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Marie West
Marie West

GOING PLACES

New York Times, Sunday, September 2, 1973

16-Down : English river

Author:
Marie West
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 72, Avg Word Len: 5.27, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 531 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 124, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 15
Marie West has 21 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1973, The New York TimesNo. 8,786
Across
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Whaleboat helmsman : SLUER
6
Cheers : RAHS
10
Pops : DADS
14
Rope base : SISAL
19
Moon crater : LINNE
20
Cruising : ASEA
21
Combat : DUEL
22
Kind of venous : INTRA
23
Moslem lords : AMIRS
24
Quarrel : SPAT
25
Shoppers' transit : ESCALATORS
27
Tot's transit : VELOCIPEDE
29
Fourth word : SANE
30
Cupid : EROS
31
Daisy's transit : ABICYCLEBUILTFORTWO
35
Obvious : PATENT
37
Employe's concern : TENURE
38
Greek letter : TAU
39
Fortas : ABE
40
___ mater : DURA
42
Part of a step : RISER
45
Ups anchor : TRIPS
49
Barrel of sorts : PORK
51
Perceived : SENSATE
54
Inactivate : MOTHBALL
56
Benefit : AVAIL
58
Short distance : STEP
59
Lips : LABIA
61
Spanish drink : AGUA
62
Pipe worker : WELDER
64
Atlas item : MAP
66
Nonsense : BUNK
67
Prying : NOSY
68
Transit to nowhere : ROLLERCOASTER
73
Bears or Cubs : TEAM
77
Chinese money : TAEL
78
Kind of too : TAT
79
Clodhopper : RUSTIC
84
Sandwich : HERO
85
Woodwinds : OBOES
87
Hebrew weight : REBA
90
Adams : MAUDE
91
Together : INUNISON
93
Northwest, for one : PASSAGE
96
Wide smile : GRIN
97
Council : SYNOD
98
Diva's spoken passage: Abbr. : RECIT
100
Straight : NEAT
102
"___ a chance!" : NOT
103
Vegetable : PEA
105
Nearby : AROUND
108
Marshmallow events : ROASTS
110
S. F. transit : CABLECARSONPOWELLST
116
City in India : AGRA
117
Up a ___ : TREE
118
Work-sheet entry : TRAVELTIME
121
Lowly transit : SHANKSMARE
124
Jason's ship : ARGO
125
Hay machine : BALER
126
Port : HAVEN
127
Ferber : EDNA
128
Weirdo : KOOK
129
Toward the back : AREAR
130
"___ of robins ... " : ANEST
131
Color expert : DYER
132
Orbs, old style : EYNE
133
Takes a breather : RESTS
Down
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Ruthenian : SLAV
2
Rickey fruit : LIME
3
Kind of decision : UNILATERAL
4
Attire : ENROBE
5
Abrogate : RESCIND
6
Grating : RASPY
7
Facing, in heraldry : ASPECTANT
8
Part of a loom: Var. : HEADLE
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Shiny fabric : SATEEN
10
W. W. II monogram : DDE
11
Sydneyites : AUSSIES
12
Design for transferral : DECAL
13
Viewpoint : SLANT
14
N. M. Indian : SIA
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Onetime transit : INTERURBAN
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English river : STORT
17
Pointer on a map : ARROW
18
Rope : LASSO
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Decamped : LEFT
28
Metrical stress : ICTUS
32
Bacharach : BURT
33
Archangel : URIEL
34
Vow : OATH
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Fruit : PAPAW
36
Overhead : ABOVE
41
Legal matter : RES
43
Start a certain trip : EMBUS
44
Begone, to Shakespeare : ROINT
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Othello's friend : IAGO
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Extra bit : PLUS
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Destroy : SLAY
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Jackie Coogan role : KID
52
Mother of Dionysus : SEMELE
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Armadillo : APAR
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Bet participant : TAKER
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Sea god : LER
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Diminishes : ABATES
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Newspaper sections : ROTOS
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Bank abbr. : PCT
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Day or of love : LABOR
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Sierra ___ : LEONE
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Propellers : OARS
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Spirit for a zombie : RUM
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"___ little pig ... " : THIS
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Counting-out word : EENY
75
___ for one's money : ARUN
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Transit for Lindy et al. : MONOPLANES
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Droop : SAG
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Transit accesses : TURNSTILES
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Dostoevsky's "The ___" : IDIOT
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Small change : CENTS
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Agnew : SPIRO
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Political transit : BANDWAGON
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Iron or Stone : AGE
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___ fixe : IDEE
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Egyptian god : ATON
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U. S. inventor : EARLE
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Barracks : CASERNE
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Turnpike gate : TOLLBAR
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Performs : ACTS
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Mental grasp : UPTAKE
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King-of-arms : NORROY
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Looking fixedly : ASTARE
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Woolen fabric : CASHA
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Hindu month : AGHAN
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Courageous : BRAVE
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Fortified : ARMED
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Willing's partner : READY
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Summon : EVOKE
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H.C.L. item : MEAT
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Goofs : ERRS
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Chessman: Abbr. : KNT
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Attention : EAR

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8 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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