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Charles M. Deber
Charles M. Deber

WHEN IN ROME

New York Times, Sunday, August 18, 1985

12-Down : Punta ___, Chilean port

Author:
Charles M. Deber
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 80, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 530 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 118, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 16, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12
Charles M. Deber has 18 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 20 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,067
Across
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Inst. at Annapolis : ACAD
5
Kipling's Kim : OHARA
10
"___ in Calico," 1946 song : AGAL
14
Quiche ingredient : BACON
19
Glut : SATE
20
Author Paul de ___ : KRUIF
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Throwaway at Trevi : LIRA
22
Site of a main campus in Maine : ORONO
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More recent : NEWER
27
"___ Way," Cahn-Van Heusen hit : ALLTHE
28
Atop, poetically : OER
29
CARE concern : NEED
31
Kind of rap : BUM
32
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Jokers, in two senses : CARDS
37
W.W. II org. : OPA
38
What Ben Adhem did : DREAMED
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Perhaps : POSSIBLY
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Range fuel : GAS
44
Childe Hassam's "Summer ___" : SEA
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Halberd follower : IER
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Adman, in a way : TOUTER
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"Any port in ___" : ASTORM
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Mescal : PEYOTE
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Choice : OPTION
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Certain trailer trks. : SEMIS
60
Comfort : SOLACE
61
Heart : COR
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Lamb who had a Mary : ELIA
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Shade of blue or gray : HAZE
73
Seaver, twice : MET
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Gave a piercing look : GLARED
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"Dirigible" director: 1931 : CAPRA
81
Italian spirits : GRAPPA
83
Rouse : INCITE
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Product of Zeus's head : ATHENA
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200 or 1050 : AMETRICMEASURE
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Wolf's activity : BAYING
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___ Claire, Wis. : EAU
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Avocat's forte : LOI
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Rocker's contemporary : MOD
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Eavesdroppers : SNOOPERS
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Columns : PILLARS
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Doubly: Prefix : TWI
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Russian high spots : URALS
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G.I. Jane : WAC
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Space agcy. : NASA
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Caviar : ROE
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Word of honor : PAROLE
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Sacro adherent : ILIAC
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Sylvan clearing : GLADE
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Geraint's wife : ENID
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Digital computer : ENIAC
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Wine valley : NAPA
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Less irrational : SANER
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Phrontisteries : DENS
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Missouri campus town : ROLLA
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"Gang aft a-___": Burns : GLEY
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" ... life's but ___": Shak. : ASPAN
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Signor Ponti : CARLO
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Inclined : ATILT
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Like pots gone to pot : DENTED
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Actor Dennis: 1908-1968 : OKEEFE
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Kin of mins. : HRS
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Out, in Innsbruck : AUS
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Lerma or Pánuco : RIO
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Have the means : AFFORD
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Winglike : ALAR
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Hodges of baseball fame : GIL
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Punta ___, Chilean port : ARENAS
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Light beams : LASERS
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1000 : BONDSBOSS
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"You ___ what you eat" : ARE
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1009 : COWBOYTOM
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Ahead, narrowly : ONEUP
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Bellini opera : NORMA
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British cleaning woman : CHAR
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Like Willie Winkie : WEE
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Soprano Gruberova : EDITA
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Scottish goblet : TASS
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Aussie bird : EMEU
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Genuine : REAL
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Most banal : CORNIEST
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Cork fuel : PEAT
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What a theorbo was : LUTE
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Interruptions : GAPS
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Within an ___ (very close) : ACEOF
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Pointed tools : STYLI
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Off the cuff : IMPROMPTU
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"___ tu," Verdi aria : ERI
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Realtor's abbr. : RMS
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Jungle noise : ROAR
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And so on and so forth : ETCS
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" ... but now mine eye ___ thee": Job 42:5 : SEETH
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"Gigi" playwright : LOOS
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___ me tangere : NOLI
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Writer Anais : NIN
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Certain pitchers : CREAMERS
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B. Agr. aspirant : AGGIE
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Yugoslav island : PAG
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Hebrew scribe : EZRA
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Skinflinty : NEAR
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Ginglymus attachment : ULNA
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Tree resins : LACS
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Suffix with planet : ARIUM
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Kind of rocket : RETRO
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Legal paper : DEED
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Fiacre : CAB
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One ___ time : ATA
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1500 : PHYSICIAN
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Curb : REIN
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1100 : ANNOUNCER
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Leguminous plants : PEAS
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Israeli coin : AGORA
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Netman Nastase : ILIE
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Nat King or Old King : COLE
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"Jersey juice" : MILK
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Qualified : PASSED
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Tennyson heroine : ELAINE
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Rate higher : PREFER
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Woolly beast : ALPACA
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Harvest : REAP
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Apron or G chaser : STRING
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Slender shoots : TWIGS
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Half a Washington city's name : WALLA
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Baby talk : GOO
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Add up : TOTAL
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Leave by ladder : ELOPE
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Pass along : RELAY
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Beatty film : REDS
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Fabulist George : ADE
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Kind of can or ear : TIN
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Número ___ : UNO
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Part of R.S.V.P. : SIL
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Lone Eagle's monogram : CAL

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9 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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