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Katherine Gould
Katherine Gould
Chris Remignanti
Chris Remignanti

High Jinks

New York Times, Sunday, November 21, 1982

Author:
Katherine Gould & Chris Remignanti
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 94, Avg Word Len: 4.96, Missing: { J Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 504 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 99, Cheaters: 20, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9, Grid flow: 20.5
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,066
Across
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Half dollar? : LAR
4
March 15 fish? : IDES
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Letters for letter carriers : RFD
11
Hardy lass : TESS
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Word before fours : PLUS
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Z-z-z : SNORE
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"___ de Lune": Debussy : CLAIR
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Fence good for a laugh : HAHA
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Tummy tightener : SASH
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Festoon : ADORN
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Beds for Leo and Elsa : LAIRS
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Fingal's land : ERIN
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Stanley's car : STEAMER
27
Somniferous fly : TSETSE
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1,000-days queen : ANNE
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Maguey's kin : ALOE
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Greeting of a sort : HIHO
32
Deadlock : IMPASSE
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Read between the lines : THEREADLINES
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Actor J. Carrol ___ : NAISH
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Beaverish : EAGER
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Fancy this : IDEA
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Naples, to Mario : NAPOLI
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This fits with fits : STARTS
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Having I problems : SELFISH
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" ... ditties of ___": Keats : NOTONE
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A star-ry Knight : TED
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These have their bounds : LEAPS
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Union collectors' items : DUES
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Scent for Di : ODOUR
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Houston "aspirin" server : RYAN
60
Brahmins' bash : SOIREE
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Lesser civet : RASSE
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Reb's govt. : CSA
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Backwards and forwards : SDRAWROFDNA
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Her mate is ruff : REE
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Belle hops : BALLS
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Banquet : REPAST
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Father Time sound : TICK
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Teed off : IRATE
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Bills often passed : ONES
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Grand follower : PIANO
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It's "in one era and ... " : FAD
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Some human races : DASHES
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Expires like Nathan's kin? : EXHALES
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A little, in León : UNPOCO
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Papers read on campus : THESES
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Anagram for lire : RIEL
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Famed tale-teller : GRIMM
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High costs of leaving : FARES
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Run-on sentence : SENTENCEEEEE
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Rampart where el toro ambles? : BULWARK
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Shot on the set : TAKE
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Outspoken Rev. Roberts? : ORAL
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Monkey not in the Louvre : MONA
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Posers : MODELS
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Strive to equal : EMULATE
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Draft at a bar : SWIG
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Stirring game? : POKER
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Cradle rockers : MAMAS
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Have a fling : TOSS
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Colorful duck : TEAL
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Tear-jerker : ONION
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"___ with Me" : ABIDE
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Riley's life : EASE
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Chichi : ARTY
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Salt's course : ESE
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Phooey! : NUTS
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Aurora's tears? : DEW
Down
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Disco disks : LPS
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Shelley's "Shucks!" : ALAS
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Oxidation's evidence : RUST
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Undeniably : INDEED
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What to show intruders : DOOR
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Exhibit humanity : ERR
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Figure on the watch : SENTINEL
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This is in rain, not sun : RAISIN
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"Let us spray" fellow : FIREMAN
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No and J : DRS
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A shot in the dark : THEASHOTDARK
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Makes dough : EARNS
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Rise's follower : SHINE
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Playing with a full deck : SANE
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Clip-joint actress? : SHEARER
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Not a Lesser Island : SAMOA
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Queenly monickers : CLEOS
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Counterpart of long. : LAT
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In nimble fashion : ALERTLY
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Hood's quiverful : SHEAF
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Stashes in caches : HIDES
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Yaws (truly!) : PIAN
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___ as a church mouse : ASPOOR
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Something to pass : TEST
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Broun's "Pieces of ___" : HATE
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Edwardian euphemism : EGAD
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Talk like Fudd : LISP
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Gooselike? : LOOSE
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Operating : INUSE
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Briny septet : SEAS
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Kind of card : IDIOT
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Swell coming ashore : SURF
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Lend an auricle : HEED
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Prior, to Prior : ERE
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Man: Comb. form : ANDRO
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Wagnerian heroine : SENTA
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Rally round the flag : RALTHEFLAGLY
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Type of buckle : SWASH
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Some connections : ORS
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Weight for Diamond Lil : CARAT
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Cut prices : SLASH
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Descartes : RENE
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Zenith : APEX
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Indigenous Japanese : AINU
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Auction action : BID
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Place for two : SEESAW
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Jell : CONGEAL
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Cal of the P.G.A. : PEETE
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Key's little cousin : ISLE
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Pâté de ___ gras : FOIE
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Peak : ACME
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Capitol topper : DOME
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Loren's evening : SERA
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Of a region : AREAL
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Golfer in chains? : LINKSMAN
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Bishop : PRELATE
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Homilies : SERMONS
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Chicago suburb : SKOKIE
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Relentless virtuoso? : STERN
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Their lives are in tents : NOMADS
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Vessel on a vessel? : CRUSE
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This may have boughs : BOWER
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Eastern Christian : UNIAT
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U.S.S.R. river : MSTA
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___ volente : DEO
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Give off : EMIT
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Hopper : TOAD
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Being : ESSE
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Writer, partly poetic : POE
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Syrian sire : ABU
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"As you ___, so shall you rip" : SEW

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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