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Nancy Nicholson Joline
Nancy Nicholson Joline

New York Times, Thursday, January 31, 1991

4-Down : Island in the Moluccas

Author:
Nancy Joline
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Nancy Nicholson Joline has 61 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 48 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Nancy Joline is an alias for Nancy Nicholson Joline.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,059
Across
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Arab's robe : ABA
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Maple genus : ACER
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Boat of the Far East : SAMPAN
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Gibbon : LAR
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Actor O'Shea : MILO
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Interstice : AREOLE
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What convalescents need : TLC
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Game fish : BASS
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Kindle : IGNITE
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Ike and Tina Turner hit : OOHPOOPAHDOO
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Kind of dome : ONION
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Prior, in poesy : ERE
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Vestige : TRACE
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Granular snow : NEVE
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Fusses : STIRS
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Egyptian deity : AMON
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Affirmative : AYE
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Words from a hit of The Five Stairsteps : OOHOOHCHILD
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Oahu drink : AVA
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Greek island : IOS
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Dizzy Gillespie number : OOPBOPSHBAM
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Supreme Being : GOD
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Large land mass : ASIA
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Litigators : SUERS
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Where to find Machu Picchu : PERU
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Young horses : FOALS
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___-Magnon : CRO
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Restorative : TONIC
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Lloyd Price pop hit : OOOHOOOHOOOH
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Without a key : ATONAL
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Eric of "Monty Python" : IDLE
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Yalie : ELI
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Containing no meat or milk, in Judaism : PAREVE
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Beatty and Rorem : NEDS
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Bishopric : SEE
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Expunges : ERASES
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Gaelic : ERSE
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Double curve : ESS
Down
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City 90 miles E of Pittsburgh : ALTOONA
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Bunk! : BALONEY
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Extensive collection of data : ARCHIVE
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Island in the Moluccas : AMBON
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So long, in Siena : CIAO
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Huxley who wrote about Africa : ELSPETH
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Argentine port : ROSARIO
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Uttered : SAID
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Jargon : ARGOT
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Hanukkah candelabra : MENORAHS
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Hawaiian taro dish : POI
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Old, in Oldenburg : ALT
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Born : NEE
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"Lenore" poet : POE
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Hoagie, e.g. : HERO
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French friend : AMI
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Mountain pass : COL
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Conclude : END
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Daytime TV fare : SOAPS
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Members of a branch of Islam : SHIAS
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Ab ___ (from the start) : OVO
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Naval off. : COM
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Sea mollusks : ABALONES
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Dolt : OAF
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Barcelona bear : OSO
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Actress Zadora : PIA
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Similar : SUCH
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Juliet or Viola : HEROINE
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Chicken-farm structure : BROODER
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Columbus, e.g. : GENOESE
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Firebirds : ORIOLES
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Dukes' domains : DUCHIES
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Nanki-___ ("Mikado" role) : POO
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Dry white wine : SOAVE
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"___ Foolish Things ... " : THESE
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Corrida sounds : OLES
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Auto pioneer : OLDS
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Rue Morgue murderer : APE
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Seaman : TAR
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"___ pro nobis" : ORA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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