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Mary Virginia Orna
Mary Virginia Orna

MAYHEM

New York Times, Sunday, May 12, 1985

56-Down : Cactus fruit

Author:
Mary Virginia Orna
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 170, Blocks: 100, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 626 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 148, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13
Mary Virginia Orna has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Regarding 69-Across clue, "des Prés" is far more commonly written as "des Prez," including by the composer himself; left as in the original.

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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,969
Across
1
MAYenne pancake : CREPE
6
Wants : LACKS
11
Bath, e.g. : SPA
14
Snipe's habitat : MARSH
19
Navigational system : LORAN
20
"The Terrible" czar : IVANIV
22
MAYapple, e.g. : HERB
24
Emulate Isocrates : ORATE
25
Impofo : ELAND
26
Viennese violinist : MORINI
27
Employer : USER
28
"Separate Tables" actor : NIVEN
29
Choir members : ALTOS
30
Acrimonious : BITTER
31
Potion portion : DOSE
32
Adolescent period : TEENS
33
Famed queen or horse : NOOR
34
Fashion : MODE
35
Neptune and Pluto : GODS
37
Musagetes : APOLLO
39
___ Pasha, The Lion of Janina : ALI
41
"Then ___ of warm, sea-scented beach": Browning : AMILE
43
Crucial time in 1944 : DDAY
44
Two MAYors of N.Y.C. : BEAMEANDWAGNER
50
Pelion's supporter : OSSA
51
Triumphs for a QB : TDS
54
Atahualpa's subjects : INCAS
55
Urals locale : EURASIA
56
Ethiopian Christian : COPT
57
Enjoy a quid : CHEW
58
Summer quenchers : ADES
59
Tiny chorine : PONY
60
Pyrenean principality : ANDORRA
62
Turkish province : URFA
63
MAYday's cousin : SOS
64
Sheet of stamps : PANE
65
D.D.E.'s command : ETO
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Capstone : ACME
68
Prink : PREEN
69
___ Prés, memorable Flemish composer : DES
70
Ovid topic : AMOR
71
Mother of Hera : RHEA
72
One's chips : STACK
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Bucolic : RURAL
81
Moiseyev movement : PLIE
82
Tricklet : RILL
83
Assn. begun in 1948 : OAS
84
GaMAY, e.g. : GRAPE
85
Foxx from St. Louis : REDD
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Cleaver's "Soul on ___" : ICE
87
Large barge : SCOW
89
License plate : TAG
92
Mike of baseball : IVIE
93
Summaries : DIGESTS
95
Chemical suffix : ITOL
96
Diet : FARE
97
Herriot's colleagues, for short : VETS
98
Keelbills : ANIS
99
A "Juarez" star and family : AHERNES
102
"Stormy Weather" composer : ARLEN
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Curve : ESS
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Cherbourg cherub : ANGE
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MAYa, e.g. : ANCIENTMEXICAN
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J.F.K. and L.B.J. : DEMS
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Hard : STONY
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Ending for gate or boot : LEG
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Direction for Dorothy MAYnor : ARIOSO
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"Friendly" pronoun : THOU
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Prefix for trust or thesis : ANTI
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Director Richter: 1888-1976 : HANS
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Bart or Belle : STARR
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St. Philip ___, famed Italian priest : NERI
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Drowsy one : NODDER
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Sandal part : STRAP
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Bygone : OLDEN
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MAYten or MAYeng : TREE
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Shock : TRAUMA
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Hawk's haunt : AERIE
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Popularizer of "Mule Train" : LAINE
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Radiator sound : HISS
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Participated in a pep rally : YELLED
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Tarts thief : KNAVE
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Almond willow : OSIER
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Between A.S.T. and C.S.T. : EST
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Podetia : SETAE
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Ancient Briton's chariot : ESSED
Down
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Spotless : CLEAN
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Psychologist MAY : ROLLO
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Kin of Calliope : ERATO
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Cape MAY seascapes, e.g. : PANORAMAS
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Remnants : ENDS
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Place of oblivion : LIMBO
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Dodge : AVOID
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Deux or valet : CARTE
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Set : KNIT
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Tangent's relative : SINE
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Quake and shake : SHUDDER
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MAYari mazuma : PESOS
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Olympian once imprisoned in a jar : ARES
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Guitarist from Madrid : MONTOYA
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What Shelley called himself : ARIEL
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"Myrrha" composer : RAVEL
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Off. worker : STENO
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Female lobsters : HENS
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MAYonnaise, e.g. : BREADSPREAD
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Maureen O'Sullivan daughter : MIA
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City on the Allegheny : OLEAN
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Trattoria offering : PASTA
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"___ Girls," 1957 Gene Kelly film : LES
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Bond rating : AAA
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W.W. II weapons : MGS
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Whistlers outside hotels : DOORMEN
44
A concern of a seamstress : BIAS
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Within: Comb. form : ENDO
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Coups for Connors : ACES
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Relative of krypton : NEON
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A 1984 movie : DUNE
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Askew : WRY
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Blackmailer's weapon : THREAT
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Flaw : DEFECT
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Posh : SWANKY
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Cactus fruit : COCHAL
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General LeMAY : CURTIS
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Bridge bid : PASS
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Rosa in "David Copperfield" : DARTLE
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Dramatist of Shakespeare's day : PEELE
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Encloses tightly : EMBEDS
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Craggy hill : TOR
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Cry of disbelief : PSHAW
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Hangings : DRAPES
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Private lines : ASIDES
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Peloponnesian native : ARGIVE
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These may be dangerous : CURVES
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Characteristics : TRAITS
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Gray matters? : ELEGIES
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Muscular contraction : TIC
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Cashmere or kersey : WOOL
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Word on a galley proof : STET
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Ending for macro or micro : COSM
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Steatite, e.g. : TALC
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Field : AREA
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Actor in "Quo Vadis" : GENN
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Natives of Nyborg : DANES
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So much, to Verdi : TANTO
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Hostel : INN
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DisMAYs : FRIGHTENS
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Luther's "___ feste Burg ... " : EIN
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Fernando V, e.g. : REY
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Whackswork? : AXE
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Queen's attendant : ADORNER
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Most pallid : ASHIEST
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Father of Phinehas : ELI
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Statue in Rockefeller Center : ATLAS
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Circle parts : RADII
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One of the Joliot-Curies : IRENE
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Lock : TRESS
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Mature : ADULT
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Site of games honoring Zeus : NEMEA
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It has its tricks : TRADE
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Wall decoration : ARRAS
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Dewy-eyed : NAIVE
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Jehu's delight : SPEED
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"Star Wars" pilot : SOLO
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Great Lakes port : ERIE
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Ilmenite and cuprite : ORES
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Soprano Clamma ___ : DALE
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Pete's follower : SAKE

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 9 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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