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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Wednesday, February 7, 1979

45-Across : Kind of singer or bearer

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
C. J. Angio has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,683
Across
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Seven for Sinbad : SEAS
5
Author of the quotation below : SHAW
9
Squama : SCALE
14
Start of a quotation : LACK
15
Armadillo : PEBA
16
Paint company employee : TONER
17
Court celebrity : ASHE
18
North African cypress pine : ARAR
19
Rocket's upper stage : AGENA
20
Mangel-wurzels : BEETS
22
Quotation: Part II : OFMONEYIS
24
Noted N.Y. governor : CLINTON
26
State bird of Hawaii : NENE
27
Turkish titles : PASHAS
30
Triton : NEWT
32
Quotation: Part III : THE
33
"The play's the ___" : THING
36
Tocsin : ALARM
40
Lancaster's Valley group : AMISH
42
Rosalynn Carter, ___ Smith : NEE
43
Neighbor of Iraq : SYRIA
44
Therefore : HENCE
45
Kind of singer or bearer : TORCH
47
Here, in Haiti : ICI
48
___ Islands, near New Guinea : AROE
50
OPEC lands : OILDOM
52
Like A. J. Foyt's cars : FAST
55
Historic French forest : ARGONNE
58
Quotation: Part IV : ROOTOFALL
60
Dehisced : GAPED
64
Fiat : ORDER
65
Wainscot : CEIL
67
Carnegie or Evans : DALE
68
Genesis : START
69
Rikki-Tikki-___ : TAVI
70
End of quotation : EVIL
71
Byron's "The Lament of ___" : TASSO
72
Captain Hook's sidekick : SMEE
73
Authentic : REAL
Down
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Thick piece of marble : SLAB
2
Luxury : EASE
3
Word with tooth or ear : ACHE
4
Rough drawing : SKETCH
5
French Lick is one : SPA
6
Bittern : HERON
7
At the stern : ABAFT
8
Rabid hawk : WARMONGER
9
Musial : STAN
10
In a convincing way : COGENTLY
11
Keep ___ on (watch over) : ANEYE
12
Pravda founder: 1912 : LENIN
13
Obliterate : ERASE
21
Apply thickly : SLATHER
23
Washington's bill : ONE
25
___ Kabibble : ISH
27
The Egyptian Vulcan : PTAH
28
Alas! : AHME
29
Existence, in Essen : SEIN
31
Monday's chore : WASHING
34
Has reciprocal effect : INTERACTS
35
Prefix with classic or Gothic : NEO
37
Devoid of interest : ARID
38
Puerto ___ : RICO
39
Disable : MAIM
41
Strews : SCATTERS
46
Debate side : CON
49
Lummox : OAF
51
Man in the van : LEADER
52
Jack or Robert : FROST
53
Corporeal channel : AORTA
54
Refreshments : SODAS
56
Flash of light : GLEAM
57
Relish-tray item : OLIVE
59
"___ take arms ... " : ORTO
61
Smooth the way : PAVE
62
Kazan : ELIA
63
Farmer's locale, in a song : DELL
66
Whopper : LIE

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

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