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W. E. Jones
W. E. Jones

DOMICILIARY

New York Times, Sunday, September 17, 1961

12-Across : Baseboard border.

Author:
W. E. Jones
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 166, Blocks: 84, Avg Word Len: 5.36, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 641 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 142, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 11, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 21 Grid has duplicate clues.
W. E. Jones has 95 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1961, The New York TimesNo. 4,447
Across
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Kate's home. : PADUA
6
Sound of bare feet. : PATPAT
12
Baseboard border. : DADO
16
Tribunal. : FORUM
21
Decorate. : ADORN
22
Leather. : OXHIDE
23
Duck genus. : ANAS
24
Town near Naples. : EBOLI
25
Residence of a queen. : PETITTRIANON
27
One. : UNIT
28
Gay. : RIANT
29
Rather: Suffix. : ISH
30
Marble. : SHOOTER
31
Estate in R. L. S. novel. : BALLANTRAE
33
Summers: Fr. : ETES
35
Grog. : RUM
36
Very: Ger. : SEHR
39
Stadium rows. : TIERS
40
Deductions. : REBATES
42
Oriental. : FAREASTERN
44
Pearls. : GEMS
48
Molding. : OGEE
49
Political party. : GOP
50
Word of farewell. : ADIOS
51
Aegean isle. : ICARIA
53
Hall. : FOYER
55
Glengarries. : CAPS
56
Estuaries: Sp. : RIAS
57
Where Walt Whitman lived. : CAMDEN
58
Luxuriant. : LUSH
59
Aficionados. : FANS
60
Grape juice. : STUM
61
Coast dwellers. : ORARIANS
63
Theatre job. : USHERING
65
Filing aids. : TABS
66
Untie. : LOOSEN
67
Most ignoble. : MEANEST
68
Seedcase. : BURR
69
Indigene of Hokkaido. : AINU
70
English given name. : ESME
73
Building wing. : ELL
74
Mr. Rochester's estate. : THORNFIELDMANOR
78
Macaw. : ARA
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Blackthorn. : SLOE
82
19th century cartoonist. : NAST
83
Staff man. : AIDE
84
Chaperones. : DUENNAS
86
Watchers. : SPIERS
88
Ring decisions. : TKOS
89
Poets. : METRISTS
90
Copper city. : ANACONDA
93
Son: Ger. : SOHN
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Pound dwellers. : CURS
95
"He makes no friend who never made ___." : AFOE
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Stroller. : GOCART
97
"Henry IV" character. : PETO
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Chums. : PALS
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Pasture cattle for a price. : AGIST
100
Menu item. : ENTREE
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Swiss city. : AARAU
102
Gimlet. : AWL
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Foretell: Scot. : SPAE
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Limehouse lodging. : DOSS
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Reverters to earlier ways. : REGRESSORS
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Boston's river. : CHARLES
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Airman. : PILOT
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Where Margate is. : KENT
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Eureka! : AHA
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Madison Avenue abbreviation. : ADVT
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Wordsworth's home. : RYDALMOUNT
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Excludes. : DISBARS
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___ excellence. : PAR
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Ammonia derivative. : AMINE
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Via. : ITER
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Home of the Romanovs. : WINTERPALACE
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Opera section. : SCENA
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Your majesty. : SIRE
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Mariana's spouse. : ANGELO
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Egyptian sun god. : HORUS
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Harness pieces. : HAMES
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To be: Lat. : ESSE
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Sycophants. : YESMEN
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Features of Minnesota. : LAKES
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___-mâché : PAPIER
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___ Fideles. : ADESTE
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School kept by Wackford Squeers. : DOTHEBOYSHALL
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Tell's canton. : URI
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Hill dwellers. : ANTS
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Like a sponge. : POROUS
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Truism. : AXIOM
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Pronoun. : THAT
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Parasitic plants. : PINESAPS
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Doting one. : ADORER
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Decad. : TEN
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Smear. : DAUB
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Trees yielding dyestuff. : ANNATTOS
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Papers. : DAILIES
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Stableman. : OSTLER
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House plants. : FERNS
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Notice, as in 14 Down. : OBIT
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Din. : ROAR
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Arm bone. : ULNA
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Arachnid. : MITE
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The Fates. : THREE
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Remedies for sprains. : ARNICAS
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Native of Nevada. : SAGEHEN
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G. B. S. play. : HEARTBREAKHOUSE
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Arm bone. : RADIUS
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Region: Abbr. : TER
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Dandies. : FOPS
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Monkut's home. : SIAM
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Street Arabs. : GAMINS
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Wagner role. : ERDA
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Manner. : MIEN
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___ peur (fearless). : SANS
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Walk: Scot. : GANG
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One who runs full tilt. : CAREERER
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Narrow gorge. : FLUME
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Thrushes. : OUSELS
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Divided into districts. : CANTONED
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Bass. : FISH
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Hindu robe. : SARI
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O'Neill's daughter. : OONA
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Game like baseball. : ROUNDERS
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Coral-like animal. : RETEPORE
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Bird's crest. : TUFT
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Juicy fruit : LIME
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Baroness: Abbr. : BNSS
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Says further. : ADDS
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Novel of 1814. : MANSFIELDPARK
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Helicon was ___ home. : ERATOS
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___ avis. : RARA
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Den dweller. : LION
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Omissions. : OUTS
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Resource. : ASSET
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Famous statuettes. : OSCARS
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Kind of green grape. : NIAGARA
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Time between. : INTERIM
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Take ___ (scold). : TOTASK
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Hebrides isle. : MULL
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Matured. : AGED
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"___, Nanette." : NONO
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Vaudeville turns. : ACTS
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Withered. : SERE
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Bird sounds. : CAWS
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Co-owners. : PARTNERS
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Leave-takings. : PARTINGS
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River into the Paraguay. : APA
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Relatives of guinea pigs. : AGOUTIS
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Biting. : SHARP
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Juvenile heroine. : ELOISE
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Audrey Hepburn role. : ONDINE
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Styx ferryman. : CHARON
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Displaced person: Fr. : EVACUE
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Accent. : STRESS
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Requests. : PLEAS
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White poplar. : ABELE
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Too hasty. : RASH
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Home of many men. : YMCA
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Per ___. : DIEM
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Fatima's sister. : ANNE
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Home of arboreal animal. : TREE
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Pipe part. : STEM
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Satirist Mort. : SAHL
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Route. : WAY
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Mauna ___. : LOA

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11 unique to this puzzle, 10 debuted here and reused later, 12 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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