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William Canine
William Canine

New York Times, Monday, October 8, 1984

Author:
William Canine
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 296 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 31.6
William Canine has 65 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,753
Across
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Runs away : SCATS
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Pianist Templeton : ALEC
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Primates : APES
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Free, in France : LIBRE
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Platter : DISH
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Capital of Switzerland : BERN
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Another time : AGAIN
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High: Prefix : ALTI
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Tune for Turandot : ARIA
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Proscriptions : TABOOS
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Water sport : YACHTING
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A fixed point in time : ERA
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Puerto ___ : RICO
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Dashes : HIES
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Petroleum derivative : PARAFFIN
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Hackney : CAB
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Life story, for short : BIO
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East, in España : ESTE
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Vacuum tube : DIODE
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Spring-flowering woodland herb : JACKINTHEPULPIT
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Linger at the mirror : PREEN
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Start of Stilwell Road in India : LEDO
43
Permit : LET
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Not sweet, as wine : SEC
45
Thwarts : PREVENTS
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Casanova, for one : ROUE
50
Too cute : ARCH
51
Blvds. : STS
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Spooky : SPECTRAL
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Amorous : EROTIC
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Use a calorifier : HEAT
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Actress Raines : ELLA
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Soprano Lucine : AMARA
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"Woe ___!" : ISME
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Birds, to zoologists : AVES
65
More resentful : SORER
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Job : POST
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"The Forty ___ of Musa Dagh" : DAYS
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Carrousel figure : HORSE
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Party lineup : SLATE
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Cheroot : CIGAR
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Addis ___ : ABABA
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Peter, Paul and Mary : TRIO
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Lady of Cádiz : SENORA
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Nabokov title : ADA
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Herb having bell-shaped white flowers : LILYOFTHEVALLEY
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C'___-dire : ESTA
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Elegant : CHICHI
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Let up : ABATE
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Viewer on the Nautilus : PERISCOPE
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St. Patrick's isle : ERIN
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Obstacle : SNAG
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Lorelei : SIREN
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Sudra, e.g. : HINDU
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Chess piece : CASTLE
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Jab : POKE
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Tributary : FEEDER
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Passage for a miner : ADIT
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Wager : BET
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Empty : BARE
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Certain frozen foods : ICECREAMS
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Misfortunes : ILLS
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Marryin' types : JPS
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Computer's need : INPUT
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___ de León : PONCE
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Go over a page again : REREAD
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Whale : THRASH
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Ennead minus one : OCTET
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Former Packer hero : STARR
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These might need air : TIRES
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Frighten : SCARE
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Lollipop, e.g. : SHIP
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A coin in Colombia : PESO
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Edison's middle name : ALVA
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Melville book : OMOO
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Addlepate : ASS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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