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Jeanette K. Brill
Jeanette K. Brill

OUT-OF-PLACE WORDS

New York Times, Sunday, April 25, 1982

96-Down : Angle of a leaf stalk

Author:
Jeanette K. Brill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 72, Avg Word Len: 5.27, Missing: { J Q V }, Scrabble score: 520 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 127, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 13, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13
Jeanette K. Brill has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,856
Across
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___ morgana : FATA
5
Implied but unsaid : TACIT
10
Potato, for one : TUBER
15
Having wings : ALAR
19
Royal city of the Canaanites : ARAD
20
Supreme Moslem deity : ALLAH
21
White poplar : ABELE
22
Where Hyde once presided : EIRE
23
Afghan road material? : KABULSTONE
25
Activity in a post-W.W. I free city? : FOLKDANZIG
27
Rivaled successfully : EMULATED
28
Rubbish : OFFAL
30
Fears : DREADS
31
Field for Fabius : AGER
32
Ria : INLET
33
Kind of physician : META
34
Hercules, to Iole : CAPTOR
37
Kind of lightning : SHEET
38
Site of battles of Bull Run : MANASSAS
42
Hair styles : AFROS
43
Get squiffed in Formosa? : TAIWANON
45
River in Wales and England : USK
46
Bellow : ROAR
47
Sassoon or Service : POET
49
Stir : ADO
50
Holiday in Napoli : FESTA
52
Dress (up) : TOG
53
Montana cosmetologist? : BUTTETICIAN
57
"___ Be," Beatles hit : LETIT
58
Cantabs, Elis et al. : STUDENTS
60
"Let's Make ___" : ADEAL
61
Greek moon goddess : SELENE
62
One of the dryads : ERATO
63
Fern leaf : FROND
64
Of yore : OLDEN
65
Full of chinks : RIMOUS
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Common contraction : ARENT
68
Word game : ANAGRAMS
71
Praying figure : ORANT
72
Swimmer's motion in NW France? : BRESTSTROKE
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Born : NEE
75
British buddy : MATEY
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Past : AGO
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Yorkshire river : AIRE
78
Tamarisk : ATLE
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Cuckoo : ANI
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German sweets? : BONNBONS
84
River, politician or cloth : TWEED
85
Winks : NICTATES
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Wash out : ELUTE
90
Ribs : TEASES
91
Hebrew month : ELUL
92
Pan-fry : SAUTE
93
Long and thin : LANK
94
Formulator : FRAMER
97
German engraver: 1471-1528 : DURER
98
Berkeley's colleague : CARTERET
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Know-how in SE France? : AIXPERTISE
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Error in chronology in Ohio? : ANAKRONISM
106
Wading bird : RAIL
107
Wildcats : EYRAS
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Bronx warbler : GORME
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Other : ELSE
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Swiss linear unit : ELLE
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"Last Case" sleuth : TRENT
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Over : ENDED
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Doyen : DEAN
Down
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Sham : FAKE
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Saroyan hero : ARAM
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Prohibition : TABU
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Flatterer : ADULATOR
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Vintner's employee : TASTER
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___ ego : ALTER
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Oaf : CLOD
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Pop singer Janis : IAN
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"___ Love ... ," 1924 song : THEONEI
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Crisp woven fabric : TAFFETA
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Corvette's target : UBOAT
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Mouth of a trumpet : BELL
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Wapiti : ELK
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Blush : REDDEN
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Epic hero : AENEAS
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Gershwin girl: 1929 : LIZA
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Sere : ARID
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Parts of divs. : REGS
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Nigerian seaport : LAGOS
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"But thou ___ God ... ": Neh. 9:17 : ARTA
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Tore : FLEW
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Cole Porter's "___ Men" : IHATE
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Puccini's "___ Lescaut" : MANON
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Drays : CARTS
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In progress : AFOOT
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Realistic in Czechoslovakia? : PRAGUEMATIC
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Antitheses of deles : STETS
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Of form : MODAL
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Nourishment in NW France? : SUSTENANTES
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Patty Duke ___ : ASTIN
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Ray : SKATE
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Water nymph : NAIAD
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Football plays : PUNTS
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Teutonic king : OTTO
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Feather an arrow : FLEDGE
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Sniggler for wrigglers : EELER
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Truth, to Keats : BEAUTY
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Vetches : TARES
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"___ Know Why," Wonder hit : IDONT
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Coppers : CENTS
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Bombinate : DRONE
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Quench : SLAKE
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Refrigerant : FREON
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___ about : ONOR
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Type of type : ROMAN
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Man from Tabriz : IRANI
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Odysseus' smart dog : ARGOS
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Get up : ARISE
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Wingding : MELEE
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Beginnings : SEEDS
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Hubbub : BABEL
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René's aunt : TANTE
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Activated : AWAKENED
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Most proximate : NEAREST
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Cerulean : BLUE
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Offend : OUTRAGE
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___ one (betting odds) : TENTO
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Miss Marker in 1934 : TEMPLE
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Nautical term : ALEE
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Gun mount : TURRET
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Smeared, in a way : TARRED
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Anthony : SUSAN
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Delibes opera : LAKME
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Get on : FARE
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Money in Meshed : RIAL
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Angle of a leaf stalk : AXIL
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Desperately urgent : DIRE
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Piece of mail : CARD
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Nettle : RILE
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U.S. satellite : ESSA
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Govt. agents : TMEN
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Son of Odin : TYR
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___ compos mentis : NON

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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