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McDowell
McDowell

New York Times, Saturday, January 9, 1988

51-Down : Wroth

Author:
McDowell
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.76, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
McDowell has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 13,941
Across
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Dixie shop? : STOA
5
Février follower : MARS
9
Norm, to a G.I. : SOP
12
Expectant Indian? : HOPI
13
Gives a yegg a leg up : ABETS
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Trepidation : FEAR
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___ P., Dickens character : AGED
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Return to country of birth : REPATRIATE
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What Venus said at Melos? : FAREWELLTOARMS
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Hebrew letter : TSADI
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Shrieks : YELLS
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Symbolic welcome : LEI
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She wrote "Golden Days" : SEE
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Parcel: Abbr. : BDL
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Most inhuman : CRUELEST
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Elephant's-ear : TARO
36
Protection by seven-footers? : LONGARMOFTHELAW
40
Señorita's "Stop!" : ALTO
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Hardboard : MASONITE
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Avant-gardist : NEO
43
Mess-hall assts. : KPS
46
Pos. opposite : NEG
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Actress Gillette : ANITA
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Wrongly : AMISS
54
Workers' force? : OCCUPATIONARMY
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Kramdens' activity : QUARRELING
59
Leo's lodge : LAIR
60
Borgia in-law : ESTE
61
Relish : SAVOR
62
"___, Brute!" : ETTU
63
Whittier's "Laus ___!" : DEO
64
Littler or Wilder : GENE
65
Amphibious vehicle : SEEP
Down
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Arrow : SHAFT
2
Justices' robes : TOGAS
3
Salieri's "Tarare," e.g. : OPERA
4
Played the paraclete : AIDED
5
Dark lunar area : MARE
6
Killer of Eric IV : ABEL
7
Comply with an R.S.V.P. : REPLY
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Says : STATES
9
Ridge : SEAM
10
Grouts : OATS
11
Grand ___, Nova Scotia : PRE
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Tippet's kin : STOLE
15
Sapins : FIRS
18
Subject of "Carabasset" : RALE
20
Author Cather : WILLA
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Chariot chaser : EER
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Doctrine : ISM
27
Indonesian isle : BALI
28
W. C. Fields expletive : DRAT
29
Actor Edmund ___ : LOWE
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Clique : CLAN
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Cameo, for one : ROLE
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Ruskin's "___ This Last" : UNTO
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Conceit : EGO
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Porker purloiner : TOM
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Second highest pinochle card : TEN
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Devotee : FAN
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Half a fly : TSE
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Navajo dwelling : HOGAN
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Sylvan knot : KNUR
44
Dudeens : PIPES
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Locus for "Hogan's Heroes" : STALAG
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Tart, in Tours : ACRE
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Suffix with form : ATIVE
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Cob and buck : MALES
51
Wroth : IRATE
52
Strike : SMITE
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Pancake topper : SYRUP
54
York's river : OUSE
55
Addison tragedy : CATO
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Privy to : INON
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Blunderbore, e.g. : OGRE
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Geometer's P.S. : QED

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

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