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Johnson
Johnson

New York Times, Monday, November 16, 1981

44-Across : Hope and treasure

Author:
Johnson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has duplicate clues.
Johnson has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,696
Across
1
Source of iodine : KELP
5
Lisbon's famous tower : BELEM
10
Seagoing pole : SPAR
14
Bones at the hips : ILIA
15
Varnish ingredient : ELEMI
16
Diplomatic finesse : TACT
17
Gay Nineties fashion : WALRUSMOUSTACHE
20
Vehement : INTENSE
21
___ blanche : CARTE
22
Gareth's title : SIR
23
Voucher : CHIT
24
Substitute handkerchief : TISSUE
28
Shovel's companion : PAIL
29
Portray others : ACT
32
Novelist Michael : ARLEN
33
Singleton : ONE
34
Woodwind : OBOE
35
Gay Nineties fashion : HOURGLASSFIGURE
39
"Lean ___," Bill Withers hit song : ONME
40
Skill : ART
41
Wyoming range : TETON
42
Oracles have it: Abbr. : ESP
43
St. ___ (town near Penzance) : IVES
44
Hope and treasure : CHESTS
45
Refreshers : ADES
46
Goat's cry : MAA
47
City on the Warta, to Germans : POSEN
49
Monk : ASCETIC
54
Gay Nineties fashion : POMPADOURHAIRDO
57
Topmost : AONE
58
Ford or Pyle : ERNIE
59
Army surgeon Walter : REED
60
What spiders do : SPIN
61
Kin of martingales : REINS
62
To be, to Pliny : ESSE
Down
1
Flightless bird : KIWI
2
Spirit : ELAN
3
Rhythmic cadence : LILT
4
Do a K.P. job : PARE
5
A nickname for Elizabeth : BESSIE
6
Fudd or Gantry : ELMER
7
"The Lip" of baseball : LEO
8
Australian bird : EMU
9
What imps get into : MISCHIEF
10
Sudden jolt : START
11
Agreement : PACT
12
Possible result of caries : ACHE
13
Map abbr. : RTE
18
Not celebrated : UNSUNG
19
Word with gate or light : TAIL
23
Sacks; fires : CANS
24
Western resort : TAHOE
25
Items for unruly sailors : IRONS
26
Problem for batters or investors : SLUMP
27
Withered : SERE
28
Travels with haste : POSTS
29
Borders : ABUTS
30
French landscape painter : COROT
31
Years between 12 and 20 : TEENS
34
Kind of arch : OGEE
36
Partner of old lace : LAVENDER
37
Mars, to Greeks : ARES
38
N.Y. college town : ITHACA
43
Cranial concoction : IDEA
44
What a teller does often : CASHES
45
Its leaves tremble : ASPEN
46
French seaman : MARIN
47
Kind of deck : POOP
48
All: Comb. form : OMNI
50
The old "ould sod" : EIRE
51
"___ bien, merci" : TRES
52
Follower of nones : IDES
53
Area or Morse : CODE
54
Dance step : PAS
55
Genesis of steel : ORE
56
One: Comb. form : UNI

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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