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Hallie Parsons
Hallie Parsons
Gerald Parsons
Gerald Parsons

New York Times, Saturday, December 3, 1977

4-Down : Improves spiritually

Author:
Hallie & Gerald Parsons
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { G J K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,339
Across
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Emmy's cousin : OBIE
5
Cape's locale : COAST
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Arrive : COME
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Gudok, e.g. : VIOL
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Lunar feature : RILLE
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Son of Ruth and Boaz : OBED
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Prewar : ANTEBELLUM
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Companion of the radius : ULNA
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"So I turn the ___ of Fancy": Riley : LEAVES
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Marketplace : EMPORIUM
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Stake : ANTE
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Shrine Bowl team : EAST
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Illegal pitch : SPITTER
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Thinks highly of : ESTEEMS
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Lacking zest : TAME
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Checks : DRAFTS
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Jerboa's relative : RAT
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Ophidians : ASPS
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Sore mouth: Brit : ORF
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Raspberry stem : CANE
39
Japanese statesman : ITO
40
Less lenient : FIRMER
43
Perched on : ATOP
44
Picaresque fellows : RASCALS
46
Wavers on the brink : TEETERS
48
Canvas : SAIL
49
What aquafortists do : ETCH
50
Supports for Shoemaker : STIRRUPS
54
Kitchen emanations : AROMAS
58
Mixer's frozen asset : CUBE
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Doctor : MANIPULATE
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Palindrome starter : ABLE
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Decay by degrees : ERODE
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Bear or Mare : ISLE
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Numerical suffix : TEEN
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___ up (in the bag) : SEWED
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Chastity's mother : CHER
Down
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Place for a race : OVAL
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Tendril : BINE
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Smidgen : IOTA
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Improves spiritually : ELEVATES
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Reached a peak : CRESTED
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Midnight fuel : OIL
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Herr's "All gone!" : ALLE
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Warren : SLUM
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"The ___," Shakespeare's last complete play : TEMPEST
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Route : COURSE
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Expunge : OBLITERATE
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Maître d'hôtel's concern : MENU
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Cheese in a red wrapping : EDAM
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Inclination : BENT
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Stable staple : OATS
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Scoreboard recording : ERRORS
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Word with case or well : STAIR
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Ravioli or macaroni : PASTA
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"It's ___," Perry Como hit : IMPOSSIBLE
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Unfruitful : EFFETE
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House and land of a lord : MANOR
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Rome's Spanish ___ : STEPS
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Kind of chair or rest : ARM
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Universal in extent : CATHOLIC
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Comely : FAIR
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Lights up : ILLUMES
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Made a new recording : RETAPED
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Lurch : CAREEN
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Light tan : ECRU
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Begone! : SCAT
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Snorkel : TUBE
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"Father of French Surgery" : PARE
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"Strangers and Brothers" author : SNOW
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Hit film in 1970 : MASH
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Salt tree : ATLE
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Melampus was the first one : SEER
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Fish or suffix : IDE

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