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Arnold Moss
Arnold Moss

NO END IN SIGHT

New York Times, Sunday, August 24, 1986

1-Down : Bluff

Author:
Arnold Moss
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 142, Blocks: 76, Avg Word Len: 5.14, Missing: { Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 542 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 115, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 12, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12
Arnold Moss has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,438
Across
1
l. R.S. go-between : CPA
4
One of a Dumas trio : ATHOS
9
"The Sweetheart of ___ Chi" : SIGMA
14
Northern diver : AUK
17
Corded fabric : REP
18
Manes : SHADES
20
Idle : OTIOSE
22
New Deal agcy. : NRA
23
French avant-garde painter : ARP
24
"The Wedding of Camacho" composer : FELIXMELSSOHN
26
Neighbor of Aus. : GER
27
Presley's companion : GUITAR
29
Las Vegas lights : NEONS
30
Of the windpipe : TRACHEAL
32
Proofreader's mark : CARET
34
Fare for "Saturday Night Live" : SKITS
36
Slalom expert : SKIER
37
Washing-machine part : AGITATOR
40
Emulate Fadiman : EDIT
41
Mets or Cubs : ENNEAD
44
Like a gangster's ice : HOT
45
French medieval farce : SOTIE
47
Offshoot : SCION
50
Biographer Maurois : ANDRE
51
Foreign-exchange term : AGIO
53
Emulates kangaroos : HOPS
55
Relish : ENJOY
57
Entertainer Adams : EDIE
58
___ nova, Brazilian dance : BOSSA
60
Distinctive character of a people : ETHOS
62
Carried : TOTED
64
Some M.I.T. alumni : EES
65
Uppity person : SNOB
67
Saroyan hero : ARAM
69
Swift trips to Laputa and Lilliput : TRAVELS
71
Composer in "Amadeus" : SALIERI
74
Maui movements : HULAS
76
Counterpart : OBVERSE
77
Commotion : TEMPEST
78
Famed Spanish muralist : SERT
79
Actor Conrad : BAIN
80
Taramasalata ingredient : ROE
81
Side, to an M.D. : LATUS
84
The world, to Jaques : STAGE
86
Coach : TUTOR
90
Novelist Ehrenburg : ILYA
92
The stuff of jeans : DENIM
94
Korean War river : YALU
95
Former lightweight champ : ERNE
96
Devout : PIOUS
98
Harris character : REMUS
100
Gangland territories : TURFS
103
Emulate Olivier : ACT
104
Roman shield : SCUTUM
106
Mil. vessels : LSTS
108
Trojan War hero : MERIONES
110
R2D2, e.g. : ROBOT
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Strasbourg steel : ACIER
114
Body shops' concerns : DENTS
115
Wielded a gavel : PRESIDED
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Some teenagers' ailments : ACNES
120
Friends of the Vanzettis : SACCOS
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Mauna ___ : LOA
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Fitzgerald opus: 1934 : TERISTHENIGHT
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Pixy : ELF
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___ Town : OUR
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Like Art Deco : ORNATE
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Cugat : XAVIER
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Teachers' org. : NEA
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What Ado Annie could say? : YES
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Like Ozarks speech : NASAL
134
Chemistry Nobelist: 1963 : NATTA
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Burden : TAX
Down
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Bluff : CRAG
2
Land of the Quechuas : PERU
3
Internal inflammation : APPICITIS
4
Up to a certain point : ASFARAS
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To that place : THERETO
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Prince or Prince : HAL
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He ruled Valhalla : ODIN
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"The Battle of the ___," 1960 film : SEXES
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One of two events a year : SOLSTICE
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"___ a wise child ... ": Nash : ITS
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Kernel : GIST
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Setting of some Hardy novels : MOORS
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Quivering : ASHAKE
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Beasts protected by NEPA : ANGEREDDEER
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Carbamide : UREA
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Poet Shapiro : KARL
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"Summer and ___" : SMOKE
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Live oak : ENCINA
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Markey and Bagnold : ENIDS
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Use a shuttle : TAT
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A hair dye: Fr. : HENNE
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Until the last drop : TOTHEBITTER
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Sandpiper : STINT
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Jezebel's husband : AHAB
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Kind of dancer : GOGO
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Wild scene : RIOT
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Arabian gazelles : ARIELS
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Juno or Diana, to 50 Across : DEESSE
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Hebrew dry measure : EPHAH
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Southwestern oasis : OJO
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"O vile, Intolerable, ___!": Shak. : NOTTOBEURED
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Pianist Gabrilowitsch : OSSIP
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Fern part : SORUS
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___ Buena Island, Calif. : YERBA
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Slippery as ___ : ANEEL
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Drummers' triumphs : SALES
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Lifeboat device : DAVIT
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"Look'd he or red or pale, ___ ... ?": Shak. : ORSAD
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Film directed by Delbert Mann : MARTY
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Crime's location : VENUE
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Peels : STRIPS
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Ancient Greek dialect : AEOLIC
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Antony's plea : LMEYOUREARS
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Political unit in Bonn : STAAT
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"___ Vie," Maupassant novel : UNE
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Town in NW India : SIMLA
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Morose : GLUM
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Extraordinary : TRANSCENT
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Head of a tale : ONCE
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Soaks timber : RETS
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Racers at Indianapolis : AUTOS
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Sweet wine : MUSCATEL
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Quickly, in music : SUBITO
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Line or verse : STICH
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Flood : FRESHET
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Pride of Hoboken : SINATRA
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Neoteric : MODERN
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Cato in 149 B.C., e.g. : SENEX
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Lt.-making place : OTC
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Pope's list of three nominees : TERNA
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"La Vie de Jésus" author : RENAN
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Maneuver : PLOY
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Orgy participant : ROUE
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Cape of Good Hope discoverer : DIAS
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Hindu god : SIVA
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Olive genus : OLEA
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Barbary pirates' haven : SFAX
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As written, in music : STA
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Worthless one in Soho : GIT

Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 17 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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