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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Monday, January 1, 1979

51-Across : What a madcap obeys

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 41.1
C. J. Angio has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,646
Across
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Mosque prayer leader : IMAM
5
Times Square gathering : MOB
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Wassail : REVEL
13
One of five at St. Peter's : NAVE
14
Medical suffix : OSIS
16
Loch ___, in western Scotland : ETIVE
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Glacier in Alaska : MUIR
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Hayworth : RITA
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Borge and Melchior : DANES
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Common run : AVERAGE
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Showy speakers : RHETORS
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Time for resolutions : NEWYEARSDAY
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Jan. 1, 1979 : MON
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Start of a new Yule tree : PINECONE
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Dirty ___ (gull-like bird) : ALLAN
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Lineup in a London supermarket : TINS
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Shape of Pasadena's stadium : OVAL
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The New ___, in the 50's : LOOK
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Magi number : THREE
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"Nine ___ big fat hen" : TENA
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She, in Gay Paree : ELLE
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Votes in favor : YEAS
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Winning coach: 1970 Super Bowl : STRAM
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Goodman's music maker : CLARINET
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U.S.–Ont. canals : SOO
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LXXIX : SEVENTYNINE
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What a madcap obeys : IMPULSE
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Teen-age tars : SEABOYS
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Papal crown : TIARA
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Landlord, in Livorno : OSTE
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Blow ___ horn (brag) : ONES
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Array on one side : ALIGN
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Newcomer in "The Red Pony" : FOAL
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Fine, in Anglo-Saxon law : WITE
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Did a docker's job : LADED
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What quidnuncs do : PRY
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Maid for Burns : LASS
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He painted Hawthorne, Wordsworth et al. : INMAN
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Lilac color : MAUVE
3
Start of a Miller title : AVIEW
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Celebrant : MERRYMAKER
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Helen who sat on pianos : MORGAN
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Incan bridge material : OSIER
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Snaffle : BIT
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Cause of many a hangover : REDEYE
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State: Fr. : ETAT
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Calabria celebrant's quaff : VINO
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Year after year after year : EVER
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Not so much : LESS
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Variety of hide-and-go-seek : SARDINES
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Era after era after era : AEON
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Medieval merchants' guild : HANSE
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Voiceless, in phonetics : SPIRATE
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Site of an annual game in Dallas : COTTONBOWL
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Turn ___ a new leaf : OVER
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Nurse for a future Etonian : NANA
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Babylonia's ancient rival : ELAM
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One of the Waughs : ALEC
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Relax lazily : LOLL
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Spoiled girl in a song : LOLA
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"___ St Agnes": Keats : THEEVEOF
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Margaret ___, soprano who joined the Met in 1974 : TYNES
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Oriental legume : SOYA
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Christmas is one : ISLAND
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Hard, firm or cold : STEELY
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Heavenly body of the very red type : NSTAR
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Ancient district in Asia Minor : IONIA
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Red refusals : NYETS
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Winding roads : ESSES
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Type of type: Abbr. : ITAL
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"___ 18," Uris novel : MILA
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Receipt stamp : PAID
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Prompt : URGE
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Pacifier : SOP

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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