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Johnson
Johnson

New York Times, Monday, November 19, 1984

41-Down : Recant

Author:
Johnson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { G J K Q V X }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 18.7
Johnson has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,795
Across
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Lip : SASS
5
Daring, to a fault : RASH
9
Word with land or sea : SCAPE
14
___ school : PREP
15
Ancient town near Salerno : ELEA
16
Jury : PANEL
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Volume : TOME
18
Brand : SEAR
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Everything included : INALL
20
Old Fuss and Feathers : WINFIELDSCOTT
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Brought about : DID
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100 yrs. : CEN
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Jitney : BUS
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Turns into : BECOMES
32
Stripling : LAD
35
Up and doing : ASTIR
37
"Unto us ___ is given" : ASON
38
Top-notch : AONE
39
Old Ironsides : THECONSTITUTION
42
In this place : HERE
43
Lift man : OTIS
44
Vikings : NORSE
45
Earlier than, to poets : ERE
46
Makes : CREATES
48
Shoe widths : EES
49
Houston or Adams : SAM
50
Knock : RAP
52
Old Rough and Ready : ZACHARYTAYLOR
59
Painter Matisse : HENRI
60
Things to lend : EARS
61
Geraint's wife : ENID
63
Satellite of Uranus : ARIEL
64
Wild plum : SLOE
65
Play part : ACTI
66
W. German boundary river : MOSEL
67
Spreads hay : TEDS
68
Recondite : DEEP
Down
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N.Y.C., e.g. : SPT
2
In single file : AROW
3
Half: Prefix : SEMI
4
Use time or money : SPEND
5
Live : RESIDE
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Antithesis of aweather : ALEE
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Gum down : SEAL
8
Difficult : HARD
9
Seasons : SPICES
10
Church law : CANON
11
Premed. course : ANAT
12
Bombard with stones : PELT
13
Wing : ELL
21
Pertaining to tissue: Comb. form : FIBRO
22
Perfume : SCENT
25
Use the tub : BATHE
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Groomsman : USHER
27
Cubic meter : STERE
29
Social division : CASTE
30
Ancient Rome's port : OSTIA
31
Between dry and wet : MOIST
32
Bay of Biscay feeder : LOIRE
33
Have ___ for news : ANOSE
34
English sandy places : DENES
36
"Rocks" : ICE
38
From ___ Z : ATO
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Southern constellation : NORMA
41
Recant : UNSAY
46
Electric-typewriter inventor : CAHILL
47
Removes : ERASES
49
Stony debris : SCREE
51
Implore : PLEAD
52
Cipher : ZERO
53
Flavoring for a Cannes cordial : ANIS
54
Musical sign : REST
55
Elihu ___, famed donor : YALE
56
Walked : TROD
57
Story opener : ONCE
58
Ceremonial act : RITE
59
Bad actor : HAM
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Pickpocket: Slang : DIP

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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