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Frances Hansen
Frances Hansen

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New York Times, Sunday, May 5, 1985

10-Down : Hercules on 12 occasions

Author:
Frances Hansen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 68, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 561 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 131, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Frances Hansen has 81 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 40 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,962
Across
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Shot to the green : CHIP
5
Garden bloomer : ASTER
10
Boot tie : LACET
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Stagehand : GRIP
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A Turner : LANA
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Crept in on little cat feet : STOLE
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Came up : AROSE
22
Tops : AONE
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Florist's bet: 1914 : OLDROSEBUD
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Wall St. bet: 1933 : BROKERSTIP
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Sparkling : GLITTERY
28
Disguise : CLOAK
30
Shade of red : TOMATO
31
" ... the ___ scooped in vain": Channing : SEASARE
32
Arctic explorer : PEARY
33
Last Supper depiction : CENA
34
Group sponsoring vocational ed. : ORT
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___ siècle (decadent) : FINDE
36
Made plans : ARRANGED
40
Golden brown : TAWNY
43
Weatherman's bet: 1909 : WINTERGREEN
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Fearful reverence : AWE
46
First of a Kipling trio : ARAG
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Meets a poker bet : SEES
48
Toward the mouth : ORAD
49
Campbells, e.g. : CLAN
50
Elevator cage : CAR
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Poet's bet: 1917 : OMARKHAYYAM
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H. G. or Carolyn : WELLS
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Certain greenhouse : ORANGERY
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" ... ___ and hungry look": Shak. : ALEAN
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Shrew's harangue : TIRADE
60
Tarry a while : DALLY
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Double this for a sweet : BON
62
"The Age of Anxiety" poet : AUDEN
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Saddle part : POMMEL
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Tenor : DRIFT
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Religiously neutral : AGNOSTIC
70
Like Old Nassau's walls : IVIED
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Bet by scads of people in Washington: 1977 : SEATTLESLEW
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Polly Holliday's TV role : FLO
74
Twerp : NERD
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Sneak a gander : PEEK
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Told a whopper : LIED
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Painted metalware : TOLE
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One of the Hagens : UTA
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U.N. bet: 1973 : SECRETARIAT
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Went a round : BOXED
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Gravelly-voiced actor Eugene : PALLETTE
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City on the Allegheny : OLEAN
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Swale : BOG
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Refinery fodder : ORES
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Ardent fans : BUFFS
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"La Bohème" waltz girl : MUSETTA
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Amorous hanky-panky : AFFAIR
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Chilean pianist Claudio : ARRAU
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Permit : SANCTION
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Publisher's bet: 1976 : BOLDFORBES
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Saint's bet: 1983 : SUNNYSHALO
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Assiniboin's ally : CREE
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Slammin' Sam : SNEAD
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Yoga position : ASANA
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"___ Tu," 1932 song : ERES
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Kind of heat : DEAD
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Words on a Wonderland cake : EATME
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Producer-director Josh : LOGAN
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Pace a racing horse : RATE
Down
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Chokes up : CLOGS
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Handel's birthplace : HALLE
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Ashley Wilkes's sister : INDIA
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Choral composition : PARTSONG
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State : ASSERT
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35.315 cubic feet : STERE
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Fat little jug : TOBY
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Chosen, in Chartres : ELU
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Symbol of worthlessness : REDCENT
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Hercules on 12 occasions : LABORER
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Deck out : ARRAY
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Rival of 32 Across : COOK
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Greenland native: Abbr. : ESK
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Walked in a wobbly way : TEETERED
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Door-to-door meter reader : GASMAN
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Church court : ROTA
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Pt. of a monogram : INIT
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Gourd or melon : PEPO
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Eared seal : OTARY
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Legendary Irish king : RONAN
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Do a dock job : LADE
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Oblast in the Pripet Marshes : PINSK
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Lambaste : CREAM
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Hot-tempered : FIERY
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Island in the Firth of Clyde : ARRAN
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Huntsman's bet: 1930 : GALLANTFOX
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"Balder's Death" poet-dramatist : EWALD
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Crowded : DENSE
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Taxco treat : TACO
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The Saône, once : ARAR
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Ensign's bet: 1937 : WARADMIRAL
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Spent : WEARY
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"Los Caprichos" painter : GOYA
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Sniff : SMELL
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Homophone for series : CERES
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Gave the eye : OGLED
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Powerful force : HABIT
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Up in the rigging : ALOFT
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Streisand vehicle: 1983 : YENTL
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Golfer's wife, perhaps : WIDOW
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Put a handle on : NAMED
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Pitched a piano : TUNED
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Shoelace appendage : AGLET
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Artwork in a G.I.'s locker : PINUP
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Mrs. Culp Hobby : OVETA
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He built a better plow : DEERE
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Croupier's implement : RAKE
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Kind of flu : ASIAN
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"Winnie ___ Pu": Lenard : ILLE
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Betty of songdom : COED
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Conventicle conveners : SECTS
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Disney's middle name : ELIAS
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N.L. Rookie of the Year: 1963 : PETEROSE
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In unison : TOGETHER
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Printing stroke : SERIF
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___ force (strokes of genius) : TOURSDE
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First letter in communications : ALFA
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Turndown : REFUSAL
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Russet pears : BOSCS
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Squiffed : LOADED
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Owner of the Blue Ox : BUNYAN
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Freshwater fish : BREAM
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Biblical food : MANNA
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Bride's headgear, often : TIARA
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Galsworthy book : TOLET
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By ___ (photo-finish phrase) : ANOSE
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Start of a kindergarten chorus : ABCD
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Links cry : FORE
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Small circus performer : FLEA
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Aid's partner : ABET
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Fly in the ointment : SNAG
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Spinoff of DNA : RNA
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Bob Hope's "baby" : USO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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