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Johnson
Johnson

New York Times, Monday, February 11, 1980

5-Across : Mackerellike fish

Author:
Johnson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J K Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Johnson has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,052
Across
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Ancient : AGED
5
Mackerellike fish : CERO
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Roe producer : SHAD
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St. Paul's has one : DOME
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Epochs upon epochs : AEONS
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Where to see El Misti : PERU
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Small boner : SLIP
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Footprint, e.g. : TRACE
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"___ Old Cowhand" : IMAN
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Now and then : FROMTIMETOTIME
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January event : SALE
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Foulard : TIE
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Kind of society : POLITE
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Early victim : ABEL
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Mortar beater : RAB
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Select : ELITE
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Penitent one : RUER
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Source of leather : HIDE
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Nothing to do : TIMEONONESHANDS
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Enthusiastic : AVID
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Uses chopsticks : EATS
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Passageway : AISLE
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"___ there be light" : LET
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Barley beards : AWNS
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Kind of Arab or car : STREET
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Silly one : ASS
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Out of ___ (not conforming) : STEP
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See 14 Across : TIMEIMMEMORIAL
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Sleep like ___ : ALOG
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Certain fisherman : EELER
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Black : EBON
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Fairy : PERI
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Lofty : NOBLE
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Yield : CEDE
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Letters : EXES
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Volstead's opponents : WETS
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Cut, as a film : EDIT
Down
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Some posters, e.g. : ADS
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Hubert Green's forte : GOLF
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Saudi V.I.P. : EMIR
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Added to an account : DEPOSITED
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Oxen, bulls, etc. : CATTLE
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Hair-raising : EERIE
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"Sadly I ___": Foster : ROAM
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Story starter : ONCE
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Malicious ill will : SPITE
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Half: Comb. form : HEMI
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Bulwer-Lytton's "Eugene ___" : ARAM
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Negev mound : DUNE
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Gordon and Irish : SETTERS
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San ___, Calif. : MATEO
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Motor need : OIL
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Corolla part : PETAL
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Popeye's gal : OLIVE
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55 m.p.h., e.g. : LIMIT
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Relations : AUNTS
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Apiary dwellers : BEES
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Light wash : RINSE
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Confuse : ADDLE
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Harass : BESET
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Equine color : ROAN
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Toupee : HAIRPIECE
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Greeley, Pyle et al. : NEWSMEN
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Woman ___ (misogynist) : HATER
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"___ was saying ... " : ASI
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Business places : STORES
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Shield of Zeus or Athena : AEGIS
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Silvery food fish : SMELT
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Strip broken by a sprinter : TAPE
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Holly : ILEX
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Humanist canonized in 1935 : MORE
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Kitty's cry : MEOW
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North Sea feeder : ELBE
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In the sack : ABED
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City in N.J. : LODI
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After expenses : NET

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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