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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Thursday, February 26, 1981

41-Across : Center of attraction

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
C. J. Angio has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,433
Across
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Completed a sky dive : ALIT
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One kind of note : MASH
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Show approval : CLAP
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"One man's ___ is another man's Persian" : MEDE
14
Like sports crowds : AROAR
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Split-lipped leporid : HARE
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Start of a quotation by Anon. : ADOCTORWHOLACKS
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Anderson or Carter in 1980 : ALSORAN
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Least perilous : SAFEST
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Lloyd's top ratings : AIS
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George Eliot hero : BEDE
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Abbie's pal, in comics : SLATS
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Ordains, records or humiliates : SETSDOWN
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Do to do : SCALE
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Exit hastily : SCAT
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Call of the riled : BOO
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Middle of the quotation : PATIENCEMAYSOON
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Lincoln's "Cap'n ___" : ERI
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Time out of mind : EONS
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Noted conductor from Genoa : EREDE
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Center of attraction : CYNOSURE
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What hoarders do : AMASS
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Drug given to race horses, for short : BUTE
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Mellow : AGE
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Irish province : ULSTER
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Late arrival at an S.R.O. show : STANDEE
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End of the quotation : BEOUTOFPATIENTS
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A grandson of Eve : ENOS
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"Greasy" ___, Hall of Fame coach : NEALE
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Bionomics: Abbr. : ECOL
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Regulate : RATE
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"___ Tu," 1932 song : ERES
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Gainsay : DENY
Down
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Org. for the subject of this puzzle : AMA
2
One of Hera's rivals : LEDA
3
Graven image : IDOL
4
Shamuses : TECS
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North Island group : MAORIS
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"Flight to ___," book by Saint-Exupéry : ARRAS
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Planted : SOWN
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Cry of delight : HAH
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Irritated : CHAFED
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Colberteen, e.g. : LACE
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Havens : ARKS
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Aphid, for one : PEST
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___ stone of archeological lore : ROSETTA
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Precisely : TOATEE
19
Sprouts : LADS
23
Signals guiding pilots : BEAMS
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Adjective for a fee-faw-fum : SCARY
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Kind of quarter : LATIN
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Actress MacGraw : ALI
27
Film sequence : SCENE
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Contrabassoons, e.g. : OBOES
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Frost's "Stopping by ___ ... " : WOODS
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This is worse than a bad excuse : NONE
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Wall St. term for a risk : SPEC
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What a musical-comedy star must know : SCORE
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Atomic particle : NEUTRON
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Native of Sana : YEMENI
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Mrs., in Mexico : SRA
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Dull; dense : OBTUSE
43
Fat from sheep or cattle : SUET
44
Some immies : AGATES
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"It is ___ told by an idiot ... ": Macbeth : ATALE
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Beyond, in Berlin : UBER
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Chanteuse Horne : LENA
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Lampblack : SOOT
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Gaff : SPAR
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Exploit : DEED
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Suffix with confer : ENCE
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School allied with King's College : ETON
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Lawyer's retainer : FEE
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Actor Stallone's nickname : SLY

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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