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Bert Rosenfield
Bert Rosenfield

DOUBLED HEADERS

New York Times, Sunday, January 26, 1986

1-Down : Benedictine honorific

Author:
Bert Rosenfield
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 74, Avg Word Len: 5.24, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 514 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 138, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 2, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
Bert Rosenfield has 60 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,228
Across
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See 106 Across : DOSOWELL
9
Shubert ___, N.Y.C. : ALLEY
14
Mitigate : SOLACE
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Do some eavesdropping : OVERHEAR
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Canadian football : ROUGE
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Opposite to the mouth : ABORAL
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Start of a cosmetical inquiry : MIRRORMIRRORONTHEWALL
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Lip : SASS
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Its capital is Beauvais : OISE
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Controversies : HASSLES
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End of a Cohan song : OVEROVERTHERE
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Black, in poesy : EBON
39
Cock-a hoop : ELATED
40
City near Phoenix : MESA
41
Place for a casquette : TETE
45
Famous, in Firenze : NOTO
46
Winner over G.S.M. : RMN
47
Where toves gimbled : WABE
48
Flatfish : SOLES
49
Mel Allen's phrase re a home run : GOINGGOINGGONE
54
Pronounced : SPOKEN
55
Chant : INTONE
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Deserve : EARN
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Abstract : EPITOME
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Certain Bonn votes : NEINS
59
Crown for John Paul II : TIARA
61
Hot wind of Spain : SOLANO
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Yankee sky eye : ESSA
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Bobbin' bird of songdom : REDREDROBIN
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Balm, e.g. : ODOR
70
Captures with a springe : NOOSES
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Whence Greeks sailed for Troy : AULIS
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Rhone feeder : ISERE
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Concurs : ASSENTS
77
He ruled Rome in A.D. 69 : OTHO
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Demonstrated : PROVEN
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Stool pigeon : SNITCH
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Illusory existence : NEVERNEVERLAND
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Dobos or Linzer : TORTE
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___ fide (specious) : MALA
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Sweeter than brut : SEC
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Therefrom, in prescriptions : INDE
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Bide-___, a favorite cottage name : AWEE
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"Granada" song writer : LARA
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Sacramento River dam : SHASTA
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Expensive : DEAR
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Long time, to Tonto : MANYMANYMOONS
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Poetic foot : ANAPEST
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Topsoil : LOAM
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Uruguayan export : WOOL
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With 1 Across, request in a Porter song : DODOTHATVOODOOTHATYOU
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Stand : ENDURE
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"A votre ___!" : SANTE
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Some Roosevelt competitors : TROTTERS
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Patriarch : NESTOR
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Homophone for praise : PREYS
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Dumps, e.g. : EYESORES
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Benedictine honorific : DOM
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Sheep genus : OVIS
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Antitoxins : SERA
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___ Island, Casco Bay locale : ORRS
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Whatever person, old style : WHOSO
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Ballad follower : EER
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O.T. book : LAM
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U.S. fighter plane : LRI
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Make good : ARRIVE
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Untied : LOOSED
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Siren : LURER
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I, to Claudius : EGO
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Itch : YEN
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Sienna brown : SAHARA
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Pyknic : OBESE
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Weather-map areas : LOWS
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Fourth-largest inland sea : ARAL
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Racer Yarborough : CALE
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Problem areas for plumbers : ELLS
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Square or cube follower : ROOT
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"We hold ___ truths ... " : THESE
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Border : VERGE
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Admiral Zumwalt : ELMO
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Hindu V.I.P. : RANI
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A Baker employee : TMAN
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Greek counterpart of Romans' Juventas : HEBE
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Energy converter : ENGINE
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Pat and Richard : BOONES
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Ear trouble : OTITIS
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A 1925 musical : NONONANETTE
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Specifying Hamlet's body : TOOTOOSOLID
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City on the Humboldt : ELKO
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Be rife : TEEM
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Ancient field hand : ESNE
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___ ton (Oriental dumpling) : WON
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Laundry cycle : SPIN
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Old Eng. coins : GNS
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Edges up on : NEARS
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"Beware!" in Bourges : GARE
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Shade into one another : GRADATE
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Nine inches : SPAN
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Site of first Olympics : ELIS
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Storm-country lady : TESS
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Orfe : IDE
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One of Greece's Seven Wise Men : SOLON
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Kimono securer : OBI
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He wrote "Our Gang" : ROTH
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Mülheim an der ___ : RUHR
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He portrayed a Kennedy on TV : DEVANE
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Iroquoian magic power : ORENDA
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Process blubber : RENDER
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As soon as : ONCE
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Stamp on some sale garments : IRR
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The Charles's wirehair : ASTA
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It's prized at Stowe : SNOW
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Filly's pop : SIRE
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Egg-shaped ornaments : OVA
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Praline ingredient : PECAN
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Not one, country style : NARY
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Old kingdom also called Susiana : ELAM
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It, in Italy : ESSO
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U.N. roadblock : VETO
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Packsaddle canvas : MANTA
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Simon Legree, for one : LASHER
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Supercilious : SNOOTY
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Weepy daughters of Atlas : HYADES
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G.I. requirement : AMMO
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Parisian chemin de fer : METRO
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Schwartz's "___ Together": 1932 : ALONE
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Bats gnats : SWATS
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Arabian port : ADEN
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Word after bar : NONE
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Tots : ADDS
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Bullhead : POUT
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Lyricist Harbach : OTTO
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Terminer's partner : OYER
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What savants are steeped in : LORE
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Cooking meas. : TSP
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Electrical unit : VAR
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Capri ending : OTE
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Word with square or gun : TRY
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Scuffle : HOE
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Seagoing initials : USS

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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