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Elaine D. Schorr
Elaine D. Schorr

SPLIT PERSONALITIES

New York Times, Sunday, April 12, 1981

80-Down : Fade from sight

Author:
Elaine D. Schorr
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 76, Avg Word Len: 5.29, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 543 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 129, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 13, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Elaine D. Schorr has 49 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,478
Across
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Sickle holder : HAFT
5
___ barrel (helpless) : OVERA
10
Deliquesce : MELT
14
Major port of Iraq : BASRA
19
___ of Man : ISLE
20
Lady with a lure : SIREN
21
One of the Adamses : EDIE
22
___- les-Bains : EVIAN
23
Jefferson Davis : THOMASANDANGELA
26
Ancient rabbi of Palestine : TANNA
27
Pamphleteer of '76 : PAINE
28
Argillaceous : LOAMY
29
Farm fledglings : CHICKS
30
Stuck : ADHERED
33
Gate in Gallipoli : PORTA
34
"___ We Dance?" : SHALL
35
Farm-machine pioneer : DEERE
36
Exchange premium : AGIO
37
Chateau roof style : MANSARD
40
Facial woe : ACNE
41
Lee Grant : PEGGYANDCARY
46
Gambling tab : IOU
47
Pharmaceutical ingredient : NARD
48
Horne highlight : ARIA
49
Kiln for curing tobacco : OAST
50
Soviet sea : ARAL
51
"___ Wednesday," 1966 film : ANY
52
Marg(a)ret Mitchell : ANNANDMARTHA
56
Berlin divider : WALL
57
Gauguin's paradise : TAHITI
59
Man's slipper or shoe : ROMEO
60
Give and take : BANDY
61
Care taker : NURSE
62
Ruins : BANES
63
Potsherd : SHARD
65
Spoil, as an egg : ADDLE
67
West ___, in New Guinea : IRIAN
68
Controlled oneself : HELDIN
70
Calcutta chief : RAJA
71
Carroll O'Connor : PATANDDONALD
75
Ring V.I.P. : REF
77
Son of Seth : ENOS
78
Actress Virna : LISI
79
Gay deceiver : RAKE
80
"The ___ that men do ... " : EVIL
81
Biblical verb suffix : ETH
82
Elliott Gould : SAMANDMORTON
86
Carpentry tool : VISE
87
Toothed : DENTATE
89
Noblewoman of Lahore : RANI
90
Rector's residence : MANSE
91
Nick of films : NOLTE
92
Rustic roads : LANES
93
Tarzan was one : SWINGER
95
"___ of Honey" : ATASTE
97
Notational sign in music : SEGNO
98
Byrd book : ALONE
99
___ macabre : DANSE
100
Wayne Newton : JOHNANDSIRISAAC
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Kitchen utensil : DICER
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Dies ___ : IRAE
107
Monkeyshine : TRICK
108
One of Calliope's sisters : CLIO
109
Inexorable : STERN
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Trading center : MART
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Kiangs : ASSES
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Sailor's saint : ELMO
Down
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Ten-strike : HIT
2
Combustion follower : ASH
3
Polly Holliday role on TV : FLO
4
Moderated : TEMPERED
5
Actor Davis : OSSIE
6
Comestible unit : VIAND
7
River in Ireland : ERNE
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Embarrassed : RED
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Parallelism : ANALOGY
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Powerful explosive force : MEGATON
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Tomato blight : EDEMA
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Turk's cap : LILY
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Caddy's contents : TEA
14
Where Jesus revived Lazarus : BETHANY
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Is utile : AVAILS
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Lewis Stone : SINCLAIRANDIRVING
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Flagrant : RANK
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Collections of quotations : ANAS
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River to the Rhine : AARE
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Irrigation device : NORIA
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Magna ___ : CHARTA
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Turkish city on the Seyhan : ADANA
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Pour port painstakingly : DECANT
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James Garner : HENRYANDJOHNNANCE
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Allotheist : PAGAN
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Atomize : SMASH
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Explorer Amundsen : ROALD
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Sans spirit : DULLY
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Breeches and britches : PANTS
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Pyle or Banks : ERNIE
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"Yes!" in Roma : GIA
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Walleyed pikes : DORES
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Roman Censor : CATO
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D.S.O. or D.S.C. : AWARD
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Leeds's river : AIRE
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Deplete : DRAIN
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Protozoan, e.g. : MONAD
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Set to rights : AMEND
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Polynesian dances : HULAS
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Acomous : BALD
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Quiz kid, e.g. : BRAIN
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Military headwear : SHAKO
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Leda's daughter : HELEN
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Slender as ___ : AREED
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First name of Rossetti : DANTE
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"___ deal!" : ITSA
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Oder feeder : NEISSE
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City in S.D. : PLATTE
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McPherson : AIMEE
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Root used in cosmetics : ORRIS
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King Cole : NAT
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Pooh-pooh : FLEER
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Fade from sight : EVANESCE
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Where brine is refined : SALTERN
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Jack Webb's web : DRAGNET
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Windfall : MANNA
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City on the Susquehanna : ONEONTA
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Quoits player : TOSSER
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Mary Quant style : MINI
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Operetta composer : LEHAR
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Portion : SLICE
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Functions properly : WORKS
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Says more : ADDS
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Australian honey possum : TAIT
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Rail with a tail : SORA
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Bargain-basement sign : ASIS
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Backus or Bowie : JIM
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A.M.A. members : DRS
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Kit and caboodle : ALL
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Target-practice order : AIM
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Cote cry : COO

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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