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Tom Underhill
Tom Underhill

New York Times, Wednesday, February 4, 1987

30-Down : Actress June from Rock Island

Author:
Tom W. Underhill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J K Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Tom Underhill has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
Tom W. Underhill is an alias for Tom Underhill.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,602
Across
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Bad Ems and Evian : SPAS
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___ it (on the carpet) : INFOR
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Skillful : ABLE
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Fastener : HASP
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Snow, to Pierre : NEIGE
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Ship's prison : BRIG
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Can. province : ALTA
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Siegfried's slayer : HAGEN
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Custor's last major : RENO
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Start of a rhyme by E. C. Bentley : GEORGETHETHIRD
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Sun. lecture : SER
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Peter and Nicholas : TSARS
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Offenbach heroine and namesakes : HELENES
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" ... ___ now speak ... " : LETHIM
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Three ___ match : ONA
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Bars at the bar : ESTOPS
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Byron poem : LARA
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Rhyme: Part II : OUGHT
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Celtic sea god : LER
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Rhyme: Part III : NEVER
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Spanish linen fabric : CREA
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Knobbed : TOROSE
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Suffix with differ : ENT
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Ike's second Sec. of State : HERTER
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Music of the ___ : SPHERES
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Kind of knife or lock : CLASP
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Prince Valiant's son : ARN
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End of rhyme : TOHAVEOCCURRED
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Halt : LAME
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Caesar or Cato, once : EDILE
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Bern's river : AARE
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Foster a felon : ABET
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Light-amplification device : LASER
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Companion of int. : PRIN
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Bits of wit : PUNS
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Dirks of yore : SNEES
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Dry run : TEST
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Catch a fly : SHAG
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Enclosure : PALE
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Anent : ASTO
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Scant : SPARSE
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Belongs : INHERES
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Far from slovenly : NEAT
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Bout : FIGHT
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Curved moldings : OGEES
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Certain cars or cottages : RENTALS
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Like some porcupines : ABRISTLE
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___ Rabbit or Fox : BRER
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Swedish soprano : LIND
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Psychiatrist's concern : EGO
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Citizen ___ (French diplomat) : GENET
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Otho's dom. : HRE
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Moonshine : HOOCH
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Habituate : ENURE
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Light beer : LAGER
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Norman town of W.W. II : STLO
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Actress June from Rock Island : HAVER
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A Forsyte : IRENE
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Emporiums : MARTS
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Atop, to Keats : OER
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Lakers or Lions : PROS
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Tomahawks : HATCHETS
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Indian Prime Minister: 1947-64 : NEHRU
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Emulates Gulliver : TRAVELS
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Typewriter parts : SPACERS
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Guido's high note : ELA
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Bewitched : ENRAPT
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Prussian victory site: 1870 : SEDAN
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Diplomat's asset : POISE
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Freud's "Totem und ___" : TABU
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Harbinger : OMEN
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England's ___ Hills : CLEE
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Like Ben Jonson : RARE
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Goddess of discord : ERIS
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Reed wire : DENT
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Race unit : LAP

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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