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Young
Young

New York Times, Thursday, March 29, 1984

9-Down : Scabbard makers

Author:
Young
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.25, Missing: { Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Young has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,560
Across
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Town NE of Paris : LAON
5
Cures : HEALS
10
___ of tears : VALE
14
Pisa's river : ARNO
15
Islamic God : ALLAH
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Rainbow : IRIS
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Old ___ Village, Mass. : STURBRIDGE
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Refuge : NEST
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Company's procedures expert : SYSTEMSANALYST
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Owns : HAS
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Citizen of Genoa: Abbr. : ITAL
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Fiery particle : SPARK
27
Former rulers of Iran : SHAHS
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What ff. means : FOL
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River out of Pittsburgh : OHIO
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Ear bone : STAPES
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Muhammad ___ : ALI
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Coded instructions for a modern machine : COMPUTERPROGRAM
38
Like: Suffix : INE
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These fall in the fall : LEAVES
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Passage : LANE
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Above, to M. Arnold : OER
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Subdues : TAMES
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Pop : DADDY
44
Poilu's weapon : ARME
45
Nourished : FED
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Electronic machines : DATAPROCESSORS
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Lawful : JUST
54
Absurd : IRRATIONAL
55
Think-tank creation : IDEA
56
Boys of old Rome : PUERI
57
Bird that talks : MYNA
58
Support : BEAR
59
Urged, with "on" : EGGED
60
Way out : EXIT
Down
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Girl : LASS
2
Like some mannerisms : ARTY
3
Responsibility : ONUS
4
Co-Nobelist in Chemistry: 1946 : NORTHROP
5
Damages : HARMS
6
Site of ancient Olympic games : ELIS
7
Director of "The Four Seasons": 1981 : ALDA
8
Gratuities : LAGNIAPPES
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Scabbard makers : SHEATHERS
10
Kind of plastic : VINYL
11
Atalanta's beloved : ARES
12
Tilt : LIST
13
Superlative ending : EST
18
Bill : BEAK
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Rope : LASSO
24
Kind of drama : SOCIO
25
"E.T. ___ home" : PHONE
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To love, in Toulouse : AIMER
27
Cover on a cruise : STEAMERRUG
28
Nickname for Elwood P. Dowd's rabbit : HARVE
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Electrical unit : FARAD
30
Swedish island : OLAND
31
British tar : LIMEY
33
Boiler attachment : STEAMPIPE
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Extreme : ULTRA
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Joyful : GLADSOME
43
Indian jute : DESI
44
Perfume from roses : ATTAR
45
Smelly : FETID
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Certain Easterner in the West : DUDE
47
On the Marmora : ASEA
48
Neighbor of Wash. : OREG
49
Part of t.l.c. : CARE
50
Cameo stone : ONYX
51
Gypsy's wife : RANI
52
Blind part : SLAT
53
Triangular sail : JIB

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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