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Nancy Nicholson Joline
Nancy Nicholson Joline

New York Times, Saturday, July 8, 1989

46-Down : Responds to a stimulus

Author:
Nancy Joline
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F J K Q V X }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5 Grid has supersymmetry.
Nancy Nicholson Joline has 61 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 48 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Nancy Joline is an alias for Nancy Nicholson Joline.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,487
Across
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Jai alai : PELOTA
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Fulminated : RAILED
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Member of an Iowa sect : AMANITE
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Dutch landscapist: 1638-1709 : HOBBEMA
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Half-turn on horseback : CARACOL
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Pharyngeal mass : ADENOID
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Bambi's aunt : ENA
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Central Park designer : OLMSTED
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___ Dinh Diem : NGO
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Namath's last team : RAMS
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Numbers game : LOTTO
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Kind of straits : DIRE
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Post for a harbor house : STILT
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Deli staple : RYE
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End and time followers : ZONES
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Pooh pal : EEYORE
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The Colossus was here : RHODES
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Classic drama of Japan : NOH
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Energy unit : ERG
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Carbolic acid : PHENOL
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A great-great-grandfather of Elizabeth : ALBERT
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Luster : GLOSS
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Demeanor : AIR
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___-propre : AMOUR
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Objects : AIMS
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Falana and Montez : LOLAS
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Miffed : SORE
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Ferber's "___ Palace" : ICE
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Japanese straw mats : TATAMIS
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Fed. loan agcy. : SBA
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Verrazano-___ Bridge : NARROWS
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Cockamamie : IDIOTIC
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St.-___, capital of Loire : ETIENNE
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Geometry term : SEGMENT
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Fowl foolers : DECOYS
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Some drums : SNARES
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Certain harness horses : PACERS
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Issue : EMANATE
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Wyo. city : LARAMIE
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"___ Clear Day" : ONA
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Costa Rican native : TICO
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Kwajalein, e.g. : ATOLL
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Agnes De Mille ballet : RODEO
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Not risen : ABED
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Arabic "son of" : IBN
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Like Elsa : LEONINE
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Fleers from France: 1789 : EMIGRES
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Decorative lower-wall moldings : DADOES
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Novelist Leonard : ELMORE
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Carroll's mad one : HATTER
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Place for a porker : STY
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Vulpine trait : SLYNESS
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Carnival attractions : DODGEMS
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Roger Rabbit et al. : TOONS
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Kazantzakis hero : ZORBA
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Sigma preceder : RHO
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Loki's daughter : HEL
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Folded like a fan : PLICATE
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Of heroic dimensions : HOMERIC
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Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism : LAOTSE
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Ami of D'Artagnan : ARAMIS
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Chanticleer : ROOSTER
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Water wheel, e.g. : TURBINE
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Procured : GAINED
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Docker's org. : ILA
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Responds to a stimulus : REACTS
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" ... like satyrs grazing on the ___": Marlowe : LAWNS
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A decagon has 10 : SIDES
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Obie's cousin : TONY
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Portent : SIGN
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Vintage auto : REO
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German granny : OMA

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

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