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Irene Smullyan
Irene Smullyan

HOLLYWOOD BOUQUET

New York Times, Sunday, September 24, 1989

43-Down : Thresh

Author:
Irene Smullyan
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 168, Blocks: 94, Avg Word Len: 5.18, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 642 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 143, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 15, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11 Grid has duplicate clues.
Irene Smullyan has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,565
Across
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Nautical term : ABEAM
6
Sleight of hand : MAGIC
11
May or Charles : CAPE
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Pound, as in a mortar : BRAY
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Cruel master : LEGREE
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Mennonite : AMISH
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Capital of South Yemen : ADEN
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Carroll heroine : ALICE
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The indestructible Miss Bailey : PEARLYEVERLASTING
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Maillol's favorite subject : NUDES
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Terminus : END
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Lunatic of old : DEMENT
30
King of the Amorites: Num. 21:21 : SIHON
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Tun : VAT
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Large European tree : LIN
33
Devices for heating liquids : ETNAS
34
Kind of mite or peak : WIDOWS
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Burrowing rodent : HAMSTER
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More underhanded : SLIER
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Party of a sort : FETE
44
Monopolize : HOG
46
Wading bird : AVOCET
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The lovable Mr. Holden : SWEETWILLIAM
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U.N. org. : ILO
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Eastern Church monasteries : LAURAS
52
Scup : PORGY
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Swiss river : AARE
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Brouhaha : STIR
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QE1 or QE2 : LINER
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Like certain beaches : SURFY
57
Fast : RAPID
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Fragment : PIECE
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Der ___ (Adenauer) : ALTE
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Russian communities : MIRS
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De Mille or Rhodes : CECIL
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Famous evolutionist : DARWIN
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Gentleman farmer's degree : MSA
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Mork in tatters : RAGGEDROBIN
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Flavoring substance : ORGEAT
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Bury : INHUME
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Capital of Seine-Maritime : ROUEN
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Set straight : ORIENT
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N.Y.'s geographic center : ONEIDA
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The irrepressible Midler : BOUNCINGBET
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High priest : ELI
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Dahl or Francis : ARLENE
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___-et-un (gambling game) : VINGT
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Desiccated : ARID
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Foie ___ (table delicacy) : GRAS
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Part of a black suit : SPADE
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Indian princess : RANEE
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Do a framer's job : REMAT
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Icy : GELID
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So : THUS
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Ballad : SONG
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Broadcast : AIRED
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Fox or jackal : CANINE
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Poetic contraction : OER
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The adorable Miss Pickford : BLUEEYEDMARY
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Ancient Greek colony : AEOLIA
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Herb for McClanahan : RUE
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Bonnie one : LASS
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Common mosquito : AEDES
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Spread out : SPLAYED
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Envelope protecting a record : SLEEVE
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Nodded : ERRED
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"The pig was ___" : EAT
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___ de Calais : PAS
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"Life is an ___ itself ... ": O. W. Holmes Jr. : ENDIN
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Notorious mischief-maker : DENNIS
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Cousin of kvass : ALE
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Icy pinnacle : SERAC
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Miss Heming as a partner in crime : CONFEDERATEVIOLET
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Period : EPOCH
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Cordon ___ (top chef) : BLEU
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Edict in Odessa : UKASE
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One who sidesteps : EVADER
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Social attribute : TACT
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Hall, in Hamburg : SAAL
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A concern of Whittier : METER
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End of a Gertrude Stein quote : AROSE
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Mont Blanc, e.g. : ALPE
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"I've ___ to London ... " : BEEN
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Mild expletive : EGAD
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Airport abbr. : ARR
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Pinochle play : MELD
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Expert : MAVEN
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Verily : AMEN
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Encircled : GIRT
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St. John or St. Thomas : ISL
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Bonos' baby : CHASTITY
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Members of a medieval sect : CATHARI
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Juan's goodbye : ADIOS
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Writer Robert ___ Warren : PENN
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Siamese twin : ENG
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Popeye's nemesis : BLUTO
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Divest : RID
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The Red Baron, e.g. : ACE
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Permissive word : YES
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Ocelli : EYELETS
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Crown of flowers : ANADEM
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Eastern potentate : EMIR
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Tendon : SINEW
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Curriculum ___ : VITAE
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Poetic tribute : ELEGY
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Bizarre : WEIRD
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Tomlinson shooting the rapids : WHITEWATERLILY
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Seek : SOLICIT
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Subject of Tennyson's "In Memoriam" : HALLAM
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Serves : AVAILS
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Hardy friend at Pikes Peak : MOUNTAINLAUREL
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Pebbly rubble : SCREE
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Speed : TEAR
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Gurth, in "Ivanhoe" : SERF
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Thresh : FLAIL
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Bridge whiz : GOREN
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Euphorbia : SPURGE
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An anagram for sower : WORSE
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Poor man's mink : LAPIN
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Circe, e.g. : SIREN
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Ess : SIGMA
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Violin precursor : REBEC
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Small seeds of grapes : ACINI
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Debra of Hollywood : PAGET
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Bea Arthur role : MAUDE
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Dracula, for one : COUNT
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Sere : DRIED
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Lorelei's river : RHINE
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Bee sound : DRONE
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Stendahl's "Le ___ et le noir" : ROUGE
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Satellite's path : ORBIT
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Lacks : NEEDS
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Sweet Rosie : OGRADY
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Eurydice's beloved : ORPHEUS
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Jag : BINGE
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Designator : NAMER
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Singer Kazan : LAINIE
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"Ding-Dong! the Witch ___" : ISDEAD
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Actress in "The Maltese Falcon" : ASTOR
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Windmill parts : VANES
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Columbus's hometown : GENOA
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Awaken : ROUSE
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Frosty : RIMED
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Ages : ERAS
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Manxman, e.g. : GAEL
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Croats and Czechs : SLAVS
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Postscript : ADDENDUM
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Kind of audience : CAPTIVE
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Etiolate : BLEACH
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Quantity alongside a barn : YARDFUL
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Spooky : EERIE
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Rational : SANE
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Excess of solar over lunar year : EPACT
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Nine: Comb. form : ENNEA
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Diarize : ENTER
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___ weed, rangeland plant : EOLA
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Mild expletive : DRAT
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Leisure : EASE
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Hindu god : SIVA
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Actor ___ Ray : ALDO
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Residue : LEES
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Raison d'___ : ETRE
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Beauty-parlor service : SET
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Govt. agency : EPA
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Fabled big bird : ROC
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Network initials : CBS
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Monogram of a musical Duke : EKE
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Means of propulsion : OAR

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 11 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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