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Reichert
Reichert

New York Times, Friday, October 5, 1984

13-Down : Backslide

Author:
Reichert
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 27, Avg Word Len: 5.50, Missing: { J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 92, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Reichert has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,750
Across
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Used an insecticide : SPRAYED
8
Cold-hearted one : ICEBERG
15
Introduction : PRELUDE
16
Tar : MARINER
17
Government : REGIMEN
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Babble : PRATTLE
19
Japanese apricot : UME
20
Fauna : ANIMALS
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Drivers' org. : AAA
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One of R.W.R.'s titles : CINC
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Sheets for salts : SAILS
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Douceurs : TIPS
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Founded: Abbr. : ESTAB
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Cole Porter's "___ Clown" : BEA
30
Beat : PULSE
31
Ravages : DESPOILS
33
Yakked : GASSED
34
That one, in Rome : ILLE
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Royal treasury : FISC
36
Smelters' mixtures : MATTES
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Garrets : MANSARDS
43
Comte de la Fère : ATHOS
44
Tillie the Toiler's boyfriend : MAC
45
Don's January : ENERO
46
Wainscot : CEIL
47
Hit hard : PASTE
49
River into the North Sea : YSER
50
Pacino and Capone : ALS
51
Egress for Ed Norton : MANHOLE
53
Pavior's material : TAR
54
Swamp bird : BITTERN
56
Late afternoon in England : TEATIME
58
Unfasten : RELEASE
59
Solve : UNRAVEL
60
Put up : ERECTED
61
Annual golf tournament at Augusta : MASTERS
Down
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Decked out, with "up" : SPRUCED
2
Part of a syllogism : PREMISE
3
Interim rulers : REGENTS
4
Clay, presently : ALI
5
Arizona Indian : YUMA
6
Utopias : EDENS
7
Like a weak argument : DENIABLE
8
Prey for a pride : IMPALA
9
Reiner and Jung : CARLS
10
Periods : ERAS
11
Restraint of a sort : BIT
12
Involves : ENTAILS
13
Backslide : RELAPSE
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Bribed : GREASED
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Architect ___ van der Rohe : MIES
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Building for solons : CAPITOL
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Florence is here : TUSCANY
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Actor in "Stella Dallas" : BOLES
30
Old hat : PASSE
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They, in Tours : ILS
33
Kind of mill : GIN
35
Jack-of-all-trades : FACTOTUM
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Like a Poe tale : MACABRE
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Studio : ATELIER
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Emblem of Scotland : THISTLE
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Livestock feed : MASH
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Fidgety : RESTIVE
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Mitty, for one : DREAMER
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Plants having sour juice : SORRELS
44
Provided troops : MANNED
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Analyze grammatically : PARSE
48
Gluck's "Paride ed ___" : ELENA
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Kernel : MEAT
52
Matadors' prizes : EARS
55
P.I. : TEC
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Make an edging : TAT

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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