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Sara V. Tuckerman
Sara V. Tuckerman

New York Times, Friday, December 8, 1978

19-Down : ___ in the face (sharp rebuke)

Author:
Sara V. Tuckerman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F G H J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 256 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Sara V. Tuckerman has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,622
Across
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She wrote "With Shuddering Fall" : OATES
6
Hacienda room : SALA
10
Keep ___ (persevere) : ATIT
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Emergency currency : SCRIP
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Moslem prayer leader : IMAM
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Out of line : AWRY
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City in Tuscany : SIENA
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Having no equal : NONPAREIL
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Actress Rehan : ADA
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Roman historian : TACITUS
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Chemical suffix : ENE
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Consommé : SOUPE
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Namath, once : ALLSTAR
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Contestant at Henley : SCULLER
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___ tide : NEAP
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Heart-shaped : CORDATE
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Appearances : ASPECTS
36
Bauxite and siderite : ORES
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Thalia's sister : CLIO
38
Group employed by a vintner : TASTERS
42
"For men must ___ women must weep": Kingsley : WORKAND
45
Susa was its capital : ELAM
46
Diva's song : ARIETTA
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Mother ___, first U.S. citizen to be canonized : CABRINI
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African plain : VELDT
51
Upward: Prefix : ANA
52
Edith or Osbert : SITWELL
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Finial : EPI
57
Nonconformist : DISSENTER
59
Auriculate : EARED
61
Kazan : ELIA
62
River duck : TEAL
63
Relative of 'twas : TWERE
64
Big top : TENT
65
"___ a Rose," 1925 song : ONLY
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Stonecrop : SEDUM
Down
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Peak in Thessaly : OSSA
2
Tart : ACID
3
Holds dear : TREASURES
4
German article : EIN
5
Kitchen implement : SPATULA
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Wholehearted : SINCERE
7
Mine, in Marseilles : AMOI
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Red sage : LANTANA
9
Sealed vials for hypodermics : AMPULES
10
Bern's river : AAR
11
Aviary sound : TWEET
12
Role in Chekhov's "The Seagull" : IRINA
13
Tenth U.S. President : TYLER
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___ in the face (sharp rebuke) : ASLAP
22
Egyptian maternity goddess : APET
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Graybeard : OLDSTER
27
Spotted : SPECKED
28
Man from Dundee : SCOT
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Uncas's love : CORA
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Rattled : CLATTERED
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Color : TINT
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Kind of pop or cracker : SODA
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"Für ___," Beethoven piece : ELISE
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Encountered : RANINTO
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Captivated : SMITTEN
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City in NE Iowa : WAVERLY
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U.S.S.R. livestock market : OREL
44
Small streams : RILLETS
47
U.S.M.A. man : CADET
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Doddering : ANILE
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Landlocked harbor : BASIN
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Stripe made by a whip : WEAL
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Cuzco's country : PERU
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The same: Lat. : IDEM
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Rested : SAT
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Reverence : AWE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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