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John M. Samson
John M. Samson

CHILDREN'S HOUR

New York Times, Sunday, September 15, 1991

96-Down : Jimmy Nelson's canine dummy

Author:
John M. Samson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 81, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 553 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 124, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12
John M. Samson has 49 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,286
Across
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Beam : SHAFT
6
Kura tributary : ARAS
10
Piquant : RACY
14
Babushka : SCARF
19
Upper house? : AERIE
20
Hebrew letter : RESH
21
Twinge : ACHE
22
Certain long bones : ULNAE
23
Irish breakfast? (Seuss) : GREENEGGSANDHAM
26
Sesame : BENNE
27
Ohio college town : ADA
28
Phoenician vessel : TRIREME
29
Pretoria's locale : TRANSVAAL
31
Top of the world : EVEREST
33
French school : LYCEE
34
Pisa-to-Leghorn dir. : SSW
37
Vinegar: Comb. form : ACET
38
Provo plant : SEGO
40
Diamond, actually : CARBON
44
Associate : COHORT
46
Mongoose's prey : RAT
47
Don Juan's kiss : BESO
48
Ace : ONESPOT
50
Mideastern capital : BEIRUT
53
Threesomes : TRINES
55
Large moldings : TORI
56
Bring to terms : RECONCILE
58
"A Sailor's Admiral" subject : HALSEY
59
Comber's comb : CREST
61
Patient helper : NURSE
62
Mollycoddled : SPOILT
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Holds : HAS
65
Come out : EMERGE
67
Deserts : REWARD
69
Author Foley : RAE
72
Elk : WAPITI
74
Nobelist in Physics: 1912 : DALEN
75
Slouch : SLUMP
77
Abrades : CHAFES
79
Be a majority : OUTNUMBER
83
Whiteness, in Palma : AMPO
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Little Red Hen, once : PULLET
85
Bearded sheep : URIALS
86
Reveal : LAYOPEN
88
Slugger Van Slyke : ANDY
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Weaken : SAP
90
Company lover : MISERY
91
Warehoused : STOWED
94
Radiance : GLOW
96
"Echoi" composer : FOSS
98
Pro ___ : TEM
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Like the oak leaf : EROSE
101
Classified words : FORSALE
104
Ornamental pink : CARNATION
108
Play it again : REPRISE
110
AMEX overseer : SEC
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Forbears : OMITS
114
Nike's reveries? (Conford) : DREAMSOFVICTORY
117
Frozen dessert : BOMBE
118
Novelist Hostovsky : EGON
119
Aye-aye's home : TREE
120
Wyeth model : HELGA
121
Pleasure Island sounds : BRAYS
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Headway : DENT
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Sediment : SILT
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Artemis gave him stardom : ORION
Down
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Roman-fleuve : SAGA
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Round up : HERD
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Domain : AREA
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Tsk! : FIE
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British marquee : TENT
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Greek : ARGIVE
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Derby-winning filly: 1915 : REGRET
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Peace Prize co-Nobelist: 1911 : ASSER
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Ignominy : SHAME
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Talia Shire film: 1986 : RAD
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Ernst's eight : ACHT
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Brontë's trap? (White) : CHARLOTTESWEB
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" ... rosebuds while ___": Herrick : YEMAY
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Beneath the Laptev's surface : SUBSEA
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Witty Cosby? (Nicholson) : CLEVERBILL
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Author Sewell : ANNA
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Indian prince : RANA
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Intuit : FEEL
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Builder : ERECTOR
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Cape : NESS
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Protestant org. : NCC
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Actress Garber : TERRI
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Part of a rusty nail : SCOTCH
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Mexican state : SONORA
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Pepper missing? (Handford) : WHERESWALDO
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Dada daddy : ARP
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Frenchman : GAUL
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Vereen's horn? (Isadora) : BENSTRUMPET
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Douay Bible book : OSEE
43
Like prying Parker : NOSY
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Medical suffix : OSIS
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Teaching : TENET
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Tennis great : BORG
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Start of Mass.'s motto : ENSE
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Pleistocene Age : ICE
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Asgard resident : THOR
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Inroads : RAIDS
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Inquisitive Carlin? (Rey) : CURIOUSGEORGE
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Fox shelter : TEPEE
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Type of truck : PANEL
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Drizzle : MIST
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Actor Julia : RAUL
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Shady ones : ELMS
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Current unit : AMPERE
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Penn, to Pennsylvania : EPONYM
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Outfielder's error? (McClintock) : AFLYWENTBY
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Genetic initials : DNA
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Pakse's land : LAOS
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Nos. people : CPAS
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"Abou Ben Adhem" poet : HUNT
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Orsk's river : URAL
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"The ___ My Fingers," Arnold hit : TIPOF
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King of ancient Egypt : RAMSESI
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People of SW China : YIS
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An antonym for restores : ERASES
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Morse "E" : DOT
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Annelid : WORM
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Jimmy Nelson's canine dummy : FARFEL
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Gethsemane's locale : OLIVET
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Showed partisanship : SIDED
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Caesuras : RESTS
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Seed: Comb. form : SPORI
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Judge Priest's creator : COBB
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Livy's love : AMOR
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Abel's love : RIMA
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Brilliant, as a color : NEON
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Mirror, in a way : ECHO
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Sun: Comb. form : SOLI
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Therefore : ERGO
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Greenish blue : CYAN
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Ergate or kelep : ANT
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___ Borch, Dutch artist : TER

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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