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Kenneth Witte
Kenneth Witte

New York Times, Wednesday, February 18, 1987

33-Down : Genuflect

Author:
Kenneth Witte
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has duplicate clues.
Kenneth Witte has 30 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,616
Across
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Sheds skin : MOLTS
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French secular clergyman : ABBE
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Bears' lairs : DENS
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Idolize : ADORE
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Bearing : MIEN
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Dies ___ : IRAE
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Presidential Chief of Staff : REGAN
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"Woe is me!" : ALAS
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Résumé : VITA
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Be decisive : CROSSTHERUBICON
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"How's that?" : HEH
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Palindromic document : DEED
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Doubtful : IFFY
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Séance sounds : RAPS
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"Three ___," Glyn novel : WEEKS
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Denver Nuggets' coach : MOE
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Pride of the Prado : GOYA
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Word with oil or split : BANANA
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Be decisive : BURNONESBRIDGES
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Like a teenager's bed? : UNMADE
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Plane or level : TOOL
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Brown of the Band of Renown : LES
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Emulates Robert Giroux : EDITS
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Educator Horace : MANN
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Wriggling : EELY
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Native state of Meredith Willson : IOWA
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Type of game or man : CON
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Be decisive : PUTONESFOOTDOWN
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Land in the news : IRAN
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What eagles do : SOAR
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Ringworm : TINEA
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Taj Mahal site : AGRA
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Leprechaun land : ERIN
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Tinker's target : EVERS
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What gropers do : FEEL
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Respiratory sound : RALE
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Calibrate anew : RESET
Down
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Grapes' residue : MARC
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Baltic feeder : ODER
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Trademark : LOGO
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Worthless : TRASHY
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Kinesthesia, for one : SENSE
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Oriental nurse : AMAH
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Choler : BILE
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Vandykes : BEARDS
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Come afterward : ENSUE
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Stockholder's bonus : DIVIDEND
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Greenland discoverer : ERIC
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Defense org. formed in 1949 : NATO
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Actor Connery : SEAN
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King's support : THRONE
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Lament : BEWAIL
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Permeate : IMBUE
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Half of a store department : FOUND
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Physicist Enrico : FERMI
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Parliamentary response : AYE
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Vermicelli, e.g. : PASTA
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Birdie's better : EAGLE
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Genuflect : KNEEL
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Like minxes : SASSY
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Future Don Corleone? : GODSON
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John Elway, for one : BRONCO
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Kind of park : NATIONAL
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___ mot : BON
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Hebrew Old Testament notes : MASORA
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Salad ingredient : ENDIVE
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River found in "sewer" : WESER
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Aquatic animal : OTTER
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French chanteuse : PIAF
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Advance an argument : URGE
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Biblical weed : TARE
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Be lacking : FAIL
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River in NW France : ORNE
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Wallet fillers : ONES
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"___ No Angels," Bogart comedy : WERE
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Tammany Hall detractor : NAST

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