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Nancy Nicholson Joline
Nancy Nicholson Joline

TIPSY TITLES

New York Times, Sunday, July 23, 1989

11-Down : "Tennis, ___?"

Author:
Nancy N. Joline
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 78, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 500 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 115, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 16, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11
Nancy Nicholson Joline has 61 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 48 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Nancy N. Joline is an alias for Nancy Nicholson Joline.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,502
Across
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Kind of plan : AMERICAN
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Cloisonné component : ENAMEL
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"¿Quién ___?" : SABE
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Plant source of vitamin A : CAROTENE
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Lassie's family : CANIDAE
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Quahog : CLAM
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Unisex Shakespearean play? : TITUSANDROGYNOUS
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Aleutian island : ATTU
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Nautical direction : ALEE
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Vic's radio wife : SADE
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Zeus, to Cronus : SON
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Rooms at the top : GARRETS
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Transformed : REMADE
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Snack : NOSH
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Swiss river : AARE
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Souls : ANIMAS
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Eliot poem on the rewards of dieting? : THEWAISTBAND
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Waters the garden : HOSES
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Truth, in Confucianism : TAO
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Site of the patella : KNEE
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Pablo's uncle : TIO
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Country song from a Gershwin musical? : EMBRACEABLEEWE
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Kind of price : ASKING
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Actress Rehan : ADA
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"___ right with the world" : ALLS
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Diva Stevens : RISE
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Theater part : LOGE
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Pillages : DESPOILS
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Olympic event : LUGE
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At full speed : AMAIN
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Woolf work on the joy of housework? : ABROOMOFONESOWN
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Kepi part : VISOR
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"L' ___ c'est moi" : ETAT
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Norman and Walloon, e.g. : DIALECTS
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Traverse : SPAN
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Land in Eur. : AUST
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Bank claim : LIEN
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Scandinavian coin : ORE
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N.B.A. men : CAGERS
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Fitzgerald's tale for tots? : THELASTRACCOON
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Perseghian : ARA
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Fervor : HEAT
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City in Neb. : ORD
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"Ars gratia ___" : ARTIS
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Updike work on cooking wild game? : RABBITDELUXE
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___ Pointe, Mich. : GROSSE
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Blessing : BOON
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City on the Oka : OREL
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Guides : STEERS
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Unbranded calf, to cowboys : LONGEAR
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Alma-___, U.S.S.R. city : ATA
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Chip in a chip : ANTE
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Cartoonist Soglow : OTTO
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Alan or Robert : ALDA
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Freed-Brown film musical re commuters? : SINGININTHETRAIN
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Match : PAIR
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Air: Comb. form : PNEUMAT
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Went over again : RETRACED
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Exam for a teen : PSAT
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Long-running show : GREASE
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"Hamlet" setting : ELSINORE
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Recorded proceedings : ACTA
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Knightwear : MAIL
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Famed artist-designer : ERTE
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Rake : ROUE
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Porter's "___ De-Lovely" : ITS
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Stops : CEASES
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Former Indochinese kingdom : ANNAM
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"I Pagliacci" wife : NEDDA
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Writer Umberto : ECO
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Emulates Xanthippe : NAGS
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"Tennis, ___?" : ANYONE
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Common bait : MINNOW
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Tokyo before 1868 : EDO
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Rowan and Martin's show : LAUGHIN
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Beetle or gem : SCARAB
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Change : ALTERATION
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Glutton's activity : BATTENING
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Cassowaries' kin : EMUS
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Conductor ___-Pekka Salonen : ESA
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Like some tape : RED
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Estimates : RATES
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Tabula ___ : RASA
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Relative of etc. : ETAL
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Tokyo drinks : SAKES
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Onward : AHEAD
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Words with guerre or plume : NOMDE
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Russian log huts : ISBAS
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Debussy's "La ___" : MER
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Straddler : HOE
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Word with biscuit or dog : SEA
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Venetian official of yore : DOGE
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Cookbook abbr. : TBS
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"Five Graves to ___," 1943 film : CAIRO
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Archeological site in India : ELLORA
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Part of a k a : ALSO
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Grain disease : ERGOT
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Vienna, to Strauss : WIEN
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Actor Kevin from St. Louis : KLINE
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Not so hard : EASIER
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"Common Sense" author : PAINE
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Dictionary abbr. : OBS
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Singer-actress Lenya : LOTTE
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Capital of the Bashkir Republic : UFA
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Flaherty South Seas film: 1926 : MOANA
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Pointed instrument : AWL
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Engage : MESH
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What diaskeuasts do : EDIT
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The life of a hobo : VAGABONDIA
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Mud hens : COOTS
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___-Rivières, Quebec : TROIS
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Sixth follower : SENSE
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Cicatrix : SCAR
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Bowl-shaped antennas : PARABOLAS
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Absolute : UTTER
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Trip tripper, for short : LSD
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Lorelei's bailiwick : RHINE
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Between game and match : SET
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Bagel topper : LOX
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Hector's protector : ARES
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Lincoln and Maxwell : CARS
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___-Magnon : CRO
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Worshipful : ADORING
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Oscar winner in 1951 : BOGART
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Doyle's "The Red-Headed ___" : LEAGUE
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Last syllable of a word : ULTIMA
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Hails : GREETS
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Japanese land unit : TAN
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___ nous : ENTRE
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Lucy's TV pal : ETHEL
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Northern nomad : LAPP
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Horned viper : ASP
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Collections of sayings : ANAS
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Algerian port : ORAN
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Tex-Mex treat : TACO
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Opera-house feature : TIER
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Marcel's wave : ONDE
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Abner's father : NER
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Social follower : ITE
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Cycle starter : TRI

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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