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Shirley Soloway
Shirley Soloway

Is That a Fact?

New York Times, Sunday, May 27, 1990

Author:
Shirley Soloway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 142, Blocks: 80, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 551 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 119, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 14, XRef: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 35.0
Shirley Soloway has 34 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,810
Across
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Suffix with gab or song : FEST
5
Beaver's structure : DAM
8
Strokes of fortune : CASTS
13
"Status stripe" designer : GUCCI
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Vilnius is its cap. : LITH
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At all : EVER
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Composition for eight : OCTET
22
"___ in the Dark," 1964 film : ASHOT
23
Tommie of Gil Hodges's Mets : AGEE
24
Celebration : FETE
25
Co-writer of "The Other Woman": 1983 : MEARA
26
Gibe : TAUNT
27
Start of a statesman's statement : THEREAREATERRIBLE
31
Early car : REO
32
Rivulets : STREAMS
33
Lettuce type : COS
34
Anchovy sauce : ALEC
36
Haw's companion : GEE
37
___ the press (brand new) : HOTOFF
41
City in SW Ga. : PELHAM
44
Felt one's way around : GROPED
48
Statement: Part II : LOTOFLIESGOING
50
More difficult to find : RARER
51
Strauss's "___ Italien" : AUS
52
Mutt and Jeff, e.g. : PALS
53
Land map : PLAT
54
African ruler : EMIR
55
C.P.A. : ACCT
57
Wrinkle : CRIMP
58
Bretons or Britons : CELTS
59
Statement: Part III : ABOUTTHE
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Shadow : TAIL
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"Diary of ___ Housewife" : AMAD
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Heavy weight : TON
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"Abbey ___," Beatles album : ROAD
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Ephthalite : HUN
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___ about (approximately) : ONOR
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Double this for a Chilean river : BIO
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Something to break : CAMP
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Tree house : NEST
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Statement: Part IV : WORLDAND
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Healing: Comb. form : IATRY
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Rousseau hero : EMILE
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Skin : PELT
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Differently : ELSE
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Juan's 2 Down : OCHO
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Mrs. Burt Reynolds : LONI
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___ Jose : SAN
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Solid rain : SLEET
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Statement: Part V : THEWORSTOFITIS
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Some are stuffed : SHIRTS
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Combining form for 10 Down : ASTERO
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Kind of band : ONEMAN
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Participate in a langlauf : SKI
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Circle segments : ARCS
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Adherent : IST
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With 15 Down, quoter of statesman's statement : WINSTON
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N.Y.P.D. order : APB
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End of statement : HALFOFTHEMARETRUE
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Capital of Baleares province, Spain : PALMA
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Arrowsmith's wife : LEORA
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Carry on : RANT
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Baptism, e.g. : RITE
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Ancient weapon : SPEAR
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"Luncheon on the Grass" artist : MANET
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Tokyo tipple : SAKE
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Legless creature : APOD
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Let up : EASED
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Tripura or Orissa : STATE
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Charlie's comic brother : SYD
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Go up against : DEFY
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Walking shoes : FLATS
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Shell crew : EIGHT
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Mosshorn, e.g. : STEER
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Soothing word : THERE
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Vilified : DEFAMED
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Disinclined : AVERSE
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Distribute : METE
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Regains consciousness : COMESTO
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Maple genus : ACER
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Nihal or Nunki : STAR
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Actress Copley : TERI
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Awkward try : STAB
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Furniture feature : GATELEG
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Springsteen's "Born in the ___" : USA
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See 96 Across : CHURCHILL
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Shape of a hogan : CONE
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"Leave ___ Beaver" : ITTO
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Extend oneself : REACHOUT
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"Half Magic" author : EAGER
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Horn emanations : TOOTS
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Toddlers' perches : LAPS
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Emulated Jessica : ELOPED
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Out ___ (no longer available) : OFPRINT
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Thrash or thresh : FLAIL
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Oliver Stone product : FILM
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Med. student's subject : ANAT
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Top-level business gps. : MGTS
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Super : GREAT
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Stallone role : RAMBO
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Mythical hunter : ORION
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Where Machu Picchu is : PERU
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Spiked the punch : LACED
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Language of Picasso : ESPANOL
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Niels Bohr's subject : ATOM
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Places of worship : CHAPELS
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Reason : CAUSE
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Rob Reiner's dad : CARL
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Server : TRAY
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"___ of Riley," former TV sitcom : THELIFE
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Humorist Sahl : MORT
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Hero of the 1936 Olympics : OWENS
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Cotton packer : BALER
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Atlas feature : INSET
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He wrote "Night Music" : ODETS
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Braggart : CROWER
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Curtain fabric : NINON
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Lunchmeat emporium : DELI
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Little bit : IOTA
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Bonn expletives : ACHS
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"You Turned ___ on Me," 1936 song : THETABLES
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Marquand's sleuth : MOTO
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Hopper and Turner : PAINTERS
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Hide the loot : STASH
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Glow : SHINE
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Doomed area in a Chekhov play : ORCHARD
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___ Bud, a Dickens heroine : ROSA
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Flatter, in a way : IMITATE
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Evaded : SKIRTED
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Elegant : SWANKY
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Fabulous fiddle : STRAD
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Potboiler's product : TRIPE
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"___ Africa." 1985 Oscar winner : OUTOF
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Penurious : NEEDY
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Cathedral section : APSE
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Haydn's nickname : PAPA
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Attorneys' degs. : LLMS
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Accomplishment : FEAT
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O'Neill's daughter : OONA
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Worry : FRET
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Author of "The Valachi Papers" : MAAS
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West of Hollywood : MAE

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7 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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