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J. Samuel Smart
J. Samuel Smart

TRAVEL GUIDE

New York Times, Sunday, January 19, 1986

131-Down : Heavy hammer

Author:
J. Samuel Smart
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 162, Blocks: 92, Avg Word Len: 5.40, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 649 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 155, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 14, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
J. Samuel Smart has 9 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,221
Across
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Beam : SHAFT
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Play the banjo : STRUM
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Awry : AMISS
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Females : SHES
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Arctic : POLAR
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One of the Dryads : ERATO
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French nobles : COMTES
24
Area recommended by Greeley : WEST
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Gush : EMOTE
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River between Devon and Cornwall : TAMAR
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Neon-lights pioneer : CLAUDE
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In addition : ALSO
29
Thomas Wolfe's warning : YOUCANTGOHOMEAGAIN
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Nothing, in Nancy : RIEN
33
Farewells : ADIEUS
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Luckman of football fame : SID
35
Conventional behavior : ORTHODOXY
37
Roanoke group : SETTLERS
40
Peeves : VEXES
42
Suffix with bump : TIOUS
43
Astronomical unit of distance : PARSEC
44
Thins : DILUTES
46
Dinner remnant : ORT
47
"The Princess and the ___" : PEA
50
"___ was going to St. Ives ... " : ASI
51
Word on a wine bottle : SEC
53
Slogan for seafarers : ANYPORTINASTORM
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Rumanian coin : LEU
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Zaragoza's river : EBRO
59
Poet's contraction : EEN
60
Ukrainian saint : OLGA
61
Film actor Herbert : LOM
62
Lorelei, e.g. : SIREN
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New Haven student : ELI
67
Pro ___ : RATA
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Debatable : MOOT
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One who assumes : SUPPOSER
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King in "The Tempest" : ALONSO
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Bus. record : ACCT
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J. H. Payne's advice : THERESNOPLACELIKEHOME
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Air: Comb. form : AERI
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Germany's ___ Republic: 1919-33 : WEIMAR
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Nutritive requirement : VITAMINA
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Hammett's "The ___ Curse" : DAIN
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Bus. corr. entry : ENCL
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Opp. of antonym : SYN
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Precept : CANON
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An NCO : SGT
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Westernmost part of the U.S. : ATTU
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Draw : TIE
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Cinematic King : KONG
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In favor of : FOR
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Judy Garland's suggestion : MEETMEINSTLOUIS
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Calendar abbr. : SEP
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Org. in "Odd Man Out" : IRA
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"Ad astra ___ aspera" : PER
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Part of Q & A : ANS
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Snood : HAIRNET
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___ Malenkov, former U.S.S.R. prime minister : GEORGI
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A river and a cartoonist : ARNOS
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Attachment to a fishing line : SNELL
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Supervised : OVERSEEN
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Burgess beast : PURPLECOW
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Jazzman Winding : KAI
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Toast in Tyrol : PROSIT
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Cut : SNIP
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Travel advice in Italy : ALLROADSLEADTOROME
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Place of intense activity : HIVE
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Olympic sport : DIVING
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Tia's counterpart in Tours : TANTE
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Yugoslav coin : DINAR
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Egyptian solar deity : ATEN
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___ at (scorn) : SNEEZE
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Alpine peak : EIGER
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Beat for Byron : ICTUS
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Pursue (one's way) : WEND
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Curves : ESSES
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Refuse : DROSS
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Viol part : CHOLE
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Scottish river famous for salmon fishing : SPEY
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___ sapiens : HOMO
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Top baseball name since 1958 : ALOU
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Garfield et al. : FATCATS
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Foot-actuated devices : TREADLES
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English or Irish ___ : SETTER
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Part of the ear : TRAGUS
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___ gin fizz : RAMOS
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Beehive State : UTAH
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In an ill-humored way : MOROSELY
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Assume, as an office : ACCEDETO
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Ocean sunfish : MOLA
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Adult insect : IMAGO
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Civil War general : STUART
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Alien and ___ Acts : SEDITION
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Grassy areas : SWARDS
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Sun: Comb. form : HELIO
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Courtier of Elizabeth I : ESSEX
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Unyielding : STONY
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Lady of Lisbon : SENHORA
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Electra, to Menelaus : NIECE
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Muddle : MIXUP
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Inning's sextet : OUTS
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Stone chips : SPALLS
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Remove tactfully, as from office : EASEOUT
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Prevail : TRIUMPH
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Chianti, e.g. : VINO
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Dry : SERE
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Mild expletive : DARN
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Solid unsaturated alcohol found in animal tissue : STEROL
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Type of pony : POLO
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Therefore : ERGO
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Part of a Latin conjugation : AMAT
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Beeswax substitute : CERESIN
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Wycherley's "Love ___ Wood" : INA
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Start of a nursery rhyme : TOMTOM
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City on the Aar : BERN
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Hot under the collar : SORE
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French Alps department : ISERE
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Psychologist Havelock : ELLIS
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Describing certain soils : LOAMY
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Early native of Peru : INCAN
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Receipts at the gate : TAKINGS
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Vinegary chemical prefix : ACETO
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Goober : PEANUT
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Parrot : APE
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Sun. discourse : SER
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Derr Biggers hero : CHAN
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Resembling a ruru : OWLISH
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Lendl of tennis : IVAN
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Artillery accident : MISFIRE
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Glut : ENGORGE
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Transportation recommended by Ellington : ATRAIN
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Like the souls of T. S. Eliot's housemaids : DAMP
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To ___ (exactly) : ATEE
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Path for Pompey : ITER
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Trig. function : CTN
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Something to be counted : COST
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Letters from Piraeus : ETAS
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European canal : KIEL
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A fertilizer : MARL
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N.L. teams, e.g. : ENNEADS
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Geologic feature : ISOCLINE
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Connections : LINKAGES
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Echo was one : OREAD
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Kind of telephone : UNLISTED
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Discharge : EGEST
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Cyclical : PERIODIC
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Two-toed bird : OSTRICH
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Add : APPEND
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Unravels : SOLVES
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Emulates Henry Clay : ORATES
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Electronic voice simulators : VODERS
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Expression of impatience : PSHAW
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Combine : UNITE
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Shattered : RIVEN
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Contorts : WRIES
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Former Hungarian coin : PENGO
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Between dix and douze : ONZE
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Bed for Leo or Elsa : LAIR
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Hip : ONTO
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Heavy hammer : MAUL
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Old tongue : ERSE

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 10 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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