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Yurie Horiguchi
Yurie Horiguchi

New York Times, Saturday, November 9, 1985

22-Down : Oxidative

Author:
Yurie Horiguchi
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { F J K Q U W X Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Yurie Horiguchi has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,150
Across
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Not very enthusiastic : TEPID
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Funeral ode : EPICEDE
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Lobster's coral : REDROE
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Producer of ennui : MONOTONY
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Cities in Ill. and Scotland : ELGINS
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Gothic finial : PINNACLE
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Isn't perfectly perpendicular : LEANS
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Shooting match, in Sedan : TIR
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Flash of light : GLEAM
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Port of Israel : ACRE
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Hebrews' first high priest : AARON
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Suffix with infer : ENCE
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Word with room or root : TAP
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Describing Assyrians and Phoenicians : SEMITIC
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Hamilton's pet number? : TEN
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Limited to a small circle : ESOTERIC
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When M. Aurelius was 30 : CLI
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Sound systems : STEREOS
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Gravelly-voiced film actor : STANDER
38
Plenipotentiary: Abbr. : AMB
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Typical Turner masterpiece : SEASCAPE
40
Gun a motor : REV
43
Valentino vehicles : SILENTS
45
Unruly mass of hair : MOP
46
He portrayed Big Daddy : IVES
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"To ___ upon the midnight ... ": Keats : CEASE
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Shoshonean : HOPI
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One of a famous trio : PINTA
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Enzyme suffix : ASE
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Silkworm's habitat: Fr. : COCON
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Legendary S.A. land : ELDORADO
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Irish port : TRALEE
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Caught a marlin : REELEDIN
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Attendant on Poseidon : NEREID
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What Miniver Cheevy had : REASONS
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"Gondoliers" lass : TESSA
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Modern media program : TELECAST
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Boy taken in by John Allan : EDGARPOE
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Actor in "The Miracle Worker" : PRINE
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Cyclotron items : IONS
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"La Valse ___ Toréadors": Anouilh : DES
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Relier on experience : EMPIRIC
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Belgian fictional sleuth : POIROT
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Gray's ___, London : INN
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D.C. body : CONG
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Mer ___: Fr. doldrums : ETALE
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Teaching : DOCENT
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Twine : ENLACE
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Connects : RELATES
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Its capital is Sana : YEMEN
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Sieve made of cloth : TAMIS
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Oxidative : AEROBIC
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Wink : NICTATE
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Appears : SEEMS
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Segal's "The ___" : CLASS
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La-la preceder : TRA
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"Airways, ___": Dos Passos : INC
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What ravers don't make : SENSE
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His sword was feared : DAMOCLES
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Epic poem : EPOPOEIA
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Complained : REPINED
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"The Four ___": Vivaldi : SEASONS
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Not so green : RIPER
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More wicked : EVILER
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Buyer : VENDEE
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Introduction : LEADIN
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Garb for Atia : STOLA
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White coatings : HOARS
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God once imprisoned in a jar : ARES
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Canadian Indian : CREE
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___ Annie, in "Oklahoma!" : ADO
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Ammo material : TNT

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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