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Jack L. Steinhardt
Jack L. Steinhardt

New York Times, Saturday, August 9, 1980

Author:
Jack L. Steinhardt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { F H J K Q U W X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 90.3
Jack L. Steinhardt has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,232
Across
1
Savory jelly : ASPIC
6
Knight's backup : PIPS
10
Attend Choate or Andover : PREP
14
City ESE of Bombay : POONA
15
Site of the Pearl Mosque : AGRA
16
Iranian coin : RIAL
17
Exercise an option : ELECT
18
Word with tide or time : NOON
19
"Three Sisters" character : OLGA
20
With exuberance : DEMONSTRATIVELY
23
River nymph : NAIS
24
Stands : ABIDES
25
Fastens : CLASPS
28
Kind of trust : BRAIN
30
___ lazuli : LAPIS
31
Lunar terrain : MOONSCAPE
35
"That Uncertain Feeling" author : AMIS
36
Heart line : AORTA
37
Cross or Duke : IRON
38
Pleistocene mammals : MASTODONS
40
Section of a long poem : CANTO
41
Mug : EMOTE
42
Civilian cousins of batmen : VALETS
43
Decalogue defier : SINNER
46
Skirt of the 60's : MINI
47
Scarlett's form of escapism : PROCRASTINATION
53
Shankar : RAVI
54
Grin broadly : BEAM
55
Burn the ends : SINGE
56
Curare : INEE
57
Flow along : LAVE
58
Part of Aquinas's credo : TENET
59
East Indian herbs : TILS
60
Actress Markey : ENID
61
Pompous ones : ASSES
Down
1
Copied : APED
2
Matchless : SOLE
3
Rondel, e.g. : POEM
4
Self-contradictions : INCONSISTENCIES
5
Dozes lightly : CATNAPS
6
Locale of Sam's lengthy error : PANTS
7
Pet bat in "The Munsters" : IGOR
8
Pacific sailing vessel : PROA
9
Hot, dry wind of southern Calif. : SANTAANA
10
Unsophisticated, narrow-minded traits : PROVINCIALITIES
11
All het up : RILED
12
U.S. $10 coin, until 1933 : EAGLE
13
Pinter products : PLAYS
21
Sonny's sibling : SIS
22
Okefenokee denizen : IBIS
25
Goeduck or gweduc : CLAM
26
User of a prayer wheel : LAMA
27
Sacred bull : APIS
28
Carried : BORNE
29
Molders : ROTS
31
Purely academic : MOOT
32
Princess changed into a magpie : ARNE
33
Printing-paper size : POTT
34
Father of Cainan : ENOS
36
Charming : ADORABLE
39
Period starting on the second day of Passover : OMER
40
Variation of rummy : CANASTA
42
___ blanc : VIN
43
Diagonal support for a sail : SPRIT
44
Dweller in Qum : IRANI
45
Drabble offering : NOVEL
46
Emulated Marceau : MIMED
48
O'Casey : SEAN
49
Rikki-tikki-___ : TAVI
50
London's ___ of Court : INNS
51
Gula : OGEE
52
Clears : NETS

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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