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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

URBANITES

New York Times, Sunday, October 11, 1981

101-Down : Clobbers

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 70, Avg Word Len: 5.38, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 552 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 122, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 16, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,660
Across
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Small flounders : DABS
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Aides et al. : STAFF
10
Ice pinnacle : SERAC
15
___ cry : AFAR
19
Gelatinous substance : AGAR
20
Victor Herbert played it : CELLO
21
___ acids : AMINO
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Euphonium : TUBA
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Golf area : TEE
28
Phooey! : NUTS
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London's ___ End : EAST
30
Daze : BEMUSE
31
Henpecks : CARPS
33
Kind of terrier : SKYE
34
QE2, e.g. : LINER
35
"Oh, give me ___ ... " : AHOME
37
Painter called "The Cornish Wonder" : OPIE
39
Troubadour : BARD
40
Tape-speed abbr. : IPS
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Circular headgear : TAMS
50
Come-on : SNARE
51
Afflict : RACK
52
Kind of rocket : RETRO
53
Pablo's gold : ORO
54
Like a bump on ___ : ALOG
55
Jabberwocky adjective : SLITHY
57
Quickly, to Ovid : CITO
58
Turncoats : RENEGADES
61
Mountain winder : ESS
62
Shoe part : TOECAP
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Subjoin : APPEND
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Ship's channel : GAT
72
German shepherd : POLICEDOG
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He kayoed Carnera : BAER
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Price for Red Chief : RANSOM
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Nuchal area : NAPE
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Orinoco tributary : ARO
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Moving : ASTIR
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Personalities : EGOS
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Humiliate : ABASE
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Con ___ (vigorously) : BRIO
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Projection : EAR
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Vaunt : BRAG
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Sums: Abbr. : AMTS
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Whence Chianti comes : ITALY
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Thermoplastic : SARAN
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Numerical prefix : OCTO
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Colorado resort : ASPEN
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Anthropologist's adjective : ETHNIC
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Source of roughage : BRAN
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Civil rights org. : ACLU
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Asner and Wynn : EDS
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"This one's ___" : ONME
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Functions : ROLES
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Barrage : STORM
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Orison : PLEA
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Flatten, in Soho : RASE
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Salad days : YOUTH
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Shevchenko : TARAS
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Famed puppeteer : SARG
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Dress detail : DART
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Malarial woe : AGUE
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"Art thou ___ and popular?": Shak. : BASECOMMON
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Grads-to-be : SRS
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Diving duck : SCAUP
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Bivouacs : TENTS
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Kin of rochets : ALBS
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Polly Holliday's TV role : FLO
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Fronts : FORESIDES
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Impudent : SASSY
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Indulge in cabotinage : EMOTE
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"Oysters ___ season" : RIN
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Sharp-cornered: Abbr. : ANG
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It builds no nests : COWBIRD
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Wicker's "___ to Die" : ATIME
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Like much sci-fi : FUTURISTIC
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Fortas and Burrows : ABES
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Exceptional : RARE
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"The Lady ___," 1935 song : INRED
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Exposed : NAKED
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Interpret : RENDER
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Singer Nancy : AMES
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Spare : LANKY
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One in a cast : ACTOR
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Viscount Templewood : HOARE
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Catapult : ONAGER
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___ diem : PER
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"Illusions" author : BACH
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Napoli gateway : PORTA
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Busybody : SNOOP
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Ellis or Parris : ISLAND
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Electron-tube element : ANODE
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Kind of setter : IRISH
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Really goes for : EATSUP
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Diminish : RECEDE
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Dramatic conflict : AGON
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Swift, in Siena : LESTO
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Female adviser : EGERIA
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Messina mister : SIGNOR
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Far East capital : TAIPEI
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Quondam : ONCE
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Rodeo gear : LASSO
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Undersea trackers : SONARS
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Lambaste : BLAST
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Slacken : ABATE
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Turkish V.I.P., once : PASHA
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Heavy wool overcoats : PETERSHAMS
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Song hit of 1919 : DARDANELLA
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Mirador : ORIEL
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Lamebrain : GOONY
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Actress from Limerick: 1860-1916 : REHAN
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Eagerly anticipating : AGOG
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Pursuer of wealth : MAMMONIST
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Gloss : RUBRIC
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Vespertilio : BAT
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___ noire : BETE
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Gothic openwork : TRACERY
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Catastrophic : FATAL
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Acrobatic feat : NIPUP
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Pierre's year : ANNEE
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___ trouvé : OBJET
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Pulverize : CRUSH
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Ghana's capital : ACCRA
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Clobbers : SLAMS
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___ effort : EFOR
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Singer Turner : TINA
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Suffix with comment : ATOR
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Whitetail : DEER
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Part of hippocerf : STAG
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"___ Ernest ... ," 1922 song : OOO
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Achy ailment : FLU
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Greek vowel : ETA
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Boosts : UPS

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10 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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