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Copps
Copps

New York Times, Thursday, November 15, 1979

Author:
Copps
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F J P Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 12, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 17.2 Grid has duplicate clues.
Copps has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,964
Across
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Sicilian scorcher : ETNA
5
English dramatist: 1814–84 : READE
10
Park of the Bruins : BRAD
14
Aphrodite's boy : EROS
15
Clothe : ENDUE
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___ Stevens (Barbara Stanwyck) : RUBY
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"The Adventure of the ___" : REDHEADEDLEAGUE
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Structure strengthening a ship : KEELSON
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Ravens' havens : NESTS
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Do lawn work : MOW
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Beachwear : BRAS
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Aide to 45 Across : WATSON
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Skelton role : CLEM
30
Play section : ACT
33
Kind of phobia : ACRO
34
Great cathedral in Florence : DUOMO
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"Blue Eagle" measure : NRA
36
"The Adventure of ___" : THEBERYLCORONET
40
Foulard : TIE
41
Symbols of hardness : NAILS
42
"___ Camera" : IAMA
43
Puget or Hobe: Abbr. : SND
44
Wee : TINY
45
Doyle's hawkshaw : HOLMES
47
Phone : RING
48
Word with port or barn : CAR
49
Follower of Zeno : STOIC
52
Adjective for Chicago's Sears Tower : TALLEST
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"The Adventure of ___" : THEVEILEDLODGER
60
Pavarotti forte : ARIA
61
Sovereign; lord : LIEGE
62
"___ boy!" : ITSA
63
China-shop nemesis : BULL
64
British tar : LIMEY
65
Being : ESSE
Down
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Poetic contraction : EER
2
"Star ___" : TREK
3
Entanglement : NODE
4
Tennis great : ASHE
5
Paine's "The Age of ___" : REASON
6
Furnish, as income : ENDOW
7
Mideast gulf : ADEN
8
Lemon : DUD
9
Lamprey's relative : EEL
10
"Sweet Afton" hillsides : BRAES
11
Afghan exports : RUGS
12
Touch at one end : ABUT
13
Recolors : DYES
18
Sailors' saint : ELMO
19
Inflame with love : ENAMOR
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Influential alliances : BLOCS
24
San ___, Italian resort : REMO
25
Noted hymnist : WATTS
26
"Body all ___ an' ... " : ACHIN
27
Cornered : TREED
28
Kind of sister or story : SOB
29
Cheat; deceive : CULLY
30
Part of Vietnam : ANNAM
31
Coffee enhancer, in Paris : CREME
32
British farewells : TATAS
34
"I am ___, Egypt ... ": Shak. : DYING
37
Do Satan's work : ENTICE
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It's sent by Jupiter Pluvius : RAIN
39
Troubled water's smoother : OIL
45
Comet man : HALLEY
46
Base of a column : ORLO
47
Competitor : RIVAL
48
Sponge : CADGE
49
Casual attempt : STAB
50
New York way : THRU
51
Eye: Fr. : OEIL
52
Swarm : TEEM
53
Ernie's widow : EDIE
54
Noncoms : SGTS
55
A D'Urberville lass : TESS
57
Ailing : ILL
58
Cicero's 52 : LII
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Charlotte ___, TV actress : RAE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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