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Judson G. Trent
Judson G. Trent

New York Times, Friday, November 21, 1980

20-Across : News-story item

Author:
Judson G. Trent
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J K Q W X }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Judson G. Trent has 51 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,336
Across
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"___ nome," Gilda aria : CARO
5
Coolers : COLAS
10
Like Houdini : DEFT
14
Addict : USER
15
Titillate : AMUSE
16
Airport for Pierre : ORLY
17
Eclectic painter: 1575-1642 : RENI
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Anagram for unpoetical : PECULATION
20
News-story item : DATELINE
22
Projecting rim : FLANGE
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Old A.L. Senators, for short : NATS
24
Two-master : BRIG
25
Grieg girl : ANITRA
28
De Carlo or Del Rio : BRUNETTE
32
Atom or protozoan : MONAD
33
Richelieu quality : GUILE
34
Measure of radiation : REM
35
Shepherd who sounded competent : ABEL
36
Château-Thierry's river : MARNE
37
Thrash : CANE
38
What a lazybones lacks : ZIP
39
What ravers don't make : SENSE
40
Skittish horse : SHIER
41
Alienate : ESTRANGE
43
Horn of ___ (cornucopia) : PLENTY
44
Oscar winner: 1958 : IVES
45
See 38 Across : ELAN
46
Humperdinck lass : GRETEL
49
Union and Penn : STATIONS
53
Anagram for saturnalia : AUSTRALIAN
55
William ___ Phelps of Yale : LYON
56
Elbe feeder : OSTE
57
Fowler's forte : USAGE
58
Jacob's third son : LEVI
59
Goneril's father : LEAR
60
Ancient Babylonian region : SUMER
61
Part of a geometric sign-off : ERAT
Down
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Whey's opposite : CURD
2
On the Red or Black : ASEA
3
Split : RENT
4
Anagram for relation : ORIENTAL
5
Per ___ : CAPITA
6
Delphic data : OMENS
7
"The Women" playwright : LUCE
8
Tempe letters : ASU
9
Autonomy : SELFRULE
10
Senility : DOTAGE
11
O'Casey's love : ERIN
12
Emulate Bligh : FLOG
13
Newcastle's river : TYNE
19
Skirt with a flare : ALINE
21
Embellish : LARD
24
The ocean : BRINE
25
What Stengel hoped his Mets would do : AMAZE
26
Ora pro ___ : NOBIS
27
Clumsy : INEPT
28
Scholarship for Scottie : BURSE
29
Coach : TRAIN
30
Principle for Erasmus : TENET
31
Corundum : EMERY
33
"West Side Story" opponents : GANGS
36
Husband of Helen of Troy : MENELAUS
37
Anagram for Hellenic : CHENILLE
39
Follower of life or time : SAVER
40
Louver : SLAT
42
Male star of "Three's Company" : RITTER
43
Cabinetmaker, at times : PLANER
45
Floor, in the Louvre : ETAGE
46
British pokey : GAOL
47
Ploy : RUSE
48
This, to Tomás : ESTA
49
Thailand, once : SIAM
50
___ and terminer : OYER
51
Loser to Louis: 1941 : NOVA
52
Pique : SNIT
54
Baton Rouge inst. : LSU

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

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