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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

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New York Times, Sunday, January 18, 1981

87-Down : Mielziner designs

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 136, Blocks: 78, Avg Word Len: 5.34, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 546 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 113, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 10, XRef: 2, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,394
Across
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Pedestal feature : DADO
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Varnish ingredient : COPAL
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Grackles : DAWS
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"Industry" is its motto : UTAH
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Jannings : EMIL
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Idolize : ADORE
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Engaged in : ABOUT
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Neighbor of Java : BALI
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Dart thrust into el toro : BANDERILLA
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Punctured : PERFORATED
27
Headline subject: 1912 : THEWRECKOFTHETITANIC
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"___ Got Sixpence" : IVE
30
Free electron : ION
31
Forming a corner: Abbr. : ANG
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Broadway hit: 1937 : HAVINGWONDERFULTIME
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Classical medico : GALEN
43
Inside vocabulary : LINGO
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Mitigates : EASES
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Stately tree : ELM
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Rice team : OWLS
48
Very well : FINE
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Fastened, in a way : LACED
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Etui or pomander : CASE
51
Honshu bay : ISE
52
Underworld units : GANGS
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Trustworthy : SOLID
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See 4 Down : TALES
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Slight : NEGLECT
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Barker's aide : SHILL
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Some of us : MEN
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Film of 1965, with "The" : GREATESTSTORYEVERTOLD
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Wall St. term : PUT
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Illinois airport : OHARE
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Obtrusive one : IMPOSER
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Sewed rapidly : RANUP
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Bright : SMART
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Gulae : OGEES
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Fr. title : MME
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Unbalanced : ALOP
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Transmission components : GEARS
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Car part : COWL
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"___ Lisa" : MONA
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James Jones's heroes : GIS
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Blue shade : SLATE
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Count, for one : TITLE
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Crude broom : BESOM
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Statue of Apollo by Chares : THECOLOSSUSOFRHODES
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Ending with cash or cloth : IER
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___-Magnon : CRO
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"___ Belong to Me" : YOU
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Lloyd C. Douglas novel : MAGNIFICENTOBSESSION
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Barge hand : LIGHTERMAN
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A la chinoise : ORIENTALLY
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" ... care'll kill ___": Jonson : ACAT
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Bay of the ___ : SEINE
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Correggio lived here : PARMA
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El Bahr : NILE
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Nabokov novel : MARY
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Tolkien creatures : ENTS
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Arnall of Ga. : ELLIS
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Center : SEAT
Down
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Red-ink entry : DEBT
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Wuhan nanny : AMAH
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Eat out : DINE
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With 54 Across, bits of lore : OLDWIVES
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Lurch : CAREEN
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Lyrical : ODIC
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"Young Hickory" : POLK
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Guthrie : ARLO
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Turning the pages : LEAFING
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Opera by R. Strauss : DAPHNE
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Letters before cee : ABEE
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Herbaceous plant : WORT
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Moslem mystic : SUFI
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Congo border river : UBANGI
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Famed pantomimist : TATI
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A Waugh : ALEC
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Camouflaged : HID
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Wrecked completely : TOTALED
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Songwriter Drake : ERVIN
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Emulates a devil chaser : RANTS
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Contretemps upshot : TODO
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Mooring line : HAWSER
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Offer, as a plea : ALLEGE
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Coruscates : GLINTS
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Let fly : WING
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"Snake eyes" : ONES
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Indeed : REALLY
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Glib : FACILE
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Wielded : USED
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Fast breaker : MEAL
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Lord High Everything ___ : ELSE
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Departure : GOING
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"Allons, ___ enfants ... " : MES
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Plane surface : FACET
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Tours's river : LOIRE
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Dantean division : CANTO
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Outfit : GETUP
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Unawares : SHORT
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U. of Maryland team : TERPS
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Go for eagerly : LAPUP
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Reference marks : STARS
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Baltic port : MEMEL
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Marinara base : TOMATO
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Parts of plows : SHARES
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Panopticon : VIEWER
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Diffuse, in a way : OSMOSE
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Kástron's isle : LEMNOS
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Oneiric image : DREAM
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Tease : RAG
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Lodged : ALIT
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Snack : NOSH
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Cachet : SEAL
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Numerical prefix : OCTO
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"A good walk spoiled": Twain : GOLF
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Nimbi : GLORIES
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Jellyfish : MEDUSANS
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Olfactory stimulus : SCENT
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Curdle : TURN
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Ionium, e.g. : ISOTOPE
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Encouragement : BOOST
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Septuagenarian's goal : EIGHTY
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Mielziner designs : SCENES
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Veld scavengers : HYENAS
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Fuchsite, e.g. : MICA
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Source of gelose : AGAR
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Untrammeled : FREE
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"___ the Mood ... " : IMIN
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Quitter's word : CANT
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___ Roberts U. : ORAL
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Roleo verb : BIRL
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Trucker's rig : SEMI
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Nastase : ILIE
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Casa pot : OLLA
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Denial in Dudinka : NYET
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O.T. book : LAM

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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