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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Friday, February 23, 1979

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 57.9
C. J. Angio has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,699
Across
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Sudden sally : RAID
5
What Sandburg called "a bucket of ashes" : PAST
9
Elvis ___ Presley : AARON
14
Wild water buffalo : ARNA
15
Mishmash : OLIO
16
Rubberneck : CRANE
17
Emulate Button Gwinnett : SIGN
18
What Frances F. Willard advocated : TEMPERANCE
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"Publish or ___" (caveat to profs) : PERISH
22
___ Alto : PALO
23
First name of "The Splendid Splinter" : TED
24
"The ___ the Mohicans" : LASTOF
26
Setting for a musical : SIAM
28
Tide register : THALASSOMETER
33
___ generis : SUI
35
Yield, as lands : CEDE
36
Golden Horde's region : TATARY
37
Seaweed cast ashore : WRACK
39
Depression : SAG
41
Tri plus one : TETRA
42
Type of horn : ANTLER
44
Anklebones : TALI
46
Acapulco acquisition : TAN
47
Fantastically falsified : PSEUDOLOGICAL
50
Ferber : EDNA
51
Degrades : ABASES
53
Chinese cooking vessel : WOK
56
Prepare copy for readers : EDIT
58
On cloud nine : ELATED
60
Whence preachers get plaudits : AMENCORNER
63
Pains, in a sense : CARE
64
Jack Nasty : SNEAK
65
Sprinkle on : DUST
66
Thomas ___ Edison : ALVA
67
A gallon has eight : PINTS
68
Postponement : STAY
69
Harold of comics : TEEN
Down
1
Rub roughly : RASP
2
Prospero's servant : ARIEL
3
Bring (oneself) into favor : INGRATIATE
4
Popular pastry : DANISH
5
Menace for a motorist : POTHOLE
6
Fermented drink : ALE
7
Birdbrain : SIMP
8
Come ___ (occur) : TOPASS
9
Esoteric : ACROAMATICAL
10
Parseghian : ARA
11
Speak irrationally : RANT
12
"___ in Love with Amy" : ONCE
13
Require : NEED
19
She wrote "Romola" : ELIOT
21
Secret weapons of riverboat gamblers : STACKEDDECKS
25
Certain ephemera : FADS
27
Homophone for meat : METE
29
"From ___ shining sea" : SEATO
30
Kindergarten stoolie : TATTLETALE
31
___ Pater (almanac) : ERRA
32
Nolan of the Angels : RYAN
33
Do some bartering : SWAP
34
Containers for flowers : URNS
38
Hint for Holmes : CLUE
40
Cuckoo : GAGA
43
Dance composition : RONDO
45
Henry's desire : LIBERTY
48
Scottish squires : LAIRDS
49
" ... as many Lives ___": Bunyan : ASACAT
52
Borg's initial blast : SERVE
53
Winged stinger : WASP
54
The ___ (Atlanta arena) : OMNI
55
Sharp : KEEN
57
Square bolt holder : TNUT
59
Actor in "Giant" : DEAN
61
A famous Turner : NAT
62
That, in Tegucigalpa : ESA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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