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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Wednesday, October 24, 1979

34-Across : "The ___ of Navarone": 1961 film

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 60, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 13, XRef: 2, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
C. J. Angio has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,942
Across
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The Crimson Tide, for short : BAMA
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God of love : AMOR
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One of two before "hooray" : HIP
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Capital of Guam : AGANA
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Successor to Claudius I : NERO
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Emulated Penelope : WOVE
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Hundred on a gridiron : YARDS
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On ___ (in trouble with the boss) : THECARPET
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Suffix with disc and talc : OID
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Spree : TOOT
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Poet Lizette Woodworth ___ : REESE
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Group honored annually on Oct. 24 : UNITEDNATIONS
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Kong's captive : WRAY
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Home of the Oilers : HOUSTON
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Tom Joad, for one : OKIE
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"The ___ of Navarone": 1961 film : GUNS
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"___ pro nobis" : ORA
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Legislative body for 23 Across : GENERALASSEMBLY
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Platter for a deejay : REC
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State flower of Tenn. : IRIS
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Shoe widths : EEES
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Puzzles : ENIGMAS
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Inoculation : SHOT
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Where the blueprint for 23 Across was drawn up : DUMBARTONOAKS
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He wrote "The Old Wives' Tale": 1595 : PEELE
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First-rate : AONE
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Nickname for one of the Russells : LIL
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Bureaucratic buck-passing : RUNAROUND
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Expiate : ATONE
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Comedian Johnson : ARTE
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Slangy synonym for influence : DRAG
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Musketeer maneuver : LUNGE
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Sandberg's "The People, ___" : YES
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___-Q, old dance : SUSY
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"Father Knows ___" : BEST
Down
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Jambalaya country : BAYOU
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"How's that ___?" : AGAIN
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Melville book : MARDI
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Rain cats ___ dogs : AND
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Burton role in 1962 : ANTONY
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Zubin ___, noted conductor : MEHTA
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Native mineral : ORE
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Fabulous bird : ROC
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"Man partly is, and wholly ___": Browning : HOPESTOBE
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Currier's partner : IVES
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Rose or Fountain : PETE
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Fall bloom : ASTER
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Tomtits : WRENS
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Excite : AROUSE
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Harem room : ODA
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Sound from a nest : TWEE
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What "sic" means : THUS
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Cyclotron particles : IONS
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Wreath on a knight's helmet : ORLE
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Votes from the opposition : NAYS
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Man-eating monster : OGRE
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Sharp : KEEN
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Occurrences : INCIDENTS
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Natural ___ : GAS
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Edging tool : RIMMER
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Sinai dweller : ARAB
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Soprano Della Casa : LISA
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"Get ___ the Church on Time" : METO
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Upper throats : GULAE
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Like a stick-in-the-mud : STODGY
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Darlin' : HON
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He played in "Love Story" : ONEAL
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Punjab princes : RANAS
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By oneself : ALONE
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Book of the Bible : KINGS
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One cause of crashes : SLEET
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Say grace : PRAY
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Chartres' stream : EURE
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Army togs : ODS
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O.A.S. member : URU
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Junior's Saturday evening post : TUB

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 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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