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Barbara Lunder Gillis
Barbara Lunder Gillis

ANNIVERSARY PIECE

New York Times, Sunday, July 21, 1974

5-Down : Crowd

Author:
Barbara Gillis
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 136, Blocks: 79, Avg Word Len: 5.32, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 543 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 124, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12
Barbara Lunder Gillis has 18 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Barbara Gillis is an alias for Barbara Lunder Gillis.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,108
Across
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Harm : SCATHE
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Khyber or Donner : PASS
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Western campus : USC
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Antiquity : ELD
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Spanish chestnut : MARRON
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Region of Pakistan : TIRAH
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Bors or Gawain : SIR
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Acclaim : LAUD
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Ones who prod : URGERS
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Shallow : INANE
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Some : ANY
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Actor Paul : MUNI
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Wood nymph : DRYAD
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More closely fitting : SNUGGER
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Dolt : ASS
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Ring outcome : TKO
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Fiftieth chance : GOLDENOPPORTUNITY
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Clear off : RID
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Season in Dijon : ETE
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Peak in Crete : IDA
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Retreats : NESTS
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Electrical unit : AMPERE
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Safety zone : ISLAND
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Football runners : TAILBACKS
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Desire : CRAVE
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Symbol of crowdedness : SARDINE
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Bard of old : SCOP
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Chemical action : REDOX
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Inclined : LEANED
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French pronoun : ELLES
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Reveres : ADORES
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Rawboned : LANKY
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Anger : IRE
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Bonheur : ROSA
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Versatile : MANYSIDED
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Calif. poppies : CREAMCUPS
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Agitation : SNIT
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Rumanian coin : LEY
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___ far (overdo) : GOTOO
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Spirited, as a collegian : RAHRAH
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Unravel : SOLVE
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British alfalfa : LUCERN
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Bengal native : MALTO
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Show sorrow : WEEP
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Amphibians : AMTRACS
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Until now : ASYET
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Stadium area : UPPERRAMP
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Wolfish : LUPINE
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City in Granada : MOTRIL
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Perfect : IDEAL
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Flowed : RAN
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German article : DAS
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Women's ___ : LIB
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Sixtieth golf lie : DIAMONDINTHEROUGH
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Upward: Prefix : ANO
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Sheridan : ANN
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Keats's urn : GRECIAN
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Brussels suburb : EVERE
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Beehive state : UTAH
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Bar staple : ICE
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Tree of Hawaii : ALANI
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Black eye : SHINER
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So long! : TATA
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___ de plume : NOM
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Climbing spike : PITON
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Style : MANNER
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Recipe abbr. : TSP
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Antelope : GNU
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Green and black : TEAS
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Restless : UNEASY
Down
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Anti-mosquito fire : SMUDGE
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Promised reward : CARROT
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Knitting pattern : ARGYLE
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Walk on : TREAD
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Crowd : HORDE
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Letters : ENS
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Betty Grable photo : PINUP
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Region of Spain : ARAGON
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___ de Cristo Mts. : SANGRE
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Bedding : SHEETS
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Dos Passos work : USA
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Horeb : SINAI
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Fifteenth plain : CRYSTALCLEAR
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Wood : ELM
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Toulouse-___ : LAUTREC
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Evacuation site of 1940 : DUNKIRK
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Tenth street : TINPANALLEY
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Electron tubes : DIODES
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Fountain items : SODAS
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Like dirt roads : RUTTED
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Sign : SYMBOL
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Nothing : NIL
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Transportation org. : NSA
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First trail : PAPERCHASE
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Fourteenth fortress : IVORYTOWER
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Male and female : SEXES
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Fear : DREAD
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River in France : ISERE
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Stuffs : CRAMS
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Fortification : REDAN
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Favorite of Aphrodite : ADONIS
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Cupid or Patch : DAN
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Red or black : INK
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French marshal : NEY
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In a peevish way : SOURLY
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Twenty-fifth bonus : SILVERLINING
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Sixth shade : IRONCURTAIN
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Rush : SPATE
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___ in the dark : ASHOT
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"And in the lowest ___ lower ... " : DEEPA
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Thirty-fifth hue : CORAL
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French parent : MAMAN
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Botch, with "up" : GUM
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Month: Abbr. : OCT
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Area: Abbr. : TER
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Province in Spain : LERIDA
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Small pet : LAPDOG
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Pitcher Warren : SPAHN
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Diacritical mark : UMLAUT
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Indicate with a finger : POINTAT
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Naval craft : PTBOATS
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Copy machine: Abbr. : MIM
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Feminine suffix : INE
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Delighted : ENRAPT
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Small penguin : ADELIE
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Port of Sicily : LICATA
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Chaperon : DUENNA
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Corresponds : AGREES
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Wines : SHERRY
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Cornice bracket : ANCON
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Children: Sp. : NINOS
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Ada of stage : REHAN
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Sheeplike : OVINE
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Gen. Arnold : HAP
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Large bird : EMU
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Dallas campus : SMU

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 14 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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