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Nancy Nicholson Joline
Nancy Nicholson Joline

New York Times, Tuesday, April 25, 1989

12-Down : Ribs

Author:
Nancy Joline
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 296 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has duplicate clues.
Nancy Nicholson Joline has 61 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 48 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Nancy Joline is an alias for Nancy Nicholson Joline.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,413
Across
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Japanese wrestling form : SUMO
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Executes : DOES
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Baseball's Connie : MACK
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Girasol : OPAL
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Aquinas's "___ Theologica" : SUMMA
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Jai ___ : ALAI
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Lad of fiction : HOLDENCAULFIELD
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United : ONE
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Noggins : BEANS
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Particulars : ITEMS
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Tey's "___ Farrar" : BRAT
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Congou : TEA
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Lad of fiction : PENRODSCHOFIELD
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Pelvic bones : ILIA
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Rows : OARS
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"Wednesday's child is full of ___" : WOE
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A neighbor of Thailand : LAOS
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Borgnine's Oscar-winning role : MARTY
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Kind of bike or farm : DIRT
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N.Y. bettors' letters : OTB
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Gang's territory : TURF
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Poet Sexton : ANNE
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Lad of fiction : THEARTFULDODGER
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Drollery : WIT
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Rochester's love : EYRE
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Sand bar : SHOAL
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"The Blue ___," 1930 film : ANGEL
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Equipment : RIG
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Lad of fiction : HUCKLEBERRYFINN
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U.S. Open tennis champ: 1968 : ASHE
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Anagram for loser : ROLES
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Former queen of Greece : OLGA
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"___ on first?" : WHOS
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Mickey Rooney's original surname : YULE
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Mangel-wurzel : BEET
Down
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London district : SOHO
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Second word of a fairy tale : UPON
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Capital of Maldives : MALE
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Like Father William : OLD
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Old gold coins : DUCATS
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Middle East sultanate : OMAN
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Ostriches' kin : EMUS
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Gal of songdom : SAL
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Rum cocktail : MAITAI
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Aweather's opposite : ALEE
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Serene : CALM
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Ribs : KIDS
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Slammin' Sam : SNEAD
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Zaragoza's river : EBRO
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Feudal lords' lands : FIEFS
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Port de ___, ballet technique : BRAS
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Disraeli was one : TORY
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Kind of light or whale : PILOT
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Israeli seaport : ELATH
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"Like ___, all tears": Shak. : NIOBE
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Ionian island : CORFU
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Derby : HAT
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J. R. in "Dallas" : EWING
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Greene of "Bonanza" : LORNE
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Prevent : DETER
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Jeff's comic-strip pal : MUTT
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Sound from Sandy : ARF
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Miami's county : DADE
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Vibrato : TRILL
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Rouses : AWAKES
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Stowe villain : LEGREE
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Easter-egg decorators : DYERS
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Airport near Paris : ORLY
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Eliza Doolittle's creator : SHAW
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Word with money or puppy : HUSH
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___ Rios, Jamaica : OCHO
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Hunt's Ben Adhem : ABOU
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Dickens's Little ___ : NELL
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Get one's goat : RILE
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"Picnic" playwright : INGE
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Punkie : GNAT
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Witch chaser : ERY
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Watch pocket : FOB

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

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