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Mary Virginia Orna
Mary Virginia Orna

New York Times, Wednesday, July 16, 1980

48-Down : Disemploy

Author:
Mary Virginia Orna
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { B J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Mary Virginia Orna has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,208
Across
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Mild oath : EGAD
5
Iowa campus town : AMES
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"The Destroyer," in Hinduism : SHIVA
14
Kind of monster : GILA
15
Anger : RILE
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Was solicitous : CARED
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President born at Caldwell, N.J. : GROVERCLEVELAND
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N.F.L. champions : STEELERS
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Coastline features : INLETS
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Same: Comb. form : ISO
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Red oak, e.g. : TREE
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Most ashen : PALEST
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Villains' cries : AHAS
29
Fore and ___ : AFT
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Writer Segal : ERICH
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Joplin creation : RAG
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Matty, Jesus or Felipe : ALOU
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Declaration signer from Princeton, N.J. : RICHARDSTOCKTON
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Muse of history : CLIO
40
"___ y Plata," Montana's motto : ORO
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Lariat : RIATA
42
Winner over T.E.D. : HST
43
Kind of corner : AMEN
44
Literary types : GENRES
45
Run like the Hackensack : FLOW
46
___-Magnon : CRO
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"Ports ___," Ibert opus: 1924 : OFCALL
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Cotes, cottages, etc. : SHELTERS
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Supreme Court Justice for whom a city in N.J. was named : WILLIAMPATERSON
57
Eliminate : ERASE
58
Check : REIN
59
Northern Italian commune : ASTI
60
Plied the needle : SEWED
61
Blood fluids : SERA
62
Table staple : MEAT
Down
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___ Benedict : EGGS
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Surrounded, in a way : GIRT
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Succulent plant : ALOE
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Brubeck or Garroway : DAVE
5
Stop suddenly : ARREST
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Prefix with scope or phone : MICRO
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Wings : ELLS
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Understand : SEE
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Panoramas : SCENES
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Handel's birthplace : HALLE
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Dies ___ : IRAE
12
Outlet : VENT
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Puts two and two together : ADDS
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O.T. prophet : ELISHA
19
Shrew : VIRAGO
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"___ Championship Season," 1972 hit : THAT
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Spiny-finned fish : PERCH
25
Seed coatings : ARILS
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O.K. to the D.A. : LICIT
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Nymph who loved Narcissus : ECHO
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Crime climbing in our time : ARSON
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Wedding site : ALTAR
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Dramatist who wrote "The Devil upon Two Sticks": 1768 : FOOTE
31
Albacore and bluefin : TUNAS
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Related : AKIN
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Eliot novel : ROMOLA
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Pearson : DREW
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Type of cuisine : CREOLE
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Part of AMGOT or SHAPE : ALLIED
44
___ Green, Scotland : GRETNA
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Insincere : FALSE
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Professorship : CHAIR
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Is obligated : OWES
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Disemploy : FIRE
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Feline feature : CLAW
50
Graf ___ : SPEE
51
British streetcar : TRAM
52
Being : ESSE
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Vatican tribunal : ROTA
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In a ___ (out of sorts) : SNIT
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Woolf's "___ Dalloway" : MRS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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