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Hallie Parsons
Hallie Parsons
Gerald Parsons
Gerald Parsons

New York Times, Wednesday, September 11, 1974

2-Down : Birth and red-letter

Author:
Hallie & Gerald Parsons
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,160
Across
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Do copydesk work : EDIT
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Condiment : CAPER
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Kind of party : STAG
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Side of a bolthead : PANE
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Winged : ALATE
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Red or ticker : TAPE
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Truck stoppers : HYDRAULICBRAKES
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"___ was saying" : ASI
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Yugoslav resort : BLED
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Turn inside out : EVERT
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"___ and Sing!" : AWAKE
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Barracuda : SENET
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Canary's cousin : SERIN
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Suffer hurt feelings : SMART
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Witch : HAG
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Enter the pool : PLUNGE
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Biblical prophet : AMOS
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Continent: Abbr. : EUR
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White: Prefix : ALBO
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Gives a hard time to : RIDES
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Prefix for care : MEDI
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Party girl : DEB
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Crimson Tide, for short : BAMA
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Place for a certain shadow : EYELID
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Direction: Abbr. : ESE
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___ for Peace : ATOMS
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Table spreads : OLEOS
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Fabric : RAYON
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Pope: 1605-21 : PAULV
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N. L. player : ASTRO
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"___ Yankees" : DAMN
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Hail! : AVE
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Went Magellan one farther : CIRCUMNAVIGATED
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Robt. ___ : ELEE
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Protest form : SITIN
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Tam-tam : GONG
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Timetable, for short : SKED
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Suffragist Lucy : STONE
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Chichi : ARTY
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Hebrew measure : EPHA
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Birth and red-letter : DAYS
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Source of golf balls : INDIARUBBERTREE
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Thrice: Prefix : TER
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Stop a leak : CAULK
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Malls : ALLEES
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Rubber-stamp word : PAID
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Common Latin abbr. : ETC
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Johnny from Dixie : REB
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Verse : STAVE
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Rise the easy way : TAKETHEELEVATOR
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Imitative one : APER
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Exploit : GEST
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"Not with ___ but a whimper" : ABANG
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Schisms : RENTS
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Bowery figure : WINO
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Tantamount : SAME
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Uneven : EROSE
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Garden tool : SPADE
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French pronoun : ELLES
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"___, I'm Adam" : MADAM
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TV component : AUDIO
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Networks : GRIDS
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Muse : ERATO
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"___ my last legs" : IMON
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Pell's follower : MELL
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Louisiana sight : BAYOU
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Offspring : YOUNG
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Leg trouble for Dobbin : SPAVIN
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Curved : ARCED
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Chemical compound : AMINE
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Golf thrills : ACES
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Kind of hat or worm : SILK
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Malay chief : DATO
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Outlet : VENT
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Impatient : EDGY
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Papers: Abbr. : MSS
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Insect egg : NIT
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Khan : AGA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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