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Elio Desiderio
Elio Desiderio

New York Times, Tuesday, April 19, 1983

53-Across : Satan

Author:
Elio Desiderio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 251 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 40.3
Elio Desiderio has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,215
Across
1
Flat hats : TAMS
5
Dizzy's sibling : DAFFY
10
Heredity factor : GENE
14
He was, to Cato : ERAT
15
Michener's de Becque : EMILE
16
Date to beware : IDES
17
Track bettor's consideration : SIRE
18
Shinbone : TIBIA
19
Split : RIVE
20
Noxious; poisonous : TAINTED
22
One's earthly goods : ESTATE
24
Protection : EGIS
25
Gilmore of the N.B.A. : ARTIS
26
Took umbrage : RESENTED
29
Fogies : DODOS
33
Advice to a physician, with "thyself" : HEAL
34
What NOW wants now : ERA
35
Relish-tray item : CELERY
36
Assam silkworm : ERI
37
Movements of aspen leaves, e.g. : TREMORS
39
Heflin or Johnson : VAN
40
Colors slightly : TINGES
42
High dudgeon : IRE
43
Farm storage building : SILO
44
Wyoming range : TETON
45
Trod on : TRAMPLED
47
"Make a joyful ___ ... " : NOISE
50
British sailors : TARS
51
___-well : NEERDO
53
Satan : LUCIFER
56
Singer Vikki : CARR
57
Clear sky : ETHER
59
Singer Tennille : TONI
60
Word form with bus or potent : OMNI
61
Make up for : ATONE
62
Long time : EONS
63
Concern of the Dept. of the Int. : GEOL
64
Windblown soil : LOESS
65
It's W of Minn. : SDAK
Down
1
Assayer's activity : TEST
2
Song for Amara : ARIA
3
Eva ___ from Newark : MARIESAINT
4
Mets' first manager : STENGEL
5
Those who loathe : DETESTERS
6
Surrounded by : AMID
7
Little lie : FIB
8
Eagle or wren : FLIER
9
Leavening agent : YEAST
10
Fire opal : GIRASOL
11
Redact : EDIT
12
Snow field : NEVE
13
Suffix with Siam : ESE
21
Lizzie's antecedent : TIN
23
Flood and spring : TIDES
25
Naked cultist : ADAMITE
26
Butler in a best seller : RHETT
27
Scary : EERIE
28
Before, to bards : ERE
30
Kind of chocolate cake : DEVILSFOOD
31
Cape for John Paul II : ORALE
32
Church council : SYNOD
35
"All ___ Great and Small" : CREATURES
37
Domingo, e.g. : TENOR
38
Hockey's Bobby : ORR
41
Albany's evil wife : GONERIL
43
Elves : SPRITES
46
Singer-composer Davis : MAC
48
"My ___," 1930 song : IDEAL
49
___ voce : SOTTO
51
Appoint : NAME
52
___ Rubik (cube inventor) : ERNO
53
Contact ___ : LENS
54
Sicilian resort : ENNA
55
Dare : RISK
56
Gear tooth : COG
58
Tool in a Markham poem : HOE

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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