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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Friday, December 14, 1979

55-Across : Windbag buys a gun

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Missing: { F J K Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 248 (avg 1.33)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, 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. 10,993
Across
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Jungfrau is one : ALP
4
River in Czechoslovakia : OPPA
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Floral tidbit : SPRIG
13
___ Pea, Popeye's adoptee : SWEE
14
Costume for Lakmé : SARI
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Buffalo's ___Theater : ARENA
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Boone threw the dice : PATROLLED
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Triangular insert : GODET
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Carney goes to market : ARTSHOPS
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Notre Dame niches : APSES
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Button for a bowler : RESET
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"Men ___ angels": Browning : ARENOT
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Siouan Sooners : OSAGES
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Vet on the wet : SALT
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Sunken part : SAG
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Least furnished : BAREST
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Site of many eerie mishaps : ERIE
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Frogs, chicks or voyeurs : PEEPERS
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One of the men behind bars : TAPSTER
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Where Vulcan forged : ETNA
41
Strike out : DELETE
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Dowson's "Non ___ Qualis Eram" : SUM
44
British target on D-day : CAEN
45
Seasons : INURES
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O. Henry's "The ___ of Red Chief" : RANSOM
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Scoutmaster's charges : TROOP
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One of the Bahamas : ABACO
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Windbag buys a gun : BOREARMS
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Type of print, for short : LITHO
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O'Toole comments on a turkey : PETERPANS
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Curved moldings : OGEES
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It might be cast or wrought : IRON
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"___ a Song Go ... " : ILET
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Oldfangled : PASSE
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Basic verb for Virgil : ESSE
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Ecole ___ Beaux-Arts : DES
Down
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Sentient : AWARE
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Latvians who sound willing : LETTS
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Intrinsically : PERSE
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City about the size of Boston : OSLO
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Lobster's feeler : PALP
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Foretell : PRESAGE
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Partner of abet : AID
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He wrote "The Dragons of Eden" : SAGAN
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Tom Watson becomes a model : PROPOSES
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Skelton makes his debut : REDSTARTS
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Arrow poison : INEE
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The mob's erasers : GATS
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U.S.C.G. member : SPAR
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"___ in England ... ": Browning : OHTOBE
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Kid napping : RESTER
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Villa : ESTATE
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Capital of ancient Lydia : SARDIS
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Insecticide ingredient: Comb. form : ARSENO
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Stead : LIEU
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Six years in the Senate : TERM
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Guesswork, for short : SPEC
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Group on Bataan : AETA
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Littler ranks high : GENERATES
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Greek god is in pain : PANACHES
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What nudniks do : PESTER
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Moves heavily and noisily : LUMBERS
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Part of a springe : NOOSE
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Expeditious : RAPID
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Cape for John Paul II : ORALE
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All: Stage dir. : OMNES
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Attention-getting sound : PSST
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Skewed : ALOP
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Track nickname : BIGA
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Group in Nebraska : OTOS
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Tenor Kollo : RENE
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Bird allied to a jay : PIE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 8 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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