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A. J. Santora
A. J. Santora

New York Times, Saturday, January 14, 1978

54-Across : Pro football pinnacle

Author:
A. J. Santora
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
A. J. Santora has 185 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 68 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,381
Across
1
High note : ELA
4
Follower of de or ipso : FACTO
9
Rough crowd : MOB
12
Faux ___ : PAS
13
One-way indicator : ARROW
14
Porous defense : SIEVE
16
Time for a football finale : SUPERBOWLSUNDAY
19
Ex-Senator Long of Hawaii : OREN
20
Tourist's stop : INN
21
Game-show groups : PANELS
22
Clear authorization : MANDATE
24
Surge of blockers : WAVE
25
Raw material : ORE
26
Item on the East Side or West Side : SIDEWALK
30
A.F.C. or N.F.C. : CONFERENCE
34
Wife of Wang Lung : OLAN
35
Pyrenees peak : ANETO
36
"Mighty ___ a Rose" : LAK
37
One of the Shaws : ARTIE
38
Remote outpost for Peary : ETAH
39
Tops, in a division : FIRSTPLACE
41
Pad : NOTEBOOK
43
Hurry : HIE
44
Timeout blessing : REST
45
Feasted : REGALED
49
Baseball statistic : ATBATS
52
Diego or Francisco : SAN
53
Remote telecast : NEMO
54
Pro football pinnacle : NFLCHAMPIONSHIP
57
Scoring plays in Rugby football : TRIES
58
Behind the times : PASSE
59
Brew : ALE
60
Psychic initials : ESP
61
Bayard or Grani : STEED
62
Grange : RED
Down
1
Downs or salts : EPSOM
2
Writer Hobson : LAURA
3
Quaking tree : ASPEN
4
Partner of wide : FAR
5
Referee : ARBITER
6
Beldam : CRONE
7
Canton is one : TOWN
8
Temple football player : OWL
9
King Cyaxares was one : MEDE
10
Race track : OVAL
11
Provincial governors in the Ottoman Empire : BEYS
14
Urbane : SUAVE
15
Locational phrase re 16 Across: 1978 : INNEWORLEANS
17
Finish line : ENDOFTHERACE
18
Digging tool : SPADE
23
Mars: Comb. form : AREO
24
Sidney of basketball : WICKS
26
Nonsense creature : SNARK
27
Ski resort in Utah : ALTA
28
Nonprofessional : LAIC
29
Namath's weak spot : KNEE
30
Normandy city : CAEN
31
"___ the fray" : ONTO
32
Tidy : NEAT
33
"Romola" author : ELIOT
37
___ in a poke : APIG
39
Hollow, as in a bone : FOSSA
40
On ___ (precisely) : THENOSE
42
Hebrew letters : BETHS
45
Uplift : RAISE
46
Composer Franz : LEHAR
47
Zola : EMILE
48
Lubricated, as snowshoes : DOPED
49
Put up a stake : ANTE
50
Bus-to-bus tickets: Abbr. : TFRS
51
Radar-screen mark : BLIP
52
Quarrel : SPAT
55
AWOL's bane : MPS
56
Buntline of dime-novel fame : NED

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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