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Violet Gale
Violet Gale

New York Times, Monday, September 29, 1975

36-Down : Exacerbate

Author:
Violet Gale
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K V W Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 56, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Violet Gale has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,543
Across
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Lummox : OAF
4
Kemal, for one : PASHA
9
Coins: Abbr. : CTS
12
Laborer : ESNE
13
African plants : IXIAS
14
Auk genus : URIA
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Miss Turner : LANA
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Place for a lamp, tissues, etc. : NIGHTSTAND
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Testy : FRETFUL
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Heroic poetry : EPOPEE
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Word with hooray : HIP
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Police-car feature : SIREN
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"___ a crowd" : THREES
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Ones who tolerate : ABIDERS
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Aspire : YEARN
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In addition : ALSO
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Bean : SOYA
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Fashion again : REMODEL
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Wins over : ENDEARS
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Norse god : ODIN
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Aspect : MIEN
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High nest: Var. : EYRIE
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Planting area : SEEDBED
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Kind of salad : CAESAR
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River of the Left Bank : SEINE
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High, in music : ALT
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Pluto or Venus : PLANET
51
Make a stab at : ATTEMPT
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Odious : DETESTABLE
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Cosgrave's country : EIRE
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Book-page sizes: Abbr. : QTOS
60
Arab chieftain : EMEER
61
Ivan or Peter : TSAR
62
Choose : OPT
63
Chides : RATES
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Dress part : HEM
Down
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Gravelly ridges : OSAR
2
Green Gables resident : ANNE
3
Take care of No. 1 : FEATHERONESNEST
4
Barracks art : PINUPS
5
Leaf-stem angle : AXIL
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One's John Henry: Abbr. : SIG
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Exclamation : HAH
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Argonaut member : ASTERION
9
Gain experience : CUTONESEYETEETH
10
Snare : TRAP
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___ qua non : SINE
12
Santa's aide : ELF
15
U.S. humorist : ADE
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Flew : SPED
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Wicked person : FIEND
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___ soda : SAL
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"Rosmersholm" author : IBSEN
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Learner : TYRO
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Observes : HEEDS
27
Textile fiber : RAMIE
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M.G.M.-movie sounds : ROARS
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Aleppo's country : SYRIA
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"___ Corn" : ALIEN
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Douay Bible name : ASER
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Exacerbate : EMBITTER
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Gave out the cards : DEALT
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Dutch commune : EDE
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Ruby and family : DEES
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Serves : CATERS
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Pronto! : PDQ
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Wife of Zeus : LETO
50
At the summit : ATOP
51
Sheltered : ALEE
52
Legal writ : MISE
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Carriage : PRAM
54
Thrice: Prefix : TER
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Doctors' org. : AMA
57
What you do with your boots : BET

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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