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Gayle Dean
Gayle Dean

New York Times, Wednesday, August 28, 1991

11-Down : Elusive points

Author:
Gayle Dean
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Gayle Dean has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 5 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,268
Across
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Bactrian backbreaker? : STRAW
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Light source : BULB
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Ruthless ruler : TSAR
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Fight site : ARENA
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Seed covering : ARIL
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A hoop of the Fifties : HULA
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Resting spots : SEATS
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She's in the high-C areas : DIVA
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Dark : EBON
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Make a tentative assumption : HYPOTHESIZE
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Knight or Kennedy : TED
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Modernist : NEO
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D. Webster's adversary : DEVIL
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Nightmarish street : ELM
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"A ___ Is Born" : STAR
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TV's "The Young ___" : RIDERS
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Count calories : DIET
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A son of Seth : ENOS
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Sum up : TOTAL
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Give reasonable form to : INTELLECTUALIZE
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Coat with a tin-lead alloy : TERNE
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Reporter's query : WHEN
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Spore : SEED
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Busybodies : SNOOPS
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Geraint's wife : ENID
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Sixties org. on campuses : SDS
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Readies, for short : PREPS
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Globe : ORB
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Sci-fi saucer : UFO
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Bring into accord with reason : RATIONALIZE
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Farm sight : SILO
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Inn offering : ROOM
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Estate : MANOR
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London Magazine essayist : ELIA
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Large handbag : TOTE
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Element found in 6 Across : ARGON
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Worktable : DESK
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Novelist Paton : ALAN
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Appears : SEEMS
Down
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Window part : SASH
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Low card : TREY
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Harvest : REAP
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Playwright Chekhov : ANTON
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Squanders : WASTES
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Commanded : BADE
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"Trinity" author : URIS
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Enraged : LIVID
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Sports jacket : BLAZER
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Article : THE
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Elusive points : SUBTLETIES
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Fiber-yielding plant : ALOE
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Author Ayn : RAND
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Arthur Hailey novel : HOTEL
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Musical set in Argentina : EVITA
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Rock stars, to teen-agers : IDOLS
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Readies for publication : EDITS
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Material from flax : LINEN
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Locale of The Daily Planet : METROPOLIS
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Afresh : ANEW
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Author Mazo de la ___ : ROCHE
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Demolished : RAZED
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Glides over ice : SLEDS
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Carreras is one : TENOR
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British gun : STEN
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A Molokai denizen : LEPER
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Blue-collar group : UNION
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Peloponnesian War participant : SPARTA
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Pinter products : DRAMAS
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Bar or toad follower : STOOL
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Proclaim loudly : BLARE
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Secondhand : USED
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Manicurist's implement : FILE
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Jot : IOTA
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Portent : OMEN
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Little Sheba's creator : INGE
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Certain lens : ZOOM
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Sea eagles : ERNS
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"Mighty" plant : OAK

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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