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Virginia L. Yates
Virginia L. Yates

New York Times, Monday, June 9, 1986

Author:
Virginia L. Yates
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 28.2
Virginia L. Yates has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,362
Across
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Part of a calyx : SEPAL
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What Wednesday's child is full of : WOE
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Newton or Stern : ISAAC
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"Phaedo" creator : PLATO
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Doctor's org. : AMA
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Perry Mason's secretary : DELLA
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Go-getters : LIVEWIRES
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Kind of ego : ALTER
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Real ending : IZE
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Dickens's Artful ___ : DODGER
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Cunning : FOXY
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Game fish : TARPON
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Cover-up name : ALIAS
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Cries of pain : OWS
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"Gulliver's Travels," e.g. : SATIRE
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Shrimp's relative : PRAWN
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Dynamo : GENERATOR
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Yorkshire river : AIRE
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Neil or Paul : SIMON
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Restrain : REIN
42
Motivator : SPARKPLUG
44
Old hat : STALE
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Tie : TETHER
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Sault ___ Marie : STE
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S-shaped moldings : OGEES
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Faux pas : ERRORS
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Comedienne Pitts : ZASU
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___ State (New York) : EMPIRE
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Yarn measure : LEA
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Mistreat : ABUSE
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Pitchers and catchers : BATTERIES
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Oscar winner: 1958 : NIVEN
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Before, poetically : ERE
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___ of one's trade : TOOLS
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Bread ingredient : YEAST
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Radiation unit : REM
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Actress Spacek : SISSY
Down
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Like some decisions : SPLIT
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A Doolittle : ELIZA
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One who prepares the way : PAVER
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Consumed : ATE
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Facts, with "the" : LOWDOWN
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Guardian's concern : WARD
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The end : OMEGA
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Atelier item : EASEL
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Mont. neighbor : IDA
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One with initiative : SELFSTARTER
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Kind of sax : ALTO
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Karras or Haley : ALEX
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British novelist Joyce ___ : CARY
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Charged atoms : IONS
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An anagram for siren : RISEN
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Fireballs : POWERHOUSES
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Rhine feeder : AAR
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Virginia willow : ITEA
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Stir up : ROIL
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Sea eagle : ERNE
33
Historian's concern : PAST
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Ready for plucking : RIPE
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Smell ___ (be suspicious) : ARAT
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Lesage's "___ Blas" : GIL
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Ostrich's cousin : EMU
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Egg attachment : NOG
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Wingding : SPREE
43
Cask : KEG
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Bond and Bourbon : STREETS
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Famed muralist : SERT
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Glowing cinder : EMBER
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Like some ribs or tires : SPARE
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Mixtures : OLIOS
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Staggers : REELS
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Impertinent : SASSY
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Absurd : ZANY
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He had an Irish Rose : ABIE
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Fiji's capital : SUVA
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Component : ITEM
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Tolkien character : ENT
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Louis XIV, for one : ROI

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1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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