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Jordan S. Lasher
Jordan S. Lasher

EXOTIC AVIARY

New York Times, Sunday, December 7, 1980

1-Across : Plaster painting surface

Author:
Jordan S. Lasher
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 134, Blocks: 74, Avg Word Len: 5.48, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 575 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 128, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 19, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13
Jordan S. Lasher has 60 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,352
Across
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Plaster painting surface : GESSO
6
Air-rifle ammo : BBS
9
NBC's parent : RCA
12
Far from being a birdbrain : SMART
17
Tiny interstice : AREOLA
19
Breakfast dish : OATMEAL
21
Harold Robbins or Robin Cook : AUTHOR
23
Love song : BALLAD
24
Woodcock : WHISTLINGSNIPE
26
Loon's relative : SLAVONIANGREBE
28
Used a strop : HONED
29
Subatomic particle : MUON
30
"Step ___!" : ONIT
31
Black cuckoos : ANIS
32
River to Gorki : OKA
33
Snug as a bug in ___ : ARUG
34
Sources of peat : BOGS
35
Sojourns : BIDES
36
Complex silicates : MICAS
38
Portend : BETOKEN
40
Protozoan : MONAD
41
Buster Brown's dog : TIGE
42
Henley team : OARS
43
"Frozen rope," in baseball : LINER
44
Paparazzo's meal ticket : CAMERA
46
Visits unexpectedly : POPSIN
49
Worked in a colliery : MINED
50
Buildings in Boston and Boise : CAPITOLS
52
A Green Mountain Boy : ALLEN
53
Roast meat serving : KABOB
54
Tourn. round : SEMIS
55
Dine : SUP
56
Porta ___, Roma : PIA
57
Cousin of a plover : LILYTROTTER
59
Physician's org. : AMA
60
Bird: Comb. form : AVI
61
Siamese fighting fish : BETTA
62
Sister of Calliope : ERATO
63
___ bird (bobolink) : SKUNK
65
Nestlings' appendages : WINGLETS
67
Queeg's ship : CAINE
68
Snap : COOKIE
69
Tired : AWEARY
70
Crusty : CAKED
71
"Amscray!" : SHOO
72
Actor Devine : ANDY
73
___ bird (ostrich) : CAMEL
74
Durable yellow fabric : NANKEEN
78
Matchmaker in Anatevka : YENTE
80
Cotton packer : BALER
81
Dribble or gush : FLOW
83
Author Seton : ANYA
84
The birds ___ the bees : AND
85
Khachaturian : ARAM
86
Quay : PIER
87
Très ___ : BIEN
88
Angler's basket : CREEL
91
Feathered chatterer : BABBLINGTHRUSH
95
Anhima; kamichi : HORNEDSCREAMER
97
___ Avon (Anthony Eden) : EARLOF
99
___ line (conform) : TOETHE
100
B-52's place : AIRBASE
101
Without adulteration : PURELY
102
"Les ___ Mousquetaires" : TROIS
103
Perched : SAT
104
___ Jeanne d'Arc : STE
105
Fraught : LADEN
Down
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M.C.'s "gift" : GAB
2
Obliteration : ERASURE
3
Turn traitor : SELLOUT
4
Large white gannet : SOLANGOOSE
5
Oslo monarch : OLAV
6
Making a grand salaam : BOWING
7
Members of a certain worldwide religion : BAHAIS
8
Tour of duty : STINT
9
Taught an old dog new tricks : RETRAINED
10
Desk or wall piece : CALENDAR
11
Made excuses : ALIBIED
12
Slump : SAG
13
Mawkish sentimentality : MUSH
14
Physics abbr. : ATNO
15
Razorbill's kin : RHINOCEROSAUK
16
Home of some Jayhawkers : TOPEKA
18
Hubble-bubble : ADO
20
S O S is one : MSG
22
"___ a rose is she": Coleridge : REDAS
25
Famous Fed : NESS
27
Day bisectors : NOONS
29
Shelley's "Queen ___" : MAB
34
City on the Aar : BERN
35
Giant petrel or osprey : BONEBREAKER
36
Benzell and Sheraton : MIMIS
37
"___ Ideas," 1951 song : IGET
39
Malayan sarong : KAIN
40
North Dakota city : MINOT
41
Animal with a snout : TAPIR
43
"Shores of Tripoli" site : LIBYA
44
Bit part for a star : CAMEO
45
They reune : ALUMNI
46
Fleshy fruit : PAPAW
47
Newton-John : OLIVIA
48
Button quail's look-alike : PLAINWANDERER
49
Brewery supply : MALTS
50
___ nuit (tonight, in Tours) : CETTE
51
"And God ___ unto Israel ... ": Gen. 46:2 : SPAKE
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Sea gull, for short : KITTY
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Remain in force : STAND
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Quite cautious : LEERY
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Bay window : ORIEL
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Cutter : BLADE
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Posthaste : SOON
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Down Under kingfisher : KOOKABURRA
66
Bloke : GENT
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A soft cheese : CAMEMBERT
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Tobacco wad : CHAW
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Reggio ___, Italian seaport : CALABRIA
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Contemptuous sound : SNORT
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Bolivar's birthplace : CARACAS
75
On Alcatraz, e.g. : ENISLED
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Mask feature : EYEHOLE
77
Masefield heroine : NAN
78
The Courageous, e.g. : YACHT
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Plant firmly : ENROOT
80
Eleanor, to F.D.R. : BABS
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New York's ___ (police) : FINEST
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Cruelty personified : LEGREE
86
Lightweight cottons : PIMAS
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Within: Comb. form : ENTO
90
City on Utah Lake : LEHI
92
R.P.I. room : LAB
93
With it : HEP
94
Actor Julia : RAUL
96
___ Prés, Flemish composer : DES
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Island of Denmark : FYN

Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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