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Nancy Nicholson Joline
Nancy Nicholson Joline

New York Times, Saturday, September 22, 1990

2-Down : Minute examinations

Author:
Nancy Joline
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 62, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 6.10, Missing: { B F J K Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 246 (avg 1.30)
Open Squares: 82, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Nancy Nicholson Joline has 61 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 48 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Nancy Joline is an alias for Nancy Nicholson Joline.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,928
Across
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"M*A*S*H" role : RADAR
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"___ moi le déluge" : APRES
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Deep well used in Mayan rites : CENOTE
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Teed off : STEAMED
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N.H. lake or town : SUNAPEE
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Actress Valerie from Galveston : PERRINE
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Aspirant to a throne : PRETENDER
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Pertaining to ecological series : SERAL
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Pain: Comb. form : ALGO
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Vanish : EVAPORATE
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Abounds : TEEMS
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Israel's Moshe : DAYAN
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Actor Danson : TED
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Whirlpools : EDDIES
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Envoys : LEGATES
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Retinue : ENTOURAGE
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Mosaic tile : TESSERA
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Hero of Trafalgar : NELSON
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" ... affright the ___ at Agincourt?" Shak. : AIR
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Coalesce : UNITE
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Former Pacific defense org. : SEATO
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Chasms : CREVASSES
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The slammer : STIR
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A language of Sri Lanka : TAMIL
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Social exclusion : OSTRACISM
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Bulldog follower : EDITION
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Balzac and namesakes : HONORES
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Execrates : DETESTS
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Leaps, like many a lover : ELOPES
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Book size between quarto and octavo : SEXTO
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Lacoste and Lévesque : RENES
Down
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Made a boo-boo at bridge : RENEGED
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Minute examinations : ANATOMIES
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"The Gentleman Is a ___," 1947 song : DOPE
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Egyptian solar deity : ATEN
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Covered with thatch : REEDED
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Corroded : ATE
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Illustrious people : PERSONAGES
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" ... ___ gifts than gold": Brooke : RARER
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State under an Islamic prince : EMIRATE
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Thesmothetes' milieus : SENATES
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Played a game on ice : CURLED
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Device for an arborist : SPRAYER
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Canceled : DELED
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Sudden outpouring : SPATE
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Weighs : EVALUATES
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"___ Love Song," Esther Williams film : PAGAN
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Libertine : SENSUALIST
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British machine carbines : STENS
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Lippershey's 1608 creation : TELESCOPE
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"Nymph, in thy ___/Be all my sins remember'd": Shak. : ORISONS
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Harangues : TIRADES
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Religious hermit : EREMITE
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Lampoons : SATIRES
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Inventor Elisha and patriot James : OTISES
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Standards : NORMS
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Emulated John Lithgow : ACTED
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Biblical heroine : ESTHER
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Shrub of the verbena family : VITEX
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Kind of model : ROLE
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Soon : ANON
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Ear: Comb. form : OTO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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