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Virginia Butler
Virginia Butler

New York Times, Wednesday, March 24, 1976

49-Down : African secret society

Author:
Virginia Butler
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { B J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 296 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Virginia Butler has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,720
Across
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___ button : PANIC
6
Design : PLAN
10
___ up (be silent) : CLAM
14
Hersey town : ADANO
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Isolated : LONE
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Function : ROLE
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Plunder : RAVEN
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Goes before : ANTECEDES
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Bedding materials : SHEETINGS
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Threepenny or horse : OPERA
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Scrutinizes : EYES
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Flower clusters : AMENTS
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Orderly universe : COSMOS
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Robustness : VIM
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Dupes : CHUMPS
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Feign : SIMULATE
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Ted Key's maid : HAZEL
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Poetic word : OPE
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Mother-of-pearl : NACRE
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Traveling freeloader : STOWAWAY
40
Nevertheless : WITHAL
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Road material : TAR
42
Aspects : FACETS
43
Collapse : CAVEIN
47
Silkworm : ERIA
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Famous fort : ALAMO
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Nonstop talkers : PRATTLERS
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Issue distorted facts : MISINFORM
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Type of column : IONIC
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By any chance : EVER
58
Clothes or Christmas : TREE
59
"___ the West Wind" : ODETO
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Without: Suffix : LESS
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Fish : CODS
62
Jewish month : NISAN
Down
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Norms : PARS
2
Wife of Esau : ADAH
3
Hub : NAVE
4
Arrow poison : INEE
5
Thinker's forte : CONTEMPLATION
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Fokkers and Spads : PLANES
7
Huey and Russell : LONGS
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Emmets : ANTS
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Formerly called : NEE
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Paper or suzette : CREPE
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Woolen cloth : LODEN
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Perceptive : ALERT
13
Tablelands : MESAS
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Togetherness word : COMMUNICATION
21
P.I. vines : IYOS
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Use a gunsight : AIM
25
Small bird : CHAT
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Liqueur from Greece : OUZO
27
Waterfowl : SMEW
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Contend : VIE
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Book parts: Abbr. : CHS
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Kind of glass : SPY
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Kind of show or Latin : LATE
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Eight, in Mainz : ACHT
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Pewter coins : TRAS
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Slippery one : EEL
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Put one's ___ in : OAR
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Languid : WAN
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Pedestrian-sign word : WAIT
42
Bowling rounds : FRAMES
43
Bactrian : CAMEL
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Aware : ALIVE
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Florists' offerings : VASES
46
Asian rulers : EMIRS
47
Goofed : ERRED
49
African secret society : PORO
50
Calif. city : LODI
51
Chemical endings : ENES
52
Miss Moreno : RITA
53
Tea cake: Var. : SCON
55
U.S. agency : FTC

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 7 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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