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Johnson
Johnson

New York Times, Monday, September 22, 1980

Author:
Johnson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 25.8 Grid has duplicate clues.
Johnson has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,276
Across
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Jade : TIRE
5
Get out! : SCAT
9
___ in the wood : AGED
13
Product of imagination : IDEA
14
Sky hunter : ORION
16
Stall : LOGE
17
Former Manhattan sight : ELEVATEDRAILWAY
20
Drafted G.I. : SELECTEE
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Drifts : TRENDS
22
Scatter for drying : TED
23
Mast support : STAY
24
" ... lonely as ___": Wordsworth : ACLOUD
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Type of coat or check : RAIN
29
Letters after letters : PSS
32
Eyelashes : CILIA
33
Coral Gables's county : DADE
34
"I am ___ conventional dither" : INA
35
Former Manhattan sights : TROLLEYCARLINES
39
Wintry weather word : ICY
40
Proper : MEET
41
Stakes : ANTES
42
One of Edward's nicknames : NED
43
U.S. V.I., e.g. : TERR
44
Relativity, for one : THEORY
45
Kin of gobs : TARS
46
Branco or Grande : RIO
47
Questions : ISSUES
50
Give fresh life to : RECREATE
55
Former Manhattan sight : DOUBLEDECKERBUS
57
One of five bodies of water : ERIE
58
Of a royal domain : DUCAL
59
Observed : SEEN
60
Tennis units : SETS
61
Gull : DUPE
62
Cicero's "to be" : ESSE
Down
1
Joins : TIES
2
Run in neutral gear : IDLE
3
Virginia ___ : REEL
4
Overhang : EAVE
5
Stupefied : SOTTED
6
Belief : CREED
7
Washington, to Braddock : AIDE
8
Rocky crag : TOR
9
Place for pins : ALLEY
10
Cap's partner : GOWN
11
Minced oath : EGAD
12
One-time rulers of Tunis : DEYS
15
More dapper : NATTIER
18
Far from fantastic : ACTUAL
19
Khomeini's land : IRAN
23
Chief Cairene : SADAT
24
" ... ___ the living Present!": Longfellow : ACTIN
25
Island sorceress : CIRCE
26
Harold of silents : LLOYD
27
Olive or crude follower : OIL
28
Bobby Unser, e.g. : RACER
29
Piebald : PINTO
30
Scoff : SNEER
31
Impudent : SASSY
33
Textile workers : DYERS
36
Rising above the surface : EMERSED
37
City NW of Delhi : LAHORE
38
Chemical ending : INE
43
Oriental weight : TAEL
44
Please : TICKLE
45
Toothpaste containers : TUBES
46
Summarize, for short : RECAP
47
Warning word to Caesar : IDES
48
Disgruntled : SORE
49
Diamonds, e.g. : SUIT
50
Parisian's receipt : RECU
51
Gaelic : ERSE
52
Beame and Fortas : ABES
53
Day named for a god of war: Abbr. : TUES
54
Early domestic : ESNE
56
Flat failure : DUD

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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