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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Thursday, May 21, 1981

28-Down : The Fourth Estate

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
C. J. Angio has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,517
Across
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___ Spee : GRAF
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Nobleman : LORD
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Bar at the bar : ESTOP
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___ and void : NULL
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Foe of a Seneca : ERIE
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Barrel part : STAVE
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Largest continent : ASIA
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Drop the QB : SACK
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Circus performer : TAMER
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Start of a diner's question to a B'way waiter : WHATISTHEREPORT
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Loose or loosen : FREE
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Slithery one : EEL
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Dress designer for Garbo et al. : ADRIAN
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Like Evangeline's forest : PRIMEVAL
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Barbecue : ROAST
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Designer of St. Paul's Cathedral : WREN
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Harem room : ODA
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Completion of 20 Across : ONTHECHEFSSALAD
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Chemical suffix : ANE
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Relative of a boo : HISS
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Delight for Narcissus : IMAGE
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Burgoyne's men : REDCOATS
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Springes : SNARES
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"Exodus" hero : ARI
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Sedimentary stuff : LEES
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Waiter's reply to the diner : MIXEDREVIEWSSIR
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Tubby : OBESE
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Swerve : VEER
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Tittle : IOTA
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Coin of Iraq : DINAR
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Photographer Morath : INGE
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Creator of the Democratic donkey : NAST
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Kitchen emanations : ODORS
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Berliner's song : LIED
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Mardi ___ : GRAS
Down
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What beavers and marmots do : GNAW
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Hustle and bustle : RUSH
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Late queen of Jordan : ALIA
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Halibut or sole : FLATFISH
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Abate : LESSEN
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Declaim : ORATE
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Opulent : RICH
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Astronaut Slayton : DEKE
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Regard highly : ESTEEM
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Wheat or cotton : STAPLE
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"___ Shanter" : TAMO
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Concluded : OVER
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Sassy : PERT
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Wrathful : IRATE
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Jockey's controls : REINS
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Bellowing : AROAR
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Metaphysical poet: 1573-1631 : DONNE
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Assessed : RATED
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The Fourth Estate : PRESS
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Kin of umps : REFS
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Of the palm or sole : VOLAR
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"Better late than never" is one : ADAGE
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Fills the hold : LADES
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Trifle : WHIT
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Follower of easy or high : CHAIR
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Tendon; strength : SINEW
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Hoarder's activity : AMASSING
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Famed cordon bleu : CAESAR
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Restaurant patrons' choices : ORDERS
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Become boiling mad : SEERED
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Feudal lord or vassal : LIEGE
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Manner, in Mexico : MODO
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Footnote abbr. : IBID
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Strange: Comb. form : XENO
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Sinful; sinister : EVIL
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"___, vidi, vici" : VENI
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Fly high : SOAR
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"___ girl!" : ITSA
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Cry of disgust : RATS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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