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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Monday, January 1, 1979

55-Across : Teen-age tars

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
C. J. Angio has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,646
Across
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Mosque prayer leader : IMAM
5
Times Square gathering : MOB
8
Wassail : REVEL
13
One of five at St. Peter's : NAVE
14
Medical suffix : OSIS
16
Loch ___, in western Scotland : ETIVE
17
Glacier in Alaska : MUIR
18
Hayworth : RITA
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Borge and Melchior : DANES
20
Common run : AVERAGE
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Showy speakers : RHETORS
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Time for resolutions : NEWYEARSDAY
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Jan. 1, 1979 : MON
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Start of a new Yule tree : PINECONE
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Dirty ___ (gull-like bird) : ALLAN
35
Lineup in a London supermarket : TINS
36
Shape of Pasadena's stadium : OVAL
37
The New ___, in the 50's : LOOK
38
Magi number : THREE
39
"Nine ___ big fat hen" : TENA
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She, in Gay Paree : ELLE
41
Votes in favor : YEAS
42
Winning coach: 1970 Super Bowl : STRAM
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Goodman's music maker : CLARINET
45
U.S.-Ont. canals : SOO
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LXXIX : SEVENTYNINE
51
What a madcap obeys : IMPULSE
55
Teen-age tars : SEABOYS
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Papal crown : TIARA
57
Landlord, in Livorno : OSTE
59
Blow ___ horn (brag) : ONES
60
Array on one side : ALIGN
61
Newcomer in "The Red Pony" : FOAL
62
Fine, in Anglo-Saxon law : WITE
63
Did a docker's job : LADED
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What quidnuncs do : PRY
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Maid for Burns : LASS
Down
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He painted Hawthorne, Wordsworth et al. : INMAN
2
Lilac color : MAUVE
3
Start of a Miller title : AVIEW
4
Celebrant : MERRYMAKER
5
Helen who sat on pianos : MORGAN
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Incan bridge material : OSIER
7
Snaffle : BIT
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Cause of many a hangover : REDEYE
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State: Fr. : ETAT
10
Calabria celebrant's quaff : VINO
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Year after year after year : EVER
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Not so much : LESS
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Variety of hide-and-go-seek : SARDINES
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Era after era after era : AEON
23
Medieval merchants' guild : HANSE
25
Voiceless, in phonetics : SPIRATE
28
Site of an annual game in Dallas : COTTONBOWL
29
Turn ___ a new leaf : OVER
30
Nurse for a future Etonian : NANA
31
Babylonia's ancient rival : ELAM
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One of the Waughs : ALEC
33
Relax lazily : LOLL
34
Spoiled girl in a song : LOLA
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"___ St Agnes": Keats : THEEVEOF
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Margaret ___, soprano who joined the Met in 1974 : TYNES
42
Oriental legume : SOYA
44
Christmas is one : ISLAND
45
Hard, firm or cold : STEELY
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Heavenly body of the very red type : NSTAR
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Ancient district in Asia Minor : IONIA
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Red refusals : NYETS
50
Winding roads : ESSES
51
Type of type: Abbr. : ITAL
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"___ 18," Uris novel : MILA
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Receipt stamp : PAID
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Prompt : URGE
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Pacifier : SOP

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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