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Robert Dillman
Robert Dillman

New York Times, Wednesday, July 6, 1988

49-Down : Dead tissue: Comb. form

Author:
Robert O. Dillman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Robert Dillman has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 16 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Robert O. Dillman is an alias for Robert Dillman.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,120
Across
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Improve : AMEND
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Year in Macbeth's reign : MLIV
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Course part : UNIT
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___ judgment : VALUE
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Certain log : YULE
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Munch between meals : NOSH
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A Bond adversary : GOLDFINGER
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Perry's creator : ERLE
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Lollabrigida et al. : GINAS
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Welder or needlewoman : SEAMER
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Indian-head coins : CENTS
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Beat : PULSATE
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Pencil part : ERASER
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"___ Boots" : PUSSIN
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Swimmer's measure : LAP
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Towers : SOARS
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Room or grease preceder : ELBOW
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Sets of tools : KITS
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Ashcan School artist : SLOAN
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Nimble : YARE
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Louvers : SLATS
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Steinbrenner, for one : OWNER
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Girl from Ipanema's complexion : TAN
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Choleric : IREFUL
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Negative verbal contraction : WERENT
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Not specified : UNNAMED
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V.I.P.'s transportation : LIMOS
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Enzyme that curdles milk : RENNIN
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Infatuate : BESOT
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Puck's fate, at times : ICED
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Luke Skywalker's enemy : DARTHVADER
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Pierre's weapon : ARME
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Jacob's twin : ESAU
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Mountain ridge : ARETE
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Thug : HOOD
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Degenerates : ROTS
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Odeum instruments : LYRES
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Part of e.r.a. : AVG
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Revolutionary figure : MAO
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Wing of a sort : ELL
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Attention getters' moves : NUDGES
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Specifies distinctly : DEFINES
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Kin of starlings : MYNAS
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Blockheads : LUGS
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Suffix for infant : ILE
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In contrast to : VERSUS
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Awkwardly : UNEASILY
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Psycho of "Psycho" : NORMANBATES
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Key Biscayne, e.g. : ISLET
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"You Are ___" : THERE
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Musical vamps : INTROS
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Otherwise : ELSE
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Verne villain : CAPTAINNEMO
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S. Korean port : PUSAN
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Some lodge members : ELKS
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Wading bird : RAIL
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Rove furtively : PROWL
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With the speaking voice : ALOUD
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Algerian port : ORAN
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"They ___ that-a-way" : WENT
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Base runner's lot, sometimes : STRANDED
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Rather recent : NEWISH
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Trucker's rig, for short : SEMI
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Change of residence : REMOVAL
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Car part : FENDER
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Road configuration : ROTARY
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Bathsheba's first mate : URIAH
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Dead tissue: Comb. form : NECRO
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"___ pray" : LETUS
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Parents' embarrassment : BRAT
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Kyushu volcano : ASO
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___ Bingle (Crosby) : DER
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When Paris sizzles : ETE
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Matter, to Belli : RES

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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