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Gayle Dean
Gayle Dean

New York Times, Friday, November 22, 1985

Author:
Gayle Dean
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.72, Missing: { J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 52, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 23.7 Grid has duplicate clues.
Gayle Dean has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 5 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,163
Across
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Small talk : CHAT
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S.A. capital : LIMA
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Start of a quotation from Santayana : ITIS
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Opulent : RICH
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Adored one : IDOL
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Pried : NOSED
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Quotation: Part II : AGREATADVANTAGE
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Wagon part : WHEEL
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Dine : EAT
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Edict : LAW
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Collections of anecdotes : ANAS
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By mouth : ORALLY
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Quotation: Part III : FORASYSTEMOF
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Guinness : ALEC
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Hades river : STYX
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___ and crafts : ARTS
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Pedagogue : TEACHER
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Of a chamber : CAMERAL
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Precinct : AREA
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Bonne ___, Nice sweetheart : AMIE
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Lone : SOLE
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Quotation: Part IV : PHILOSOPHYTO
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Small-sized fowl : BANTAM
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Descartes : RENE
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A Gardner : AVA
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Butter measure : PAT
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Swathed, as a judge : ROBED
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Quotation: Part V : BESUBSTANTIALLY
68
Obliterate : ERASE
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End of quotation : TRUE
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Artifice : RUSE
71
Luge or monoski : SLED
72
Nick Charles's dog : ASTA
73
Item in a pit : SEED
Down
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Bird's crop : CRAW
2
Atop Everest : HIGH
3
Farm measure : ACRE
4
Quaker's pronoun : THEE
5
Illuminated : LIT
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Gem St. : IDA
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Decorum : MODESTY
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Menlo Park name : ALVA
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Resting place : INN
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Little one : TOT
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"The readiness ___": Hamlet : ISALL
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He wrote "The Class" : SEGAL
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Like morning grass : DEWY
18
Sad cry : ALAS
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Fermi interest : ATOM
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Wall St. letters : NYSE
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Starry : ASTRAL
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Spatiate : ROAM
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Once more : AFRESH
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Adipose : FAT
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Olive genus : OLEA
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Back : REAR
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Take in : ACCEPT
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Type of tax : EXCISE
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Ilium : TROY
38
Sodium chloride : SALT
40
Laugh or fence : HAHA
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Time period : AEON
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Tolstoy : LEO
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Plasters together : MORTARS
49
Little devils : IMPS
50
Persian fairy : PERI
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Bunyan's ox : BABE
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Asseverates : AVERS
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Twangy : NASAL
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"___ boy!" : ATTA
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Gig rig : OARS
60
Color of 51 Down : BLUE
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Other : ELSE
62
Tinted : DYED
64
Employ : USE
65
Resting place : BED
66
Crackpot : NUT
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Oolong, e.g. : TEA

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

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