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A. J. Santora
A. J. Santora

New York Times, Wednesday, March 7, 1979

Author:
A. J. Santora
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 25.7
A. J. Santora has 185 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 68 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,711
Across
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Leghorn's largesse : EGGS
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Deep cut : GASH
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Kind of toast : MELBA
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Air route : LANE
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Oils of old Rome : OLEA
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Slightly ahead, in a golf game : ONEUP
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How yo-yos go : UPANDDOWN
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Ulan ___ : BATOR
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Disappointment : LETDOWN
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Actress Joanne : DRU
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Número ___ : UNO
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"Nasty" Nastase : ILIE
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Attack : SETUPON
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Kite : ELANET
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Make sense : ADDUP
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Ice-bucket gear : TONGS
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Lump of clay : CLOD
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Cordage plant : HEMP
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Word with hop or tree : TOAD
38
Ostentatious : SHOWY
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Melville novel : OMOO
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Capable of : UPTO
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Owner of "Leapin' Lena" : TEEN
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Upper class : ELITE
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Carouser's sounds : WHEES
45
Network : SYSTEM
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Softer, as pillows : DOWNIER
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Up and ___ (working) : ATIT
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Barnyard animal : EWE
51
Prefix with judge or trial : PRE
52
Gets ready to give a concert : TUNESUP
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Words on a shop sign : ANDUP
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Denigrate : DOWNGRADE
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Actress Rainer : LUISE
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"___ a Villa ... ": Browning : UPAT
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Kazan : ELIA
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___ up (accelerate) : SPEED
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Norms : PARS
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___ up (prepare to play pool) : RACK
Down
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Hebrew month : ELUL
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Yawn : GAPE
3
Mosquito's relative : GNAT
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Expelling, Oxford style : SENDINGDOWN
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Wading bird : GODWIT
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Unaccompanied : ALONE
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___ up (clinch) : SEW
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Easily : HANDSDOWN
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___ Sese Seko of Zaire : MOBUTU
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Last queen before Sofia : ENA
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Slackening : LETUP
12
Actor Victor : BUONO
13
Kitchen garment : APRON
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Metes or parcels : DOLES
22
"I Am Woman" singer : REDDY
26
He pads parlor pieces : UPHOLSTERER
27
Words said to Brutus : ETTU
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Part of a bowknot : LOOP
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Med. school subj. : ANAT
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Eaglewood : ALOES
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Inspirited : CHEEREDUP
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Anagram for item, mite and time : EMIT
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Speck : MOTE
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Christina Rossetti's "Up-Hill," e.g. : POEM
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Guide : STEER
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Looking up and down : EYING
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Obsessed, with "on" : HIPPED
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Tricks on trapezes : STUNTS
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Transactions : DEALS
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Confess : OWNUP
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" ... for tomorrow ___" : WEDIE
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Fighting, as nations : ATWAR
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Hacienda room : SALA
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Caucasic tongue : UDIC
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Promontory : PEAK
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___ up (exhaust) : USE
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W.W. II agency : OPA

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

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