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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Thursday, October 2, 1980

19-Across : What every speaker needs

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { B J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,286
Across
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Before Sat. : FRI
4
Tea Party leader: Dec. 16, 1773 : ADAMS
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Slanted, open passageway : RAMP
13
Algerian seaport : ORAN
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___ Gray, inventor of the shimmy : GILDA
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"A Death in the Family" author : AGEE
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Giants' playground : CANDLESTICKPARK
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What every speaker needs : AUDIENCE
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Usher's ground : AISLE
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Regarding : ASTO
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Wrangler's companion : PARD
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Starts, as a horse : SHIES
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Rectangular column : PILASTER
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Word before bone or plaster : SHIN
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Porker : SHOAT
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Workers' group: Abbr. : ILO
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Bakery item : PARKERHOUSEROLL
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Santa ___, Calif. : ANA
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Banking service : LOANS
39
Type of arch : OGEE
40
Fictional sleuth : SAMSPADE
42
The Arno crosses his city : PISAN
44
River rising in the Bernese Alps : AARE
45
Of sound mind : SANE
46
Shield of Zeus : AEGIS
49
Desert footgear : SANDSHOE
53
Where Old Faithful obliges tourists : YELLOWSTONEPARK
56
Martian: Comb. form : AREO
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In agreement : ATONE
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Amorous look : OGLE
59
Actress Martha from Fort Worth : HYER
60
Deceived : DUPED
61
Literary monogram : TSE
Down
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Sauerbraten server : FRAU
2
She had several fans : RAND
3
Fluid for a cartoonist : INDIAINK
4
Their job may be purchasing : AGENTS
5
Kind of dancer : DISCO
6
An elder in Essen : ALTE
7
When Luther was 18 : MDI
8
One of Black Hawk's braves : SAC
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What some adventurers shoot : RAPIDS
10
Turkish bigwigs : AGAS
11
Blackbird : MERL
12
Toy dog, for short : PEKE
13
S.A. wood sorrel : OCA
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___-majesté : LESE
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System of unarmed self-defense : KARATE
22
" ... the ___ frauds of friendship": Fielding : PIOUS
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Word of woe : ALAS
24
"Talking Woman" author, ___ Alexander : SHANA
25
___ Ulysses Grant : HIRAM
26
Word with radio : PHONE
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N.Y. State county : TIOGA
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Burstyn from Detroit : ELLEN
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This is in a cast : ROLE
30
Saratoga Springs and Hot Springs : SPAS
31
What to seek in dog days : SHADE
34
___ del Norte (Rio Grande gorge) : ELPASO
35
Bellow : ROAR
36
Early symptom of typhoid fever : ROSESPOT
41
London was one; so was O'Neill : SAILOR
42
Razzed : PANNED
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Foster's "Massa's ___ Cold, Cold Ground" : INDE
45
River in France : SAONE
46
Lady's maid in Bombay : AYAH
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Weird : EERY
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Feeling after triumph : GLEE
49
Word before order or payment : STOP
50
Witches : HAGS
51
Chaplet on Galahad's headgear : ORLE
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Scrape by, with "out" : EKE
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Billfold contents : WAD
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Actor ___ Erwin : STU

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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