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Emanuel Berg
Emanuel Berg

PORCINE PARADE

New York Times, Sunday, November 26, 1978

95-Down : Reticulate

Author:
Emanuel Berg
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 71, Avg Word Len: 5.36, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 563 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 116, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 15
Emanuel Berg has 9 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,610
Across
1
Like a crow's cry : HOARSE
7
Gnat or brat : PEST
11
Prefix with fix or fuse : TRANS
16
Item unfit for a silk purse : SOWSEAR
17
Large toad : AGUA
18
Asian goat antelopes : SEROWS
20
Footballs : PIGSKINS
21
Korean battle site : PORKCHOPHILL
24
Chemical suffixes : OLS
25
Grieg's dancer : ANITRA
27
Best place for wurst : DELI
28
Decalogue mount : SINAI
29
Oven for glass : LEHR
31
Brock's specialties : STEALS
33
"___ and Marge" : MYRT
35
One-year-old sheep : TEGS
36
Ginglymoid joints : KNEES
38
Opposite of yang : YIN
39
Summer drink : ICEDTEA
42
Sunshine St. : FLA
43
Evangeline's home : ACADIA
45
Wink : NICTATE
47
Strolls : AMBLES
49
Passover feasts : SEDARIM
51
Untrue! : NOTSO
52
Babylonian Hades : ARALU
53
A descendant of Noah : PELEG
55
Shea player : MET
56
Objects : PROTESTS
59
In many instances : OFTEN
62
More reliable : TRUER
64
He drew Joe Palooka : HAMFISHER
65
Czechoslovak measure : SAH
66
Donat role : CHIPS
67
"Bob, ___ Battle" : SONOF
68
Wood sorrel : OCA
69
Kotter's plotters : SWEATHOGS
72
Ulan ___ : BATOR
73
Baltic people : ESTHS
75
Practices endogamy : INBREEDS
76
Hoover or Cougar : DAM
77
Sci-fi guy : VERNE
79
Author of "Them" : OATES
80
Dormouse : LEROT
82
Enlargers : REAMERS
86
Inculpates : BLAMES
88
Type of ungula : TOENAIL
90
"We ___ amused" : ARENOT
91
Auricle : EAR
92
Fencing position : SECONDE
94
Hebrew letter : MEM
96
"King Olaf" composer : ELGAR
97
Small squall : GUST
99
Caroled : SANG
100
Little guys in sties : SHOTES
103
Wagnerian goddess : ERDA
104
Old Irish script : OGHAM
106
Ritzy : POSH
108
Awn : ARISTA
110
Vedic sky serpent : AHI
111
Cuban battle site: 1961 : THEBAYOFPIGS
114
Bring home ___ : THEBACON
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He created Bambi : SALTEN
117
Writer Leon : URIS
118
Delivery to a tavern : BEERKEG
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Raison ___ : DETRE
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Italian river : RENO
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Swirled : EDDIED
Down
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Large barrel : HOGSHEAD
2
Cries of pain : OWS
3
"___ silly question ... " : ASKA
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Curbs : REINS
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Soundness : SANITY
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French town on the Ill : ERSTEIN
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___ bull : PAPAL
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Type of trip : EGO
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Irrational number : SURD
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"___ your leader" : TAKEMETO
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Modern motto medium : TSHIRT
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Old car : REO
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Dadaist's display : ARPS
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Pitcher's dream game : NOHIT
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Controversial inoculation : SWINEFLUSHOT
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Library injunction : SILENCE
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Louisiana town : SLAGLE
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Dances in 2/4 time : POLKAS
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Bonnie's partner : CLYDE
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Actress Kirk et al. : LISAS
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Arrested : RANIN
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Orangutan : REDAPE
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Baby ___ : SITTER
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Compose rapidly : TEAROFF
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Femme fatale : SIREN
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Trouter's specialty : CAST
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Strad's relative : AMATI
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Afflict : AIL
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Companion star : COMES
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French grains : BLES
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Procedures : METHODS
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Knight's attendant : ARMORER
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Small eels : GRIGS
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Dancer Valery : PANOV
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Georgia or Carnegie : TECH
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Spanish Mmes. : SRAS
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Bone: Comb. form : OSSI
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Act the sycophant : FAWN
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Shakespearean tavern : THEBOARSHEAD
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Good times : UPS
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Recently stolen : HOT
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Gouda and feta : CHEESES
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Where R.L.S. is buried : SAMOA
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Syria, in the Bible : ARAM
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Nice noggins : TETES
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Critic Clive : BARNES
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Finnish lake : ENARE
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Mother of Dionysus : SEMELE
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Legal paper : DEED
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Cartoonist Gardner : REA
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Arctic bird : LONGSPUR
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Indonesian island : TIMOR
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Endued with elegance : ENGRACED
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Selfish driver : ROADHOG
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Exert : STRAIN
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Sired : BEGOT
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Chortles : LAUGHS
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Like a ___ bricks : TONOF
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Beatles hit: 1972 : LETITBE
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Scarface Al : CAPONE
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Reticulate : MESHED
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Postpone : TABLE
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Actress Signe : HASSO
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Pegasus, e.g. : STEED
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Dillon : MATT
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"This Gun for ___" : HIRE
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Hillside dugout : ABRI
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Ending with saw or law : YER
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The Cronyns' game : GIN
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Forever, in Sydney : AKE

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 17 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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