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Richard Silvestri
Richard Silvestri

ACTIVISTS

New York Times, Sunday, January 17, 1982

53-Down : Like a high mass

Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 136, Blocks: 81, Avg Word Len: 5.29, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 517 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 116, Cheaters: 18, FITB: 6, XRef: 0
Richard Silvestri has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 84 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,758
Across
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Practice pedagogy : TEACH
6
Anjou or Seckel : PEAR
10
Live oak : ENCINA
16
Piece of needlework : SAMPLER
18
___ the hills : OLDAS
20
Rode the Robert E. Lee : STEAMED
21
Evidence of error : ERASURE
22
Grip : CLAMP
23
Producing heat : THERMAL
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Ex-Cub saves money : ERNIEBANKS
26
Winglike parts : ALAE
28
Gagarin : YURI
29
"Buenos ___" : DIAS
30
Friend of Larry and Curly : MOE
31
Good for plowing : ARABLE
33
Bill : NEB
34
Still : YET
35
Emcee stops driving : BERTPARKS
38
Vacillate : WAVER
40
Sun, at times : SETTER
43
First sign : ARIES
44
Grieg character : ASE
45
Charged particles : IONS
46
Hair net : SNOOD
47
Diamond "thief" : STEALER
51
Sonnet part : SESTET
54
Capital of Nigeria : LAGOS
55
Star-shaped : STELLATE
56
Movie heroes : IDOLS
57
Comedian is stifled : TOMSMOTHERS
59
Col.'s boss : GEN
60
Unsettle : RILE
61
Helicon : TUBA
62
Clumsy one's expression : OOPS
63
Ilk : SORT
64
British verb ending : ISE
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Poet gets angry : ROBERTBURNS
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Booth item : PHONE
70
Entered the lists : COMPETED
72
Waste maker : HASTE
73
Canted : LEANED
74
Earthworm, for one : ANNELID
75
Many-eyed monster : ARGUS
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Bellow : ROAR
77
Something to cast : DIE
78
American dogwood : OSIER
79
Branch of physics : OPTICS
82
Sorrow : GRIEF
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Showman went up in the world : BILLYROSE
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Syrian weight : OKE
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Serenade the umpire : BOO
90
Sonly or daughterly : FILIAL
92
Wrath : IRE
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Olive genus : OLEA
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Bard's river : AVON
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Cardinal point : EAST
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Playwright digs : ABEBURROWS
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A fate worse than debt : DEFAULT
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Prefix with mural : INTRA
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In trouble : UPATREE
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Small explosive : GRENADE
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Reef material : CORAL
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Certain commuters : DASHERS
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Confers upon : ENDOWS
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Tuesday : WELD
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Molts : SHEDS
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Lingers : TARRIES
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Flow forth : EMANATE
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Orbit point : APSIS
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Aid for Miss Marple : CLUE
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Mace or sage : HERB
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Kind of veto : POCKET
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Building additions : ELLS
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City SSE of Enid : ADA
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Butter of a sort : RAM
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Actress tends to her garden : ETHELWATERS
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Wedding-report word : NEE
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Grant from Bristol : CARY
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Safe from disease : IMMUNE
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Start of an Adams hymn : NEARER
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Comic's forte : ADLIB
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Rundown : SEEDY
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Gadgets for pipes : REAMERS
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Activated : SPARKED
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Use a shiv : STAB
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Correlative : NOR
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Girl for Lauder : LASS
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Melodious : ARIOSO
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Art supporters : EASELS
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Inclination : BENT
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Indications of hunger : PANGS
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Forster's "___ with a View" : AROOM
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Schnitzel ingredient : VEAL
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What Holmes gained : TITLE
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Pedal pentad : TOES
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Philippine island : SAMAR
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Rome's Spanish ___ : STEPS
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Shallow bay : LAGOON
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Forever, poetically : ETERNE
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Let : RENTED
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Watergate judge : SIRICA
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Famed patentee : EDISON
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Like a high mass : SOLEMN
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Adjective for some leaves : LOBED
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Stood out : SHONE
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Formed a hollow cylinder : TUBED
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Law-school subject : TORTS
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Comedienne plays shortstop : TOTIEFIELDS
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Puppeteer Lewis : SHARI
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Bull-pen assistance : RELIEF
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Home-team home run, e.g. : THRILL
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Lox repository : BAGEL
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Shylock's practice : USURY
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Turf fuel : PEAT
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Foot: Comb. form : PEDI
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Run easily : LOPE
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Mongol or Tatar : ASIATIC
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Kane's treasured object : ROSEBUD
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Sashes : OBIS
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Distorted a story : COLORED
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Runs through : SKEWERS
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Rule : GOVERN
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Did thatching : ROOFED
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Coarsely jocular : RIBALD
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Stibnite, e.g. : ORE
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Slackens : EASES
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Merit ___ : BADGE
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Recent : LATE
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" ... ___ Tiger?": Stockton : ORTHE
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One-billionth: Prefix : NANO
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Inland sea : ARAL
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Javanese tree : UPAS
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Reckless : RASH
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Detroit org. : UAW
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Here's partner : NOW
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Due follower : TRE

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