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Don Groat
Don Groat

New York Times, Wednesday, October 14, 1992

9-Down : Sampled

Author:
Don Groat
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Don Groat has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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P
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O
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K
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E
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V
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E
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T
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S
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T
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E
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R
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S
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E
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A
P
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X
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A
L
O
P
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A
M
E
N
D
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P
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N
T
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S
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R
I
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S
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N
O
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N
S
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C
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K
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N
O
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H
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E
E
E
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T
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L
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D
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A
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G
G
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R
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G
L
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D
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E
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A
F
O
U
L
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B
E
E
S
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M
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E
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S
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A
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R
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N
I
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S
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N
S
E
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B
R
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N
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E
R
G
S
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E
A
R
S
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A
L
D
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N
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H
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A
R
T
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C
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S
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I
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S
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M
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C
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B
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T
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H
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R
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T
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W
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R
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U
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T
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R
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A
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A
V
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N
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D
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S
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M
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E
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C
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T
© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,681
Across
1
Kind of bonnet : POKE
5
Animal docs : VETS
9
Concise : TERSE
14
Tip or top : APEX
15
Off-center : ALOP
16
Improve : AMEND
17
Confined : PENT
18
Delhi garb : SARI
19
Miser Marner : SILAS
20
"There is ___" (Start of a Byron quotation) : NOINSTINCTLIKE
23
A Webster : NOAH
24
Shoe width for Bigfoot? : EEE
25
___ Aviv : TEL
26
Dirk : DAGGER
29
Open area in the woods : GLADE
31
Run ___ of the law : AFOUL
32
Apiarist's concern : BEES
33
City near Phoenix : MESA
37
Rajah's wife : RANI
38
Import : SENSE
39
English machine gun : BREN
40
Desert areas : ERGS
41
Corn spikes : EARS
42
A Mayflower passenger : ALDEN
43
He wrote "The Luck of Roaring Camp" : HARTE
45
Frees from dirt : CLEANS
46
Tenet : ISM
49
Cato's 102 : CII
50
Sometimes it's lowered : BOOM
51
End of the Byron quotation : THATOFTHEHEART
56
Electrician, often : WIRER
57
Central African river : UELE
58
Mitchell locale : TARA
60
Of birds : AVIAN
61
Surrealist Salvador : DALI
62
Inflexible : IRON
63
Ore strata : SEAMS
64
German reservoir : EDER
65
Ten mills : CENT
Down
1
Baby food : PAP
2
Hit Broadway : OPEN
3
Numbers game : KENO
4
Snuff out : EXTINGUISH
5
College named for a brewer : VASSAR
6
Gulf of Aqaba port : ELATH
7
Convex moldings : TORI
8
Cowardly : SPINELESS
9
Sampled : TASTED
10
Painter Nolde : EMIL
11
Illuminated again : RELIT
12
Plumber's pipe cleaner : SNAKE
13
A Ford : EDSEL
21
Christmas song : NOEL
22
Discontinue : CEASE
26
Take a risk : DARE
27
From a distance : AFAR
28
Tam-tam : GONG
29
Type : GENRE
30
Representative : EMBLEMATIC
32
"Blessed are the meek," for one : BEATITUDE
34
Wagnerian earth goddess : ERDA
35
"Wars I Have ___": G. Stein : SEEN
36
Jillian and Blyth : ANNS
38
Letter embellishment : SERIF
42
Source of a bitter drug : ALOE
44
Oak producers : ACORNS
45
Joint inheritor : COHEIR
46
"___ So Beautiful," 1932 song : ITWAS
47
Flax splinter : SHIVE
48
"West Side Story" heroine : MARIA
50
Pretty woman : BELLE
52
Bulls or Bears : TEAM
53
Pin or piece preceder : HEAD
54
Uncommon : RARE
55
Disney sci-fi movie : TRON
59
Formicary occupant : ANT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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