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Charles Engler
Charles Engler

New York Times, Tuesday, March 3, 1981

20-Across : What 1980 was in Chinatown

Author:
Charles Engler
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 296 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 38.1
Charles Engler has 13 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,438
Across
1
June 6, 1944 : DDAY
5
Encore : BIS
8
___ Iowa, Mississippi feeder : UPPER
13
Hawser : ROPE
14
Time spans : ERAS
16
Nerve: Comb. form : NEURO
17
"Celeste Aïda," e.g. : ARIA
18
Shoemaker's form : LAST
19
Farm workers : HANDS
20
What 1980 was in Chinatown : YEAROFTHEMONKEY
23
Italian cash : LIRE
24
Huascarán is its highest peak : PERU
25
The Elder or the Younger : PLINY
27
Fylfot : SWASTIKA
31
Tin Lizzie starter : CRANK
32
Backbone : CHINE
33
Hack : CAB
34
Sharp pain : PANG
35
Chanticleer's domain : ROOST
36
Erudition : LORE
37
Burlesque's Corio : ANN
38
Salted, as a noix : SALEE
39
Punitive : PENAL
40
Aviator : SKYRIDER
42
Take it easy : COAST
43
Former A.F.B. on Cape Cod : OTIS
44
Fastener : HASP
45
Old Ebbets Field cry : WAITTILNEXTYEAR
52
Happify : ELATE
53
Close relative : AUNT
54
Sailors' patron saint : ELMO
55
Kitchen device : TIMER
56
Skid-row sight : WINO
57
Similar : AKIN
58
Fallers on Alabama in a Mitchell Parish song : STARS
59
Thrash : TAN
60
Gats : RODS
Down
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Wagon without sides : DRAY
2
Noted French illustrator: 1833–83 : DORE
3
Samoan port : APIA
4
"The ___," Rawlings novel : YEARLING
5
A pealing place : BELFRY
6
Wroth : IRATE
7
Cummerbund : SASH
8
Dislodge from a saddle : UNHORSE
9
Goober : PEANUT
10
Touchwood : PUNK
11
Soil, in Essen : ERDE
12
Blushing : ROSY
15
Gradual : STEPWISE
21
Sow sound : OINK
22
Intended : MEANT
25
Antic : PRANK
26
Tenor Ross of radio fame : LANNY
27
Smith : SHOER
28
Religious images : ICONS
29
Jeweler's measure of fineness : KARAT
30
First shepherd : ABEL
31
Some math experts : CPAS
32
Fish-fry dish, usually : COLESLAW
35
Spokes : RADII
36
Quadrennial occurrence : LEAPYEAR
38
They stay while parents play : SITTERS
39
Station : POST
41
Scoundrel : ROTTER
42
First English printer : CAXTON
44
Hair dye : HENNA
45
Volstead's opponents : WETS
46
Lodged : ALIT
47
"___ Liberal": Matthew Arnold : IAMA
48
Night, in Nancy : NUIT
49
City on the Humboldt : ELKO
50
During : AMID
51
Ex-Mets Hunt and Swoboda : RONS

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

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