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Hosler
Hosler

New York Times, Saturday, March 24, 1984

12-Down : On the up and up

Author:
Hosler
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 256 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0
Hosler has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,555
Across
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Brazilian dance : SAMBA
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An arm of H.U.D. : FHA
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Titubate : REEL
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"___ of One's Own": Woolf : AROOM
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Down Under leapers : ROOS
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Part of a roof : EAVE
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Eos's time : SUNUP
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It was, to Nero : ERAT
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Cliff : CRAG
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Complication : SNARL
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Defender of Rome: 1849 : GARIBALDI
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One of the Fords : GERALD
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Sports shocker : UPSET
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Foundation : BASE
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"My Sister ___" : EILEEN
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Footstool : OTTOMAN
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Noted U.S. seismologist : RICHTER
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Depended : RELIED
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Hypothesis : THEORY
39
Knowing : GNOSTIC
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"___ Tattoo," T. Williams play : THEROSE
42
Rootlessness : ANOMIE
44
Bull and Rolvaag : OLES
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Stand for de Kooning : EASEL
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Poet Aiken : CONRAD
51
Traveling bag : GLADSTONE
53
Sociologist's concern : MORES
57
Frost : RIME
58
Composer-singer from Ottawa : ANKA
59
Ring-shaped reef : ATOLL
60
Black : EBON
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Litigant : SUER
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Home of the "Golden Hurricane" : TULSA
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Sobrinos' kin : TIAS
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Hampshire's home : STY
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Holm : ISLET
Down
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Lip : SASS
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___ for one's money : ARUN
3
Actress Maris : MONA
4
Middle-class : BOURGEOIS
5
Plentiful : AMPLE
6
"___ We Know," 1934 song : FORALL
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Magpie or pack rat : HOARDER
8
Italian commune : ASTI
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A summing up : RECAP
10
Hyde and Grey : EARLS
11
Circumvent : EVADE
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On the up and up : LEGIT
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Get back : REGAIN
21
Nobel Peace Prize winner: 1950 : BUNCHE
23
Companion of writin' and 'rithmetic : READIN
25
Five-time Wimbledon champ : BORG
26
Egyptian symbol : ATEN
27
Manche's capital : STLO
29
One or the other : EITHER
31
Basic materials : METALS
33
"Father of History" : HERODOTUS
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Dupe : TOOL
35
Old tongue : ERSE
36
Gypsy gentlemen : RYES
40
One source of milk : COCONUT
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Chorus rejectee's problem : TINEAR
43
Dance of the 60's : MONKEY
45
Shore bird : EGRET
46
Excuse of a sort : ALIBI
47
Group north of Tonga : SAMOA
48
Sir Anthony and family : EDENS
50
Instrument for Perlman : AMATI
52
Soviet wire service : TASS
54
Ship's motion : ROLL
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Gilbert's Lord High Everything ___ : ELSE
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Lath : SLAT

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