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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Thursday, January 13, 1983

13-Down : She gained access to Hollywood

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,119
Across
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Cries like a coyote : HOWLS
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Cuff : SLAP
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Greedy : AVID
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Prufrock's creator : ELIOT
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Covering for a cave man : HIDE
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"You ___ My Head" : GOTO
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Oblivion : LIMBO
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Vanquish : OVERPOWER
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Riotous group's activity : MOBBING
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Unselfish people : SHARERS
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Meeting hall : LYCEUM
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Tests of a sort : ORALS
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A Tarzan playmate : APE
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Bitter hostility : ANIMUS
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French sculptor: 1840–1917 : RODIN
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" ... ___ than lions": II Samuel : STRONGER
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Without companionship : ALONE
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Hwys. : RDS
40
People of Scandinavia : NORSE
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Romeo was one : MONTAGUE
43
Laurel and Kenton : STANS
44
Cesar of films : ROMERO
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Bottom-line figure : NET
48
Like old blue jeans : FADED
51
Thingumbob : DOODAD
54
"Marseillaise" composer, Rouget ___ : DELISLE
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Baffled : STUMPED
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Restless : IMPATIENT
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Sculptor's work : TORSO
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Expression of approval : AMEN
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Swiss painter: 1879–1940 : KLEE
64
Unlawful activity : CRIME
65
Horne from Brooklyn : LENA
66
Rubberneck : EYER
67
Evil spells : HEXES
Down
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Tiller : HELM
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Hodgepodge : OLIO
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Connors won here in 1982 : WIMBLEDON
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Pressure group : LOBBY
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Zeno was one : STOIC
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Clavell best seller : SHOGUN
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Ingmar protégée : LIV
8
Punches for parched people : ADES
9
Wage-rate phrase : PERHOUR
10
Marketplace : AGORA
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I or e, i.e. : VOWEL
12
Brain passages : ITERS
13
She gained access to Hollywood : DORS
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Estelle or Louella : PARSONS
21
Educ. group : NEA
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Wrongful act : MISDEED
26
Ancient Syria : ARAM
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He visited Cathay : POLO
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Everest and Etna: Abbr. : MTS
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What's Watt's dept.? : INT
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Proximate : NEAREST
34
"___ on your life!" : NOT
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Event at Le Mans : GRANDPRIX
36
Relative of a ceorl : ESNE
37
Direction from Delius : REST
39
Cuba-libre base : RUM
42
Divine : GODLIKE
45
List of names : ROSTER
46
Not in, Glasgow style : OOT
48
___ fatale : FEMME
49
Word with stock or horn : ALPEN
50
Prince William's mother : DIANA
52
Kind of oven : DUTCH
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Love, in Firenze : AMORE
54
Select a TV program : DIAL
55
Slippery : EELY
57
Salinger girl : ESME
58
Forest creatures : DOES
60
Marriage-report word : NEE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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