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Pollard
Pollard

New York Times, Wednesday, December 3, 1980

42-Across : Container for a fish canapé

Author:
Pollard
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 24.3 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Pollard has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,348
Across
1
Cordage fiber : JUTE
5
What brats do : ACTUP
10
Smear : DAUB
14
Monogram: Abbr. : INIT
15
Tableware : CHINA
16
Shiftless; slothful : IDLE
17
Wallace of TV : MIKE
18
Ships' launcher : HELEN
19
Ennead : NINE
20
Cooking direction : STIRWELL
22
Card game featuring sevens : FANTAN
24
One of a 15th-century trio : NINA
25
"Judith" composer : ARNE
26
Cooking plan : RECIPE
29
Oscar Wilde forte : EPIGRAMS
33
Weld : UNITE
34
"A billboard lovely as ___": Nash : ATREE
35
Pastry often filled with fruit : PIE
36
None, in Dogpatch : NARY
37
Pomologist's bane : APHID
38
Her fans protected her to a degree : RAND
39
And other things: Abbr. : ETC
40
Drive forward : IMPEL
41
Forcemeat : FARCE
42
Container for a fish canapé : SEASHELL
44
Less fresh : TRITER
45
Gnawing mammal : HARE
46
Cézanne or Gauguin : PAUL
47
Washday in Milano : LUNEDI
50
Sinker : DOUGHNUT
54
Acidity after gluttony : ACOR
55
Part of an indictment : COUNT
57
Freedom from the rat race : EASE
58
Pebble-in-pond sound : PLOP
59
Swiftly : APACE
60
"Hardly ___ is now alive ... ": Longfellow : AMAN
61
Actor Andrews : DANA
62
Consumers' amicus curiae : NADER
63
Adroit : DEFT
Down
1
Bowie and Backus : JIMS
2
Constituent of a whole : UNIT
3
"Kon-___," Heyerdahl book : TIKI
4
"The sea," according to Rimbaud : ETERNITY
5
Fruit of a buttercup : ACHENE
6
Lobster's claw : CHELA
7
Cash register : TILL
8
One, in Auvergne : UNE
9
Sautéed : PANFRIED
10
"A ___ lubricates business": Boswell : DINNER
11
Approach to a mine : ADIT
12
Bone from elbow to wrist : ULNA
13
"It might have ___" : BEEN
21
Dry the dishes : WIPE
23
Spirit in Notre Dame : ANGE
25
Showers time : APRIL
26
Finnish poems : RUNES
27
Growing outward : ENATE
28
About : CIRCA
29
Lucy's TV friend : ETHEL
30
Separated : APART
31
Filling for 35 Across : MINCE
32
Ritual feast : SEDER
34
Kind of turnover : APPLE
37
___ plan, including meals : AMERICAN
38
Military supply point : RAILHEAD
40
"___ a little pony" : IHAD
41
Dance of the 60's : FRUG
43
Everest guide : SHERPA
44
Less loose : TAUTER
46
City in Puerto Rico : PONCE
47
Columbo's hangout : LAPD
48
West Coast inst. : UCLA
49
Hour of sext : NOON
50
Pair : DUAD
51
Reputation : NAME
52
Dept. of Defense arm : USAF
53
Spot for a Mongol's meals : TENT
56
___-Locka, Fla. : OPA

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1 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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