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Treusch
Treusch

New York Times, Saturday, October 23, 1982

44-Down : Stringcourse

Author:
Treusch
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J K Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Treusch has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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D
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A
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F
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F
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Y
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M
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A
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L
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D
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U
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S
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A
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B
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M
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C
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S
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H
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G
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A
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D
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D
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U
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P
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P
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C
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E
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S
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S
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C
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N
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T
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D
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F
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V
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Y
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A
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R
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D
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C
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A
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R
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R
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E
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V
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O
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M
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R
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R
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O
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M
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A
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R
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P
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E
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T
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S
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Y
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D
67
E
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,037
Across
1
Zany : DAFFY
6
He wrote "The Assistant" : MALAMUD
13
Passionate : AMOROUS
16
Tender: Mus. dir. : AMABILE
17
Olio : MIXTURE
18
Peppery card game : CAYENNE
19
"Quiet, please!" : SSH
20
Toothed wheels : GEARS
22
Pop : DAD
23
Capitalizes : UPPERCASES
28
Father of II : SENIOR
30
Kind of plan : AMERICAN
34
Clan emblems : TOTEMS
35
Set apart : DEDICATE
36
Start of a Faulkner title : ASI
37
Brother : FRA
38
Concord field : VINEYARD
44
Pursuit : CAREER
47
Dürer was one : ENGRAVER
48
Emulates Aeschines : ORATES
49
Improve : AMELIORATE
51
Pile at a publishing co. : MSS
54
Quick : RAPID
55
Ethiopian prince : RAS
58
Fast-food mart : AUTOMAT
61
Glider pilot's art : SOARING
64
Debrett's subject : PEERAGE
65
Competitor : ENTRANT
66
Deviated : STRAYED
67
Sigmoids : ESSES
Down
1
Cougar and Oroville : DAMS
2
Author of "The Green Man" : AMIS
3
"Tallyho!" sport : FOXHUNTING
4
Shpg. item : FRT
5
Thou : YOU
6
Knotty problem, perhaps : MACRAME
7
Heaped : AMASSED
8
Word after 36 Across : LAY
9
John V.'s successor : ABE
10
Matter conqueror : MIND
11
Part of a skeleton : ULNA
12
Quitclaim : DEED
14
Rooters : URGERS
15
One with ESP : SEER
21
Learned assoc. : ACAD
24
Blackbirds' enclosure in rhyme : PIE
25
Mum : POM
26
"___ tu," Verdi aria : ERI
27
Command to a dog : SIC
28
Crush inward : STAVE
29
Red dye : EOSIN
31
Busy places at noon : CAFETERIAS
32
"___ that may in summer ... " : ATREE
33
Approaches : NEARS
39
Controversial initials : ERA
40
Camote : YAM
41
Bowler's arithmetic : AVERAGE
42
Consanguineous : RELATED
43
Nerd : DRIP
44
Stringcourse : CORDON
45
Screw pine : ARA
46
Prairie dog's cousin : RAT
50
River of France : OISE
51
Surveyors' products : MAPS
52
Tallow source : SUET
53
Silver mark: Abbr. : STER
56
Henry VIII's fourth : ANNE
57
Top kicks, for short : SGTS
59
Anatomical openings : ORA
60
Might, in the present : MAY
62
Banished Olympian : ATE
63
NKP, SAL et al. : RRS

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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