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Frances Hansen
Frances Hansen

MOM'S REMONSTRANCE

New York Times, Sunday, May 14, 1978

96-Down : Letter on a key

Author:
Frances Hansen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 144, Blocks: 78, Avg Word Len: 5.04, Missing: { Q }, Scrabble score: 593 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 102, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 16, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12 Grid has duplicate clues.
Frances Hansen has 81 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 40 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,501
Across
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Accept eagerly : LAPUP
6
Soprano Anna : MOFFO
11
Killer whale : ORCA
15
Island attacked Dec. 7, 1941 : WAKE
19
Persian : IRANI
20
" ... upon ___ in Darien" : APEAK
21
Kind of music or lore : FOLK
22
Germany's largest dam : EDER
23
Tale or crayon : CONTE
24
Throb : PULSE
25
Take to the hills : FLEE
26
Stone or Pound : EZRA
27
Start of a verse : IADOREALLTHESEFLOWERS
31
Waiter's burden : TRAY
32
Sweet girl of song : SUE
33
Bk. of the Bible : ESTH
34
"You ___ My Sunshine" : ARE
35
Dobbin's morsel : OAT
37
Writer Anaïs : NIN
39
Hen pen : COOP
42
___ vu : DEJA
45
More of the verse : YOUSENTMEWHOLEBOWERS
51
Dip bait lightly : DAP
52
Little, in Lille : PEU
53
Bikini part : BRA
54
Rip : TEAR
55
Business letter abbr. : ENCL
56
Lamb : ELIA
58
"Bonheur de Vivre" painter : MATISSE
61
Take ___ (relax) : ITEASY
63
Nonplus : STUMP
65
Penpoint : NIB
66
Vast amount : SEA
68
Between L and P : MNO
69
More of the verse : IAMTOUCHEDANDBEGUILED
77
Single : ONE
78
"Why ___ Love You?" : DOI
79
Self: Prefix : AUT
80
Popular steak cut : TBONE
81
Lively Latin dance : CHACHA
85
Visited a warren : SLUMMED
88
Prefix for chord : OCTA
89
Girlfriend of 95 Across : OOLA
90
___ Ridge, famed horse : RIVA
94
Naval off. : ENS
95
Alley of comics : OOP
97
Indian mulberry : AAL
98
More of the verse : BUTREMEMBERDEARCHILD
103
Like a day in June : RARE
104
Cambodian money : RIEL
105
Building wing : ELL
106
Kith's partner : KIN
107
Sort : ILK
109
Wild goat : TAHR
111
New Guinea seaport : LAE
113
Computer input : DATA
117
End of the verse : TODAYISNTMYDAYITSOURS
124
Like a bump on ___ : ALOG
125
Siamese : THAI
126
Highway stopover : MOTEL
127
Hungarian farm dogs : PULIK
128
Loll about : LAZE
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Mountain lake : TARN
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Pilasters : ANTAE
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Subside : ABATE
132
Former spouses : EXES
133
Festoon : SWAG
134
Approaches : NEARS
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Traveller or Rosinante : STEED
Down
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Lawful : LICIT
2
Bellowing : AROAR
3
Zoo star : PANDA
4
"For ___ is born this day ... ": Luke 2:11 : UNTOYOU
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Jetty : PIER
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N.Z. tree : MAPAU
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Rich : OPULENT
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Cut down trees : FELL
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Snaps, e.g. : FASTENERS
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Slangy assents : OKEHS
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Outgrowth : OFFSHOOT
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Function : ROLE
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Musical symbol : CLEF
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Kipling's wolf : AKELA
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"And this little pig cried ___ ... " : WEEWEEWEE
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Carpenter's tool : ADZE
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Walter, Jean or Deborah : KERR
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Time periods : ERAS
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Regard highly : ESTEEM
29
Engrave : ETCH
30
Church calendar : ORDO
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Cleo's way out : ASP
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Had a few drinks : IMBIBED
40
Corrida cry : OLE
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Princess-prodder : PEA
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Napoleon triumphed here: 1806 : JENA
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Rainbows : ARCS
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Conference site: 1945 : YALTA
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Sherlock Holmes's drug : OPIUM
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Subtle shading : NUANCE
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Yuletide celebrant : WASSAILER
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" ... ___ me a beaker of wine" : BRING
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Sneaky : SLY
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Arnaz : DESI
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Pt. or qt. : AMT
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Initials for a royal couple : TIH
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Poet's word : EEN
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Race-track figure : TOUT
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Winnie of fiction : POOH
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"___with a dulcimer ... " : ADAMSEL
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Shooting star : METEOR
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Deprive of weapons : UNARM
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___ Passos : DOS
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Kind of steer : BUM
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Nigerian tribe : IBO
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Making all stops : LOCAL
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Inward: Anat. : ENTAD
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New or raw : DEAL
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Male swan : COB
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H or witching : HOUR
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Can. province : ALTA
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Gigs and cabriolets : CARRIAGES
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Like a rare steak : UNDERDONE
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Court list : DOCKET
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Comparative suffix : IER
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Gen. Marshall's alma mater : VMI
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In on the crime : ABETTING
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Letter on a key : PHI
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Slippery : EELY
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Susa's kingdom : ELAM
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"Open ___" (resort boast) : ALLYEAR
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Hesitating : INDOUBT
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St. ___, Leeward island : KITTS
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Kaplan of fiction : HYMAN
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Attachments for anges : AILES
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Huge halls : AULAE
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Commonplace : TRITE
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Requested : ASKED
117
A likely story : TALE
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Evergreen genus : OLAX
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"The decent docent doesn't ___" : DOZE
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Sir Broadfoot Basham's creator : SHAW
121
Honshu city : NARA
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"___ boy!" : ATTA
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Health resorts : SPAS

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

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