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Harold B. Counts
Harold B. Counts

New York Times, Tuesday, August 22, 1989

8-Down : Provokes

Author:
Harold B. Counts
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { G J K Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Harold B. Counts has 24 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,532
Across
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Built a pot : ANTED
6
More timid : SHIER
11
Blackjack : SAP
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___ Haute : TERRE
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Gay ___ : PAREE
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A Gershwin : IRA
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Creeping, evergreen plants : TWINFLOWERS
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Former boxing champ : ALI
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Cleo's way out : ASP
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Wins : EARNS
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Madison Ave. workers : ADMEN
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Alliance : PACT
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Most azure : BLUEST
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Calm : SEDATE
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Wingdings : SPREES
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___-Rivières, city in Canada : TROIS
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Vetch : TARE
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___-majesté : LESE
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Assyrian war god : ASUR
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Asian goat antelope : SEROW
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Freezes : ICES
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Bird beaks : NEBS
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Boo-hoo : WEEP
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Autocrats : TSARS
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Scene : LOCALE
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Love seat : SETTEE
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Kind of building, for short : PREFAB
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Anacondas : BOAS
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Helots : SERFS
49
Pub game : DARTS
51
Greek letter : TAU
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"___ Haw" (TV program) : HEE
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Boggs specialties : TWOBASEHITS
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"___ Maria" : AVE
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Seeps : OOZES
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Rajah's wife : RANEE
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Become one : WED
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Barn dances : REELS
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Pegasus, e.g. : STEED
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"___ boy!" : ATTA
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Current events : NEWS
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Step lightly : TRIP
4
Common crossword bird : ERN
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Beats : DEFEATS
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Bowling or trolling : SPORT
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A "Laugh-In" star : HAWN
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Provokes : IRES
9
Always, in poesy : EER
10
Auction event : RESALE
11
Short-haired house pet : SIAMESECAT
12
French city where Van Gogh lived : ARLES
13
Body-shop supply : PAINT
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Alençon : LACE
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One-on-one fighters : DUELISTS
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Forms couples : PAIRSOFF
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Cauldron concoction : BREW
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Musial or Laurel : STAN
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Gaelic : ERSE
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Oboe : DOUBLEREED
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Hindu garment : SAREE
30
Stogie, to George Burns : PROP
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Sesame: Var. : TEEL
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Parched : SERE
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To be, to Brutus : ESSE
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Mop the deck : SWAB
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Come-ons by 22 Across : TEASERS
43
Kind of oil : CASTOR
44
Barflies : SOTS
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Fiddlesticks! : PSHAW
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Female sandpiper : REEVE
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Effrontery : BRASS
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Get a few zzzzzz's : DOZE
50
Eve's second : ABEL
51
Prong : TINE
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To ___ (exactly) : ATEE
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Secondhand : USED
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"___ is me!" : WOE
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Toque or cloche : HAT

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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