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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Friday, October 2, 1987

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 28.4
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,842
Across
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Finishing nail : BRAD
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Miles of jazz : DAVIS
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Kind of prof : ASST
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Elegance : LUXE
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Coeur d'___, Idaho : ALENE
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Tick's cousin : MITE
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Industrialist von Skoda : EMIL
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Shipworm : BORER
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Danube hue : BLUE
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Crawford-MacMurray film: 1943 : ABOVESUSPICION
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Least feral : TAMEST
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Military storehouse : ETAPE
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195 and 40 : RTES
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Uhlan weapons : LANCES
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Ichabod Crane's domain : CLASSROOM
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Journalist I. F. : STONE
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Nautical record : LOG
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Done in : SLAIN
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Heredity factor : DNA
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Plumed bird : EGRET
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Host of TV's "The Blue Angel": 1954 : ORSONBEAN
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Emulates Silas Marner : WEAVES
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Anagram for riot : TRIO
50
Berlin's "When ___ You" : ILOST
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Three-horse Russian vehicle : TROIKA
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Up for auction : UNDERTHEHAMMER
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Patella site : KNEE
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Clark Kent off screen : REEVE
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Bathe : LAVE
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Collar or jacket : ETON
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Neatness : ORDER
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Protection : EGIS
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Former Wolverine coach : YOST
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Deteriorates by use : WEARS
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Yurt : TENT
Down
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Meadow sound : BLEAT
2
Hip-moving dance : RUMBA
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Postulate : AXIOM
4
Helpful librarians : DELVERS
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Dilettantes : DABSTERS
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Baseball family name : ALOU
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Merrill's milieu : VERSE
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Bungling : INEPT
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"Perils of Pauline" was one : SERIAL
10
Encompassing : AMBIENT
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Farmland tower : SILO
12
Bedazzle : STUN
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Ess follower : TEE
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Superlative endings : ESTS
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Apr. computers : CPAS
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"Star Wars" captain : SOLO
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Area ___ : CODE
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City in Sicily : ENNA
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Actor Connery : SEAN
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Lower corner of a square sail : CLEW
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Renoir's "Dans la ___" : LOGE
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Pearl Mosque city : AGRA
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It fits a thole : OAR
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Aerosol output : MIST
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Storms from the Arctic : NORTHERS
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Obvious : EVIDENT
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Prefix with scope : TELE
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Early New Deal org. : NIRA
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Small upswing on Wall Street : BOOMLET
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Deep distress : SORROW
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Metric measure : STERE
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Gardner's "___ Calls It Murder" : THEDA
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Likeness : IMAGE
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Actor McCarthy : KEVIN
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"There's no music in ___ ... ": Ruskin : AREST
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"Do ___ others ... " : UNTO
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Avant-garde : NEOS
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Green preceder : EVER
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Cartoonist who created "Hazel" : KEY

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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