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Mary Virginia Orna
Mary Virginia Orna

New York Times, Wednesday, March 14, 1979

Author:
Mary Virginia Orna
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { F J V X }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 20.9
Mary Virginia Orna has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,718
Across
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After-shave powder : TALC
5
Latches : HASPS
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Recorded proceedings : ACTA
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Poet translated by FitzGerald : OMAR
15
Arm of the sea : INLET
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Rent : TORN
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Like a crazy hombre : LOCO
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Ringo the drummer : STARR
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Who or which : THAT
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Word with circle or parade : DRESS
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Cape of ___ : GOODHOPE
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Opposite of psyche : SOMA
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Grand ___, Evangeline's home : PRE
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Valley between ranges : LOWLAND
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Of the number eight : OCTAL
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Slots spot : RENO
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Old cars : REOS
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Maine campus town : ORONO
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Not on the same wavelength : ATCROSSPURPOSES
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Fungi : MOLDS
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Honshu monastery : TERA
44
Remitted : SENT
45
Bumbling : INEPT
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Upbraids : YELLSAT
48
Extensions on campus : UES
50
Raise : REAR
51
State in NW Brazil : AMAZONAS
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___ vin, chicken dish : COQAU
60
Singer Joan : BAEZ
61
Middle-ear bone : INCUS
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Charley had one : AUNT
65
Squiggle : CURL
66
Irish goblin : POOKA
67
Emulate an epicure : DINE
68
Dark-colored plum : SLOE
69
Response to a knock : ENTER
70
Blackpool and Baden-Baden : SPAS
Down
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"Twice-___ Tales" : TOLD
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Cupid, in art : AMOR
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Cluny product : LACE
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Farrar specialty : CROSSWORDPUZZLE
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"God shed ___ grace on thee" : HIS
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Member of a colony : ANT
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Worthless matter : SLAG
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But, in Barcelona : PERO
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Razor accessory : STROP
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Facing a crucial decision : ATTHECROSSROADS
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Silver salmon : COHO
12
It guards a green : TRAP
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Payment for a hand : ANTE
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Money in Lima : SOL
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Relative of a twerp : DROOP
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Father of Romulus and Remus : MARS
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"___ of robins in her hair" : ANEST
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Pretend : LETON
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"Mon ___," 1958 Tati film : ONCLE
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One of Doc's companions : DOPEY
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Kipling's "From Sea ___" : TOSEA
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Concerning : ANENT
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Mislaid : LOST
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Branches : RAMI
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Not so chancy : SURER
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Bone: Comb. form : OSTEO
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Abnormal respiratory sound : RALE
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Resinous substance : LAC
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Woodcock's relative : SNIPE
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"Sesame Street" subject : ABCS
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Heavy hammer : MAUL
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Prefix on an air letter : AERO
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Ever's partner : ANON
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Inverness inhabitant : SCOT
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Witticism : QUIP
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Tolstoy heroine : ANNA
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Shoshoneans : UTES
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Luau instrument, for short : UKE
63
Patriotic org. : SAR

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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