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Timothy Hoy
Timothy Hoy

New York Times, Wednesday, July 1, 1981

51-Down : Hit the books

Author:
Timothy Hoy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Timothy Hoy has 7 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,558
Across
1
Push roughly : SHOVE
6
Engaged in : UPTO
10
Noted Canadian pioneer: 1783-1856 : ROSS
14
Driver's invitation : HOPIN
15
"___ Lake," Doctorow novel : LOON
16
A body on Canada's southern border : ERIE
17
Opt for : ELECT
18
___ Territories, Canada : NORTHWEST
20
Home of the Canadiens : MONTREAL
22
Asian region settled by ancient Greeks : AEOLIS
23
Louts : OAFS
24
Fox or Rabbit : BRER
25
Pollster Louis : HARRIS
28
Offspring : CHILDREN
32
Once more : AGAIN
33
Anarchy : CHAOS
34
Dir. from Toronto to Ottawa : ENE
35
Barrett or Jaffe : RONA
36
___ Piao, former Chinese Communist leader : LIN
37
Ski resort in Utah : ALTA
38
"___ tu," Verdi aria : ERI
39
Victimized by a deceitful salesman : STUNG
41
Eye with disdain : SNEER
42
Canadian province : MANITOBA
44
Buck or Roy : ROGERS
45
Two of these equal 200 yrs. : CENS
46
Trick : FOOL
47
Forest once reserved for British royalty : EPPING
50
Capital of 42 Across : WINNIPEG
54
Canada's third-largest city : VANCOUVER
56
Place for étudiants : ECOLE
57
Satanic : EVIL
58
Facility : EASE
59
Peep show : RAREE
60
First name for a Québécois : RENE
61
Concordes, e.g. : SSTS
62
Move stealthily : SNEAK
Down
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Noah's eldest son : SHEM
2
Prefix with graph or gram : HOLO
3
Accessible : OPEN
4
Capital of British Columbia : VICTORIA
5
Board a Pullman : ENTRAIN
6
Bones between elbows and wrists : ULNAS
7
Game for Nick Varner : POOL
8
Rock pile on a peak : TOR
9
Toronto is its capital : ONTARIO
10
State differently : REWORD
11
U.S.S.R. grain market : OREL
12
Mexican's double affirmative : SISI
13
Units for Borg : SETS
19
Where to wear spurs : HEELS
21
Failing grades : EFS
24
Hemp : BHANG
25
Moslem gynaeceum : HAREM
26
Marketplace : AGORA
27
Took a crook to be booked : RANIN
28
Audrey Meadows's birthplace : CHINA
29
Freeman book about a C.S.A. leader : RELEE
30
Script direction : ENTER
31
Approaches : NEARS
33
Cudgels : CLUBS
37
Canadian Episcopalian, e.g. : ANGLICAN
39
Transcriber, for short : STENO
40
French and English, e.g. : TONGUES
41
Tulsa natives : SOONERS
43
Common sight in the Yukon : ICICLE
44
Guidry or Nessen : RON
46
Dismisses : FIRES
47
Perpetually : EVER
48
Tar a road : PAVE
49
Nabokov novel : PNIN
50
Direction from Saskatchewan to Alberta : WEST
51
Hit the books : PORE
52
Italian birthplace of a school of philosophy : ELEA
53
Sideshow attraction : GEEK
55
Organic duct : VAS

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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