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Alfio Micci
Alfio Micci

New York Times, Thursday, March 4, 1993

40-Down : Destroy

Author:
Alfio Micci
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Alfio Micci has 91 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 11 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,822
Across
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Foolishly enthusiastic : GAGA
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Presidential surname : ADAMS
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Health resorts : SPAS
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A companion of Aeneas : ABAS
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Radio, TV, etc. : MEDIA
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___ Alto, Calif. : PALO
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Vanishing obstruction in 1989 : BERLINWALL
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Algerian port : ORAN
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Part of H.S.H. : SERENE
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Looters' activity : TAKING
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Otherwise : ELSE
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Monica of tennis : SELES
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Rock-clinging marine gastropods : LIMPETS
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Valencia and bergamot : ORANGES
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"___ Lay Dying": Faulkner : ASI
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Magnates : TYCOONS
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Snitch : RAT
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"Rose ___ rose...": Stein : ISA
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Barley beard : AWN
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Period of note : ERA
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Daiquiri base : RUM
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Satiated : REPLETE
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Yalie : ELI
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Usurper's action : SEIZURE
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Repaired the car brakes : RELINED
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Ecru's kin : BEIGE
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Actress Thompson : SADA
51
Hot Mediterranean wind : SOLANO
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Derelict : REMISS
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Draw : HAUL
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Scofflaw's nightmare : DENVERBOOT
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Mountain: Comb. form : OREO
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More frigid : ICIER
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"To Live and Die ___," 1985 film : INLA
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Attention-getting sound : PSST
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Groups of devotees : CULTS
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Capital of Calvados : CAEN
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Shoots the breeze : GABS
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Have ___ in one's bonnet : ABEE
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Teri of "Miracles" : GARR
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In dreamland : ASLEEP
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General pardon : AMNESTY
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"...the foggy, foggy ___" : DEW
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City in Okla. : ADA
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Legendary father of Irish kings : MIL
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NaCl works : SALTERN
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Oral : SPOKEN
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An insecticide : PARISGREEN
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Lyrist ___ Jay Lerner : ALAN
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Loewe creation : SONG
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Passage to a culvert : INLET
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Lackaday! : ALAS
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One that got away : ESCAPEE
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Citizens of Pauls Valley : SOONERS
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Beds for Leo and Elsa : LAIRS
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Publish : ISSUE
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Baldwin-Ward film: 1990 : MIAMIBLUES
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U.S. inventor Pliny ___ : EARLE
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Serious : STAID
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Hooter : OWL
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Destroy : RUIN
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Statistically expected : ERGODIC
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Blustering people : TEARERS
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Church official : ELDER
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Fanatic : ZEALOT
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___ pentameter : IAMBIC
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Emporium : SHOP
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Randan implements : OARS
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Island in the Hebrides : IONA
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Food fish : SOLE
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Saxophonist Getz : STAN
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Old coin of France : ECU
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Naught : NIL
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Examine carefully : VET

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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