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Evelyn Benshoof
Evelyn Benshoof

New York Times, Tuesday, April 22, 1986

61-Down : Military body

Author:
Evelyn Benshoof
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 251 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Evelyn Benshoof has 71 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,314
Across
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Transfix : STAB
5
Footwear : CLOG
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Sedate : GRAVE
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Spanish sailor's "Ahoy!" : HOLA
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Cast : HURL
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Predominated : RULED
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___ Islands, off Ireland : ARAN
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Vedic god : AGNI
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Growing out : ENATE
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Deteriorate : RUNTOSEED
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Cap ___, baseball Hall of Famer : ANSON
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Tolerate : ENDURE
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Unconstrained : EASY
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Cart : DRAY
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Lower : DEMOTE
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Thither : THERE
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Prevaricated : LIED
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Of an epoch : ERAL
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Happen again : RECUR
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Solidify : GEL
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Digger ___ in "The Life of Riley" : ODELL
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Ferrum : IRON
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Indonesian island : BALI
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Pretty girl : BELLE
46
Spanish wine : MALAGA
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Small fish : DACE
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Uncouth : RUDE
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Be ambitious : ASPIRE
57
Bobbin : SPOOL
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Place horses : RUNNERSUP
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Afghan capital : KABUL
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Ever and ___ : ANON
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Burner : ETNA
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Hole-___ (golf thrill) : INONE
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Airtight pit or tower : SILO
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Banking inits. : SLIC
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Impoverished : NEEDY
70
College or collar : ETON
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Forwarded : SENT
Down
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Be altruistic : SHARE
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Polish city : TORUN
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Jerrold's "___ of Plenty" : ALAND
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African tongue : BANTU
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Soda, sometimes : CHASER
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Sled : LUGE
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French department : ORNE
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Slither : GLIDE
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Kind of monkey or gun : GREASE
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Magna Carta site : RUNNYMEDE
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Word said with a sigh : ALAS
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Reject a bill : VETO
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Paradise : EDEN
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Ukase : ORDER
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Total : ADD
27
Water plant : ALGA
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Bear : YIELD
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Soviet city : OREL
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Like Bol of the Bullets : TALL
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She: Fr. : ELLE
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Spruce : TRIM
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Sister of Zeus : HERA
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Bio. branch : ECOL
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Evasive treatment : RUNAROUND
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Lamb : ELIA
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Corpulent : OBESE
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Atrocious : BAD
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Part of a cricket field : GULLEY
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Howitzer, e.g. : CANNON
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Rub out : ERASE
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Fourth Estate : PRESS
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Carpet fiber : ISTLE
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Arrest a crook : RUNIN
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Solar-lunar year difference : EPACT
57
Fleece : SKIN
58
French-door part : PANE
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Relative of an English horn : OBOE
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Military body : UNIT
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___ contendere : NOLO

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1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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