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Jeanette K. Brill
Jeanette K. Brill

New York Times, Wednesday, December 30, 1987

11-Down : Earnings from a sale

Author:
Jeanette K. Brill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { B J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jeanette K. Brill has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,931
Across
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Medicinal plant : ALOE
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Psychic inits. : ESP
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Ye olde gift ___ : SHOPPE
14
Self-reproachful one : REPENTER
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Roma, to Cato : PATRIA
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Beguile : ENTRANCE
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Rubinstein and Bruckner : ANTONS
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"___ was going to St. Ives" : ASI
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Hesitating : PAUSING
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A Ron in baseball : CEY
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Region in Spain : LEON
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Luges : SLEDS
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Encountered : MET
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Fit of pique : SNIT
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Black bird : ANI
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Baltic island : AERO
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Map : CHART
34
Inclined : TENDED
36
Rankle : FESTER
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Certain decrees : UKASES
40
Bivouac : ENCAMP
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Lab tube : PIPET
43
Condition, in Cannes : ETAT
44
Grampus : ORC
45
Art ___ : DECO
48
Dudgeon : IRE
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A Yugoslav : CROAT
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Apiece : EACH
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Where Lts. are made : OTC
54
Cowpoke's companion : PARDNER
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Name meaning "high" : ELI
57
Baseball pitch : SLIDER
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Irrationality : UNREASON
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Other: Comb. form : HETERO
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Shrink : CONTRACT
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Refuge : ASYLUM
64
French connections : ETS
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Broadhorns : ARKS
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Of a region : AREAL
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Parts of eyes : LENSES
3
Choice : OPTION
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Poetic contraction : EER
5
Lab heaters : ETNAS
6
Laic : SECULAR
7
Gift : PRESENT
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Durations : SPANS
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Suspend : HANG
10
Famous Giant : OTT
11
Earnings from a sale : PROCEEDS
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Me. symbol : PINETREE
13
This does it : EASY
15
Downy surface : NAP
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March 15, in Italy : IDI
24
Wink : NICTATE
26
Sirenian seen off Fla. : MANATEE
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Oates book : THEM
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G.I. uniforms : ODS
33
French sculptor-painter: 1887-1966 : ARP
34
Ram : TUP
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Made do, with "out" : EKED
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Charge : FEE
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Names : ENTITLES
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Dearth : SCARCITY
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Yield : PRODUCE
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"___ tell a lie" : ICANNOT
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Hockey great : ORR
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Comedian from Yonkers : CAESAR
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"A ten ___ scholar" : OCLOCK
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Billiard shot : CAROM
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Medricks : TERNS
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Intimates : HINTS
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Govt. safety agcy. : OSHA
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Ill. city : PERU
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Soak flax : RET
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Actress Dolores ___ Rio : DEL
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A neighbor of Scorpio : ARA

Answer summary:
3 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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