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Brett A. Blaylock
Brett A. Blaylock

New York Times, Saturday, March 31, 1984

8-Down : Golden or Gilded follower

Author:
Brett A. Blaylock
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { K Q V Y }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Brett A. Blaylock has 8 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,562
Across
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Where Zeno taught : STOA
5
City in Lombardy : MILAN
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Wife, to Cicero : UXOR
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All: Comb. form : PANT
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Wazhazhe tribe : OSAGE
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Anagram for rode : REDO
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Geometer from Syracuse : ARCHIMEDES
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Freshly : ANEW
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A.F.C. team : STEELERS
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Transcripts : TENORS
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River in England : NENE
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Befuddle : MIXUP
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Brute : SADIST
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Wraps up : FINISHES
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On the Red : ASEA
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" ... ___ and arrows ... " : SLINGS
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Master : ACE
35
Paints : LIMNS
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Follower of broad or pole : AXE
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Mortise adjacency : TENON
40
Tokugawa shogunate's capital : EDO
41
Roundup aides : HAZERS
44
Declare, in pinochle : MELD
45
Celebrated dialectician : SOCRATES
47
Approaches, with "in" : CLOSES
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Lets : RENTS
50
Well disciplined : TAUT
51
Couple : JOINER
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Most maudlin : CORNIEST
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Spanish demonstrative : ESTA
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Early atomic theorist : ANAXAGORAS
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Styptic : ALUM
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A sea was named for him : CARIB
62
Historic caravel : NINA
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Pry : NOSE
64
Salad days : TEENS
65
Haruspex : SEER
Down
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Soda fountains in N.E. : SPAS
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Biting : TART
3
Head of a tale : ONCE
4
Plato was one : ATHENIAN
5
Twinklings : MOMENTS
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Grenoble's river : ISERE
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Lassies' partners : LADS
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Golden or Gilded follower : AGE
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Nidification : NESTING
10
Father of Cronus : URANUS
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Eleatic philosopher : XENOPHANES
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Czech-Polish river : ODER
13
Dust-ups : ROWS
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Corse and d'Yeu : ILES
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"From whom we do ___ ... ": Shak. : EXIST
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His discoveries may be major : MINER
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Turnover : SALES
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" ... I say, not ___" : ASIDO
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"The Laughing Philosopher" : DEMOCRITUS
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Sets : FIXES
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School, in Avignon : ECOLE
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Issues : SENDS
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Vegetates : LAZES
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Novel by Jack Schaefer : SHANE
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Heartstrings : EMOTIONS
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Draw : ATTRACT
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Egyptian talismans : SCARABS
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Change a title : RENAME
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Respirator : LUNG
50
Ricin or ptomaine : TOXIN
51
Genet or Gabin : JEAN
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King Harald III's creation : OSLO
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Charge : CARE
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A "long tail" : ERIE
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Logical : SANE
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Tolstoy's sovereign : TSAR
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"___ man can tether time or tide": Burns : NAE

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

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