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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Friday, December 25, 1981

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 33.8
C. J. Angio has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,735
Across
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Food for hogs : MAST
5
Mount for Gaspar : CAMEL
10
Twinkler over Bethlehem : STAR
14
Turn over ___ leaf : ANEW
15
"___ Autumn": Keats : ODETO
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"A Christmas Carol" is one : TALE
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Famed children's magazine: 1873–1940 : STNICHOLAS
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Square column : ANTA
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Alden, John Smith et al. : SETTLERS
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Sawbuck : TENNER
23
Flag : TIRE
24
Spot : PLACE
25
Trig ratio : COSINE
28
Type of carriage : CLARENCE
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Praying female figure : ORANT
32
Wends one's weary way : PLODS
33
Dutch painter, pupil of Rembrandt : BOL
34
"___ out the old!" : RING
35
Devoutness : PIETY
36
Heavy hammer : MAUL
37
Canoodle : PET
38
Side dishes : SLAWS
39
Jeweler's lens : LOUPE
40
Lets up : SLACKENS
42
Beatty and his aides : CATMEN
43
Small Chinese coin : CHIAO
44
___ pot (deteriorate) : GOTO
45
Sky ___ (chaplains) : PILOTS
47
Abide : TOLERATE
51
Steeplejack's item : IBAR
52
Last words of Clement Moore's poem : AGOODNIGHT
54
Hawkshaw's aid : CLUE
55
Tie; bond : NOOSE
56
Pew : SEAT
57
Hardy's "Pure Woman" : TESS
58
One holding the bag : TOTER
59
Head: Fr. : TETE
Down
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Midnight ___ : MASS
2
Prefix with chapel : ANTE
3
Mailed : SENT
4
Teaser's delight : TWITTING
5
Stick : COHERE
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"O come let us ___ Him" : ADORE
7
Brooks and Tillis : MELS
8
Greek letter : ETA
9
Cather novel, with "A" : LOSTLADY
10
Golfer's concern : STANCE
11
Berliner's Christmas tree : TANNENBAUM
12
"Der ___" (Adenauer) : ALTE
13
Foster : REAR
18
Eastwood : CLINT
22
Lugs of jugs : EARS
24
What Christie wove : PLOTS
25
Peace ___ : CORPS
26
Mirador : ORIEL
27
North Pole resident : SANTACLAUS
28
Balls of yarn : CLEWS
29
Creamy dessert : COUPE
30
Burstyn : ELLEN
32
Grand follower : PIANO
35
Amiable : PLEASANT
36
One for the road : MOTORIST
38
Short comic piece : SKIT
39
Grow toward sunset : LATEN
41
Errands : CHORES
42
Fall forcast : COLDER
44
Yule pièce de résistance : GOOSE
45
He picked on the Britons : PICT
46
Suffix with access : IBLE
47
Cause of being lit up like a Christmas tree : TOOT
48
He wrote "Polly of Hollywood" : AGEE
49
"All ___ Jazz" : THAT
50
Diminutive ending : ETTE
53
Baby's word, in comics : GOO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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