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Nancy W. Atkinson
Nancy W. Atkinson

New York Times, Tuesday, April 30, 1991

Author:
Nancy W. Atkinson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 9.6
Nancy W. Atkinson has 16 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,148
Across
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Grad.-school degree : MBA
4
Amtrak abbrs. : ARRS
8
Marked an exam : GRADED
14
Provident finisher : IAL
15
Slip into : WEAR
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___ uno : NUMERO
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Most off the wall : CRAZIEST
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Hardy or Twist : OLIVER
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He leads a host on the links : ARNOLDPALMER
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Oratorio offerings : SOLI
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Ref. book : OED
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Fitting : APT
27
Laird's "Wow!" : OCH
29
Lanchester and Maxwell : ELSAS
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Deep or high preceder : KNEE
33
The past tense : PRETERIT
36
Sub detector : SONAR
37
An atlas insert : TIPIN
38
"Polly, ___ the kettle on" : PUT
40
Watered silk : MOIRE
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Like Goofy : INANE
42
Supers' openers : PASSKEYS
44
Grimm character : OGRE
45
Believed without question : ATEUP
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Explorer Johnson : OSA
48
Beatty of "Network" : NED
49
"___ live and breathe!" : ASI
50
Saturn attachment : ALIA
53
Leslie Howard in "G.W.T.W." : ASHLEYWILKES
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Ad hoc : HERETO
61
Lute's cousin : MANDOLIN
62
Shylock was one : USURER
63
TV's talking horse : MRED
64
"___ tu," Verdi aria : ERI
65
Soil : BEMIRE
66
Gump or Gibb : ANDY
67
Right on! : YEP
Down
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Layered mineral : MICA
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TV's Roseanne : BARR
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First U.S. spaceman : ALANSHEPARD
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"Where there's ___ ... " : AWILL
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More like Twiggy : REEDIER
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Carpenter's file : RASP
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Sp. lass : SRTA
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Dwarflike beings : GNOMES
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Held sway : RULED
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A prince of Qatar : AMIR
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Part of R & D : DEV
12
Homophone for heir : ERE
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Buzzing insect : DOR
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Bronx attraction : ZOO
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Mauna ___ : LOA
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"Wild West Show" star : ANNIEOAKLEY
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Family of an Arctic explorer : PEARYS
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Wright or Brewer : TERESA
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Druthers : OPTION
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Quail : CRINGE
30
Kind of service : LIP
31
Compress cloth : STUPE
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Oddball : KOOK
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Part of a fork : TINE
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Cork-to-Kilkenny dir. : ENE
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Orders for p.j.'s : SMS
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Cross design : TAU
43
Brought forth : SPAWNED
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Off the ocean : ASHORE
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Sesame : TIL
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Daisylike flower : ASTER
51
Watergate figure : LIDDY
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U.N. arm : ILO
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Air: Comb. form : AERI
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Educator Willard : EMMA
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What a salt spins : YARN
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Land of Shannon : EIRE
57
Impudent one : SNIP
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Boston, with "the" : HUB
59
Vietnam follower : ESE
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Piña colada base : RUM

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

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