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Ernie Furtado
Ernie Furtado

New York Times, Saturday, May 23, 1992

25-Down : Actress-singer Sandra ___

Author:
Ernie Furtado
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 47, Avg Word Len: 5.24, Missing: { J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 242 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 19, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Ernie Furtado has 18 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 12 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,537
Across
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Alabama's Crimson ___ : TIDE
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Did certain seeding : RATED
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Cosmetic : TONER
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Combat vessel : FRIGATE
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Barnaby Jones of TV : EBSEN
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Quashes : REPRESSES
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Former Argentine President : MITRE
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Botanist Gray : ASA
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Journal end : ESE
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Balzac's "Le ___ Goriot" : PERE
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St.-Tropez sight : MER
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Merchant guild : HANSA
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Big Ten inst. : OSU
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Place to purchase pickles : DELI
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Detroit dud : EDSEL
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___ en scène : MISE
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Concealed explosive : LANDMINE
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Perfumy : SCENTED
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Nullified : NEGATED
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Greatest of Arthur's knights : LANCELOT
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Start of a Caesar trio : VENI
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Pilasters : ANTAE
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Elm, in Évian : ORME
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___ Buddhism : ZEN
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Article of food : VIAND
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Vintage auto : REO
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___-shanter : TAMO
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Darkroom prod. : ENL
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L.A.-to-Las Vegas dir. : NNW
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Apportions : METES
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Place in statu quo : REINSTATE
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Actress MacMahon : ALINE
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More wretched : SORRIER
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Trudges : PLODS
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Kafka novel, with "The" : TRIAL
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Some crossword defs. : SYNS
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Certain mugs : TOBIES
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Tuba player, e.g. : INSTRUMENTALIST
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Plow man : DEERE
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Loser to Gans : ERNE
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Riverbank dweller : RIPARIAN
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Sci. of farming : AGR
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Mimeograph inventor : TAE
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French connections : ETS
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Loss of feeling : DESENSITIZATION
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Pace : TEMPO
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In which a strike may occur : FRAME
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Vend anew : RESELL
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Dead Sea ascetic : ESSENE
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Like Oscar-winning names : SEALED
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Equivocate : HEDGE
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Huckster : ADMAN
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Actress-singer Sandra ___ : DEEL
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Peruvian native : INCAN
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Bucephalus, e.g. : STEED
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Field of granular snow : NEVE
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Ship of old : SLAVER
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Tooth : CANINE
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Dead as a ___ : DOORNAIL
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Thirty, en français : TRENTE
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Manicurist in the suburbs? : MOWER
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Makes changes in texts : EMENDS
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Anatomical numbers? : NOSES
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Portrayer of a TV Theo : TELLY
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Cartographers' creations : MAPS
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And not : NOR
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___ Lanka : SRI
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Start of a refrain : TRA

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1 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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