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Jordan S. Lasher
Jordan S. Lasher

New York Times, Friday, December 19, 1980

45-Across : Parson ___, noted biographer

Author:
Jordan S. Lasher
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 313 (avg 1.64)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 14, XRef: 1, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jordan S. Lasher has 60 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,364
Across
1
Flair : GIFT
5
Actor Everett : CHAD
9
Rock or disco : MUSIC
14
Hodgepodge : OLIO
15
Engage : HIRE
16
___ fours (crawling) : ONALL
17
With great insight : PERSPICACIOUSLY
20
Jointure : SEAM
21
Alight : LAND
22
Held : HAD
23
Third from last : ANTEPENULTIMATE
27
Norse queen of the underworld : HEL
28
Country-club V.I.P. : PRO
29
Wave: Sp. : OLA
30
"I ___ Rock," Simon and Garfunkel hit : AMA
31
Brute : YAHOO
34
Himalayan abominations : YETIS
38
Foxx : REDD
40
"Crime and Punishment" girl : SONYA
42
Used a blunderbuss : SHOT
43
"The bright ___ done": Shak. : DAYIS
45
Parson ___, noted biographer : WEEMS
47
Sayer of 51 Across : EWE
48
Rumania's 100 bani : LEU
50
D.C. figure : REP
51
Farm utterance : BAA
52
Adherence to religious practices : ECCLESIASTICISM
58
___ creole : ALA
59
Be inclined : TEND
60
Title in Düsseldorf : HERR
61
Hit song of 1964 : DOWAHDIDDYDIDDY
66
"If ___ a Rich Man" : IWERE
67
Wends : GOES
68
Hello or goodbye, in Genova : CIAO
69
Through : ENDED
70
Step ___ (hie) : ONIT
71
Composer of "Ol' Man River" : KERN
Down
1
Recent election winners : GOP
2
Part of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon : ILE
3
Dolley or Martha : FIRSTLADY
4
"We're off ___ the Wizard" : TOSEE
5
Fantastic fabrications : CHIMERAS
6
___ et ubique (here and everywhere) : HIC
7
Babylonian abode of the dead : ARALU
8
Certain transfer : DECAL
9
In a huffish way : MOODILY
10
Former Burmese statesman : UNU
11
Bird in "Peter and the Wolf" : SASHA
12
___ ease (restless) : ILLAT
13
Bonnie's partner : CLYDE
18
Like mush : PAPPY
19
Division word : INTO
23
"___ Day's Night," Beatles film : AHARD
24
Ancient Greek valley : NEMEA
25
Not at all : NOHOW
26
Busch and Marsh : MAES
32
Bill that's often passed : ONE
33
Court hearings : OYERS
35
"Watch ___!" : THEBIRDIE
36
Midwestern Indians : IOWAS
37
Heating medium : STEAM
39
Pickling seed : DILL
41
Stone once believed to prevent drunkenness : AMETHYST
44
Saw red : SEETHED
46
Reconnoitered : SPIED
49
Previously owned : USED
52
"Lady" in an old song : EADIE
53
Emmett Kelly was one : CLOWN
54
Made corvine sounds : CAWED
55
Architect Jones : INIGO
56
Append : ADDON
57
Pain in the neck : CRICK
62
Exist : ARE
63
"Agnus ___" : DEI
64
___ es Salaam : DAR
65
Over there : YON

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 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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