese is an alias for Edward J. Marchese.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,731
Across
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Suit : BEFIT
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___ Islands, off New Guinea : AROE
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"Moby Dick" protagonist : AHAB
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Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1958 : AGEE
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Stand fast : ABIDE
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Famed N.Z. miler : SNELL
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Dried up : SERE
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Helen of Troy's mother : LEDA
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The Culbertson Method? : CALLASPADEASPADE
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Air-conditioner meas. : BTUS
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Kind of jerk : KNEE
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Church calendar : ORDO
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Ran : SPED
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"___ homo!" : ECCE
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Graf ___, German battleship : SPEE
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Friendly Islands : TONGA
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Stuck in the mud : MIRED
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Emulate Zubin Mehta? : FACETHEMUSIC
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Book mistakes : ERRATA
42
Collins role in "Dynasty" : ALEXIS
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Kind of list or bay : SICK
44
Maple genus : ACER
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Mil. rank : CPL
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Pause : LETUP
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Baksheesh : ALMS
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Political pamphlet : TRACT
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New Zealand parrot : KEA
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Plumbing operation? : LEADPIPECINCH
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Forceful : DRIVING
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Noted journalism name : ALSOP
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Moon's farthest point from earth : APOGEE
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Inner: Prefix : ENTO
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Musical group : SEPTET
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Seashell pink : TUSSORE
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Heating fuel : AIRGAS
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Chill : AGUE
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Bay State's ___ Mountains : HOOSAC
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Waterfalls, in Scotland : LINNS
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Aromatic resins : BALSAMS
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Forty-niner's dream? : FLASHINTHEPAN
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Building wing : ELL
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Rope fiber : SISAL
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Weems and Husing : TEDS
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Three-time A.L. batting champion : OLIVA
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___ judicata : RES
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Levant sailboat : SAIC
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Portico for Plato : STOA
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___ Aires : BUENOS
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Adolescent : TEENER
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How to handle Nolan Ryan? : PULLAFASTONE
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Kind of offering : BURNT
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Word with system or plexus : SOLAR
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French cheese : BRIE
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Indigo shrub : ANIL
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Suffering : PAIN
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Jimmy, e.g. : TOOL
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Corn Belt state : IOWA
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Type of bus or skirt : MINI
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How a seamstress manages? : ONPINSANDNEEDLES
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Swamps : BOGS
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Metric units in verse : FEET
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Chose : OPTED
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Contract : LEASE
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S.M.U. or T.C.U. : INST
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Thatcher supporter : TORY
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Fabled monster's lair : NESS
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Coarse cotton cloth : MANTA
Down
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O. J. was one : BACK
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Second Israeli ambassador to the U.S. : EBAN
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Quannet or rattail : FILE
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Worthless : IDLE
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Afternoon gathering : TEA
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Garland : ANADEM
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Change the wallpaper : REDO
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"This ___ House," 1954 song : OLE
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Resilient : ELASTIC
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Quiverleaf : ASPEN
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Cap, helmet, etc. : HEADGEAR
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Ending for dull : ARD
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Basketball Hall of Fame coach : BEE
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Although : ALBEIT
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Willie Sutton's motto? : GETCRACKING
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Draw out : EDUCE
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Facilitated : EASED
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Overindulgence : SPREE
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Coll. group : SOPHS
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Child-care name : SPOCK
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Dot painting : STIPPLE
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Shopping area : ARCADE
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Cuban poet-patriot : MARTI
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Suffer defeat : FALL
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Nautical term : ALEE
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Former Fed. job-training program : CETA
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Substances that ooze out : EXUDATES
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Leathernecks' org. : USMC
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Pedro's "Positively!" : SISI
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Disloyal : RECREANT
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Five: Comb. form : PENTA
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Nigeria's capital : LAGOS
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Highest Philippine peak : APO
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Weak: Comb. form : LEPTO
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Thunder dispenser : THOR
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Connecting two land masses : ISTHMIAN
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Town in Peru : NASCA
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U.S.N. member : CPO
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Little poem : VERSELET
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Icy : GELID
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Type of saw : SABER
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Parisienne's peer : EGALE
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Emulate a puppeteer? : PULLSTRINGS
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N.F.L. rival : USFL
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Mule "on the Erie Canal" : SAL
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Originating within a company : INHOUSE
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Actor Davis and others : OSSIES
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Office holders : INS
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Charisma, e.g. : ASSET
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Aircraft acronym : STOL
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Cure : HEAL
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Mexican evergreen : PINO
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The Bard's river : AVON
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Hans's beak : NASE
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Come ___ (fail utterly) : ACROPPER
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Welty's "Music from ___" : SPAIN
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Excites : TURNSON
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___ Atha Cliath (Dublin, to Gaels) : BAILE
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Persuade to help : ENLIST
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Residences : ABODES
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Fern leaf : FROND
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Salten tale : BAMBI
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Alliance : UNION
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Nonprofessionals : LAITY
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Explosives : TNTS
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Conception : IDEA
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"The Good Earth" mother : OLAN
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Rebecca or Nathanael : WEST
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Sailing : ASEA
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Frequently, to Keats : OFT
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Prefix for Impressionism : NEO
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Impersonate : APE
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One of the wahoos : ELM

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4 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 10 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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