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Jack L. Steinhardt
Jack L. Steinhardt

New York Times, Saturday, December 1, 1984

40-Down : Alehouses

Author:
Jack L. Steinhardt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F J K Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 88, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has supersymmetry.
Jack L. Steinhardt has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,807
Across
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Jean Baptiste Poquelin : MOLIERE
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Type of windlass : CAPSTAN
15
Hit Broadway show: 1981 : AMADEUS
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Semitic goddess of fertility : ASTARTE
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Young hare : LEVERET
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Ocean channel : SEAGATE
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Woeful word : ALAS
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Villa for Chernenko : DACHA
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Voiceless sound : SURD
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Part of a div. : REG
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Laotian neighbor : TAI
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Wire measure : MIL
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Object : ITEM
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Artificial conduit : SEWER
30
___ à chou : PATE
31
States : ASSERTS
33
Altered : REVISED
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Louis XVI, e.g. : ROI
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Repository : BIN
37
Abutting : TANGENT
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Signaling devices : BUZZERS
45
Part of HOMES : ERIE
46
Pile of rock debris : TALUS
48
Nautical term : ALEE
49
Negative conjunction : NOR
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Its capital is Draguignan : VAR
51
Right-angled plumbing joint : ELL
52
Capital of Fiji : SUVA
54
Radio, TV, etc. : MEDIA
56
Football or track : OVAL
57
Bellerophon's son killed by Ares : ISANDER
59
Vitalize : ANIMATE
61
Old North Church signal : LANTERN
62
Electrical restricting device : LIMITER
63
Two Arthurian lasses : ELAINES
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Certain roofers : SLATERS
Down
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Tropical affliction : MALARIA
2
Western and Spanish : OMELETS
3
Medical washings : LAVAGES
4
Dec. 13, e.g. : IDES
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Suffix for musket or profit : EER
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Did penance : RUED
7
Demesnes : ESTATES
8
Dismiss with disgrace : CASHIER
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On the deep : ASEA
10
Sch. group : PTA
11
Yields to weakness : SAGS
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Shocks : TRAUMAS
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Diminish by harassment : ATTRITE
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Ragged : NEEDLED
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Corvine cry : CAW
27
Amalgamate : MERGE
28
Task : STINT
29
Type of puzzle : REBUS
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Noted late basso : PINZA
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Brooklyn's Preacher : ROE
34
That is to say: Abbr. : VIZ
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Like bridge cables : TENSILE
38
Excitation : AROUSAL
39
Buddhist state of blessedness : NIRVANA
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Alehouses : TAVERNS
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Sepultures : BURIALS
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Ennoble : ELEVATE
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Storyteller : RELATER
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Type of market : SELLERS
47
Nipper : LAD
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Not pro : ANTI
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Scantily sufficient : MERE
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Deep blue : ANIL
56
Neglect : OMIT
58
Cave, at times : DEN
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Miss Hogg : IMA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 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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