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Johnson
Johnson

New York Times, Monday, February 13, 1978

11-Down : Arabian V.I.P.

Author:
Johnson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { B J Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 29.0 Grid has duplicate clues.
Johnson has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,411
Across
1
Marriage license inscription : DATE
5
Be zetetic : SEEK
9
Begged : PLED
13
Handy abbr. : ETAL
14
Flying: Prefix : AERO
15
Kind of law : ROMAN
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Kind of marriage : COMMONLAW
19
Cake topper : ICING
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French wines, e.g. : IMPORTS
21
Teachers' concerns : TENURES
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Sgt. or cpl. : NCO
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What sulkers are out of : SORTS
25
She wrote "The Bell Jar" : PLATH
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Kind of law : UNWRITTEN
32
Part of a freeway : LANE
33
Ziegfeld : FLO
34
Shoe part : INSOLE
35
Slamang or wou-wou : APE
36
Author of "The Hospital" : FEARING
38
Hawkshaw : TEC
39
Throat part : TONSIL
41
Gerund ending : ING
42
Discharge : SACK
43
Phrase with law or lay : OFTHELAND
45
Hibernians : CELTS
46
Tag ___ (follow the leader) : ALONG
47
Helios, to Hadrian : SOL
48
Customer of 48 Down : STANDEE
51
Flies or thrips : INSECTS
55
Khyber Pass is one : ROUTE
56
The Pentateuch : MOSAICLAW
58
Peripheral : OUTER
59
Composer Stravinsky : IGOR
60
Fictional plantation : TARA
61
Craggy hills : TORS
62
Pine product : CONE
63
What X marks : SPOT
Down
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Tenth part: Prefix : DECI
2
Particle for Bohr : ATOM
3
Drive down : TAMP
4
L.A. suburb : ELMONTE
5
Ron of baseball : SANTO
6
Aquarium sight : EELS
7
Caesarean or Actian : ERA
8
Fawn : KOWTOW
9
One of Franklin's fortes : PRINTING
10
Egypt's eighth plague : LOCUSTS
11
Arabian V.I.P. : EMIR
12
Great ___ : DANE
16
"Thumbs down" letters : NGS
18
Mus. group : ORCH
22
Astray : ERRING
24
Involuntary nocturnal activity : SNORING
25
Author of "Charmides" : PLATO
26
In the ___ luxury : LAPOF
27
Concerning : ANENT
28
Diminutive suffix : ULA
29
Whole : TOTAL
30
Mayor- or Governor-___ : ELECT
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Great and Little : NECKS
33
Rim of a wheel : FELLOE
36
Fly catchers, at times : FIELDERS
37
Neighbor of Ill. : IND
40
"Tam o'___," Burns hero : SHANTER
42
Chooses : SELECTS
44
Needing iron : ANEMIC
45
Start of a Mozart title : COSI
47
Delusion's partner : SNARE
48
Kind of show : SRO
49
Purveyor of a "sure thing" : TOUT
50
Word with bus or truck : AUTO
51
"The Bird ___ the Wing" : ISON
52
Loud noise : CLAP
53
South Sea Islands staple : TARO
54
Ruthian clout : SWAT
57
Relative of Explorer : OGO

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

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