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Michael J. Parris
Michael J. Parris

TIME AFTER TIME

New York Times, Sunday, November 5, 1989

60-Down : Be miserly

Author:
Michael J. Parris
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 66, Avg Word Len: 5.43, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 596 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 135, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 13, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
Michael J. Parris has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,607
Across
1
Reeking : OLID
5
Surly : GRUFF
10
Cote sound : COO
13
Abominated : HATED
18
___ Nostra : COSA
19
A hundred paise : RUPEE
20
___ food : SOUL
21
Sadat : ANWAR
22
Charlemagne (800)-Francis II (1806) : HOLYROMANEMPIRE
25
Lovelace's forte : POESY
26
Stages in lives of organisms : STADIUMS
27
Legal claims : LIENS
28
Parts of books : SPINES
29
Viscid : ROPY
30
Eucharist containers: Var. : PIXES
31
Faint appearance : GLINT
32
Early French monarchs : CAPETS
35
Ate elegantly : DINED
36
Loyalties : FEALTIES
39
Wahines' dances : HULAS
40
T'ai Tsu (1368)-Chuang-lieh-ti (1644) : MINGDYNASTY
42
Wawaskeesh : ELK
43
Agenda unit : ITEM
44
His name means "I am faithful" : FIDO
45
Grafted: Her. : ENTE
46
Norman town : STLO
47
Miss Piggy's pronoun : MOI
48
Paleolithic period : OLDSTONEAGE
52
Brazilian state : BAHIA
53
Lamb or Bacon : ESSAYIST
55
Staggers : REELS
56
Neutralize : CANCEL
57
Chirp : TWEET
58
Runs away : FLEES
59
"___ d'Arthur": Tennyson : MORTE
60
Animal tracks : SPOORS
62
Eat away : ERODE
63
Changes sugar to alcohol : FERMENTS
66
Gripes : KICKS
67
February 29 : LEAPYEARDAY
69
Gumshoe : TEC
70
Arrow poison : INEE
71
Tale : YARN
72
Tenor Shicoff : NEIL
73
Whine : PULE
74
Eliot's "The Hollow ___" : MEN
75
When dinosaurs roamed the earth : MESOZOICERA
79
Firth of Clyde island : ARRAN
80
Supposes : PRESUMES
82
Fatuous : INANE
83
Made raids for booty : PREYED
84
"The Pumpkin ___," 1964 film : EATER
85
Coquette : FLIRT
86
Samoyeds and schipperkes : DOGS
87
___ Zee Bridge, N.Y. : TAPPAN
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City on the Meuse : LIEGE
90
Located : SITUATED
94
Not give ___ (be unconcerned) : AHOOT
95
A.H. 1 or A.D. 622 : YEAROFTHEHEGIRA
97
Mother-of-pearl : NACRE
98
Pangolin's feast : ANTS
99
Like a Cheviot : OVINE
100
Innisfail : ERIN
101
Oleaceous trees : ASHES
102
What, in Weimar : WAS
103
Delirious one : RAVER
104
Knock down in the ring : DECK
Down
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Noted newspaper publisher : OCHS
2
Terhune novel : LOOT
3
Cuba, e.g. : ISLA
4
Reverie : DAYDREAM
5
Assemblages : GROUPS
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Card game : RUMMY
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Asian evergreen : UPAS
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Bog : FEN
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Sensitivity : FEELING
10
Numismatist's concern : COINS
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Possessive pronoun : OURS
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Violinist Bull : OLE
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With pleasure : HAPPILY
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Consecrate by unction : ANOINT
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Today, in a way : TWENTIETHCENTURY
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Tranquillity : EASE
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Prohibitionists : DRYS
20
Like Gonzales of songdom : SPEEDY
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Very funny fellows : RIOTS
24
Kind of doubles : MIXED
28
Shade of gray : SLATE
30
Grape variety : PINOT
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"Beau ___," Wren work : GESTE
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Edge of a cask : CHIME
33
Auburn and Marmon : AUTOS
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"When thou ___ terrible things": Isa. 64:3 : DIDST
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Adder's armament : FANGS
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"___ Rhee," Civil War song : ELLIE
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Kin of 46 Down : SKOAL
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Center : MIDST
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Patricia and Tom of films : NEALS
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What time does : FLIES
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A votre ___! (Cheers!) : SANTE
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Court hearings : OYERS
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Ship's lowest deck : ORLOP
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Indigent : NEEDY
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Size for Bigfoot or Yeti? : EEEEE
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Full of froth : BARMY
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Left Nod : AWOKE
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Staghorn : CORAL
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Lehár or Schubert : FRANZ
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Radio and TV : MEDIA
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Be miserly : SKIMP
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Anguished one : PINER
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Saarinen's namesakes : EEROS
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Jacques's title in song : FRERE
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Anatomical tissues : TELAE
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Rise on a wave : SCEND
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Device used in microsurgery : LASER
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Concerning : ANENT
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Red Sea republic : YEMEN
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Foretold : PRESAGED
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Changes genetically : MUTATES
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Houston eleven : OILERS
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Architect Jones : INIGO
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Like : CAREFOR
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Debate : ARGUE
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Flavor, in Ferrara : SAPORE
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Bustle; confusion : POTHER
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Edicts : FIATS
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Chemical compound : DIENE
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Lake ___, source of the Blue Nile : TANA
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Cries of discovery : AHAS
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Irkutsk river : LENA
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Hood's blade : SHIV
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Flag : TIRE
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___ Blair (George Orwell) : ERIC
93
Moist and chilly : DANK
95
Deviate from course : YAW
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Pride of ex-Sen. Norris : TVA

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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