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Ann Jenkins
Ann Jenkins

New York Times, Monday, April 10, 1978

4-Down : Small atolls

Author:
Ann Jenkins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Ann Jenkins has 23 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,467
Across
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Watering place : OASIS
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Boom's opposite : BUST
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Cry of contempt : POOF
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Like newly brewed coffee : FRESH
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Range : AREA
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Neagle of old films : ANNA
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Meet and join : FALLINWITH
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Sortie : RAID
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Chemical compound : ENOL
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Nuthatches' cousins : TITMICE
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Some Gallic noblemen : COMTES
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Protected; cared for : MOTHERED
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Contemporary of Isaiah and Hosea : AMOS
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Le Gallienne : EVA
30
Plural ending : IES
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Deserter : RAT
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Photocopies, for short : STATS
34
Ali ___, Turkish hero : PASHA
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Hepburn movie in 1968 : THELIONINWINTER
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Blasé : SATED
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Proboscis : SNOOT
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Guidonian note : ELA
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Phrase in French cookery : ALA
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Kind of tide : EBB
47
Middleweight champ: 1923-26 : GREB
48
Pass over, along or through : TRAVERSE
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Jugular fish found near rocky shores : BLENNY
54
Twilled fabric of European region : SILESIA
55
Jalousie item : SLAT
56
Earl of ___ (Eden) : AVON
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A Gershwin tune : SUMMERTIME
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Citizen of Aalborg : DANE
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Flaxen hue : ECRU
64
Jinn : GENIE
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"___ Three Lives": Philbrick : ILED
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Rookery feature : NEST
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Choir's accompaniment : ORGAN
Down
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In error : OFF
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Constellation : ARA
3
___ et poivre (Fr. seasonings) : SEL
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Small atolls : ISLETS
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Stand out : SHINE
6
Vociferate : BAWL
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Scene of the Tell legend : URI
8
Heated argument : SETTO
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Where Gauguin painted: 1891-93 : TAHITI
10
Hard, dry Italian cheese : PARMESAN
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Walking ___ (elated) : ONAIR
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Relative of "in the bag" : ONICE
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Washed out : FADED
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Cut off one's ___ ... : NOSETO
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Commodity exchange area : THEPIT
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Vendors' vehicles : CARTS
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City near Boys Town : OMAHA
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Sacred song : MOTET
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Setting for some idols : MATINEE
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Heflin and Johnson : VANS
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Edges up to : SIDLES
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Haughty person : SNOB
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Unrelenting : STERN
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Traubel : HELEN
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Sheik's domain in a 1921 song : ARABY
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Made barmy : LEAVENED
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Vacillate : WOBBLE
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Ascended : ARISEN
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Receiver : GETTER
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Hebrew letter : TSADI
49
Be a match for : RIVAL
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Isolated : ALONE
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Soubise, e.g. : SAUCE
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Key ___, Fla. : LARGO
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Obscene stuff : SMUT
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"___ Miniver" : MRS
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Participial ending : ING
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Actress Farrow : MIA
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Suffix with velvet : EEN

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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