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Bert Beaman
Bert Beaman

HERE AND THERE

New York Times, Sunday, January 21, 1973

77-Down : Barracuda

Author:
Bert Beaman
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 136, Blocks: 66, Avg Word Len: 5.51, Missing: { J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 545 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 126, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 20
Bert Beaman has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1973, The New York TimesNo. 8,562
Across
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___ Bill : PECOS
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African gazelle : ADMI
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Alfresco site : PATIO
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Girl's name : ESME
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Ecstatic feeling : EXALTATION
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One way to get a degree : INABSENTIA
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Brain passage of a sort : STREAMOFCONSCIOUSNESS
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Mouth: Prefix : ORI
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Affluence : PELF
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Mort : SAHL
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Like some dishes : SUETY
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Bag, in Madrid : SACO
31
Approve : SEEFIT
34
Earth pigment: Fr. : OCRE
37
Some verbs: Abbr. : IRR
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Baby-sitters : NANAS
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Cash in Capetown : RAND
41
Marshmallow event : ROAST
43
River of Congo Republic : LUA
45
Keep from : DETER
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Relinquish : CEDE
47
Heavens: Prefix : ASTR
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Curtains for Cleo : ASP
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Ubiquitous quartet : FOURCORNERSOFTHEEARTH
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Major, in music : DUR
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Nile denizen, for short : CROC
57
Spasm : THROE
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Rachmaninoff : SERGEI
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Mao ___-tung : TSE
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Reeds : OBOES
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Kind of test : ACID
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Prunes, in Scotland : SNEDS
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Org. : ASSN
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Porter in Mideast : HAMAL
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Disgorge: Var. : SPUE
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Artery: Fr. : AORTE
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Chinese wax : PELA
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Ball: Prefix : SPHER
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Stipulations : IFS
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Neighbor of Albania : GREECE
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Poker move : RAISE
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Actress June : LANG
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Pile : NAP
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With Street, it's a bank : OLDLADYOFTHREADNEEDLE
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"___ a jolly ... " : HES
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Famous loch : NESS
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French river : ORNE
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Keats, for one : ODIST
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Symbol of durability : OAK
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Pines : TREES
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Land mass, to French : ASIE
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Assured : ONICE
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Neighbor of Col. : NEB
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North: Prefix : ARCT
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Man of the cloth : RECTOR
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U.S. sculptor : TAFT
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Cat: Prefix : AILUR
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Yen : URGE
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Island off Alaska : ADAK
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Numerical prefix : TRI
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Extreme accuracy : MATHEMATICALPRECISION
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Have ___ (know by heart) : INONESHEAD
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Survivor of Field's dog-cat fight : NEITHERONE
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Early slave : ESNE
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Examples : CASES
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Mardi ___ : GRAS
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Makes fruit wine : VINTS
Down
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Coins of Sonora : PESOS
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Unrelated : EXTRANEOUS
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Burlesque : CARICATURE
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Corrida cry : OLE
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Stave, in Scotland : STAP
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Cooked cornmeal : ATOLE
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"Vive la ___" : DIFFERENCE
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Shoe, for short : MOC
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Daughter of Cadmus : INO
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European tourist spot : PISA
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Secure : ANCHOR
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Like some bridegrooms : TAILCOATED
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Nigerian : IBO
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Big Ten initials : OSU
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Boredom : ENNUI
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Guide a ship loosely : STEERLARGE
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Was skeptical : MISTRUSTED
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___ does it : EASY
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In ___ (confused) : AMESS
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Letter : ESS
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Fitted compactly: Abbr. : NSTD
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Unusual person : ONER
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Cover, in a game : FADE
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Sluggish : INERT
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Indiscreet : RASH
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___ Park : ESTES
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Math term : ARCCOSECANT
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Nursery doctor : TREESURGEON
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Plant pest : APHIS
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Modern insecticide : DFDT
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"Learn to ___" : CROON
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Globes : ORBS
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Babylonian sun god : SHAMASH
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Whale : ORCA
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Thwarts : FOILS
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English composer : ARNE
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Bundle : SHEAF
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Defective: Prefix : ATEL
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Touched down : ALIT
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Nuance : SHADE
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Famous Quaker : PENN
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Horsetail tree : AGOHO
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Certain Southerners : ORLEANIANS
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TV-movie critic : REDSKELTON
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Does D. A. duty : PROSECUTES
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Hayden and Adler : PLANETARIA
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Sign : INDICATION
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Pretense : FALSEFRONT
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Barracuda : SPET
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Ivy, in Italy : EDERA
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Irregular : EROSE
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Fr. river : YSER
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Ambler : ERIC
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Revise : EDIT
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Minute grooves : STRIAE
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Kind of code : AREA
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Edible plant : ORACH
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Stage, in Berlin : BUHNE
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U. S. playwright : ODETS
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Points : TINES
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French friend : AMIE
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Arikara : REE
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Math units: Abbr. : GCDS
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City on the Dnieper : KIEV
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College degree : MSC
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Exclamation : AHA
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Coat part: Abbr. : LNG
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___ se : PER
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Indian title : SRI

Answer summary:
13 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 20 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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