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Troxell
Troxell

New York Times, Wednesday, December 26, 1984

9-Down : Describing the Venus de Milo?

Author:
Troxell
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Troxell has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,832
Across
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Part of B.P.O.E. : ORDER
6
Urge : PROD
10
Indeterminate number : SOME
14
Chateau-country river : LOIRE
15
Bolognese painter : RENI
16
Gens : CLAN
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Sunshine State marshland : EVERGLADES
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___-date (stylish) : UPTO
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Tennis unit : SET
21
First or foreign follower : AID
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Channels for joints : RABBETS
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___ vitriol : OILOF
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Humorist Gardner ___ : REA
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Tell al-___, Egyptian ruins : AMARNA
30
Mouse in the House? : LAMEDUCK
35
Gauchos' weapons : BOLAS
36
Tunnel : MOLE
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Of wrath: Lat. : IRAE
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Something to pump : IRON
39
Unit of capacitance : FARAD
40
Change : VARY
41
Magician Henning : DOUG
42
Viking god : ODIN
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Eeyore's creator : MILNE
44
Made beloved : ENDEARED
46
Ministers' homes : MANSES
47
Triangular sail : JIB
48
Little activity : APING
50
Thins : DILUTES
54
Together with : AND
55
Extinct ratite bird : MOA
58
Yours, in Pau : ATOI
59
Fauna at 17 Across : ALLIGATORS
62
Stupor: Comb. form : NARC
63
Drought reliever : RAIN
64
The Pentateuch : TORAH
65
Not aweather : ALEE
66
"Auld Lang ___" : SYNE
67
Poet Dickinson : EMILY
Down
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Bullring cries : OLES
2
Wander : ROVE
3
___ of Worms: 1521 : DIET
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To do this is human : ERR
5
Gets back : REGAINS
6
Madrid museo : PRADO
7
A Christmas hue : RED
8
Something unique : ONER
9
Describing the Venus de Milo? : DISARMED
10
Sunshine State sport : SCUBADIVING
11
Oenochoe's cousin : OLPE
12
TV's Dillon : MATT
13
A son of Seth : ENOS
18
Actress Kedrova : LILA
23
Quilting ___ : BEE
24
Quencher from the Sunshine State : ORANGEJUICE
25
Subject of this puzzle : FLORIDA
27
"___ With Me" : ABIDE
28
Suburb of Buenos Aires : MORON
29
Audibly : ALOUD
31
Astronaut Bean : ALAN
32
Russian range : URALS
33
Chile con ___ : CARNE
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British admiral, W.W. II commando chief : KEYES
36
Fabricated : MADE
39
Refrains : FORBEARS
43
Court command : MANDATE
45
Small island : AIT
46
Chinese dynasty : MING
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Author of "Common Sense" : PAINE
50
He wrote "Two Years Before the Mast" : DANA
51
Type of type: Abbr. : ITAL
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Erudition : LORE
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Lay low : SLAY
55
Spark's "Memento ___" : MORI
56
Preacher Roberts : ORAL
57
Pale : ASHY
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Author Yutang : LIN
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The piper's son : TOM

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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