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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Wednesday, March 11, 1981

36-Across : "Sliding ___," Paul Simon song

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 15, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Clue for 36-Across should have begun with "Slip Slidin'," not "Sliding"; left as in the original.

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M
2
A
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M
4
I
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E
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B
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A
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R
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A
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F
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R
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A
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Y
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A
L
I
C
E
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O
P
U
S
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A
E
R
O
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P
A
N
E
L
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W
E
E
K
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E
N
D
E
R
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R
U
M
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S
I
D
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A
D
D
I
C
T
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T
A
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N
T
E
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A
N
D
A
D
A
Y
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S
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I
E
N
N
A
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S
A
T
A
N
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N
O
M
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E
N
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T
E
R
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S
C
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H
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M
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O
36
A
W
A
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Y
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S
O
D
O
39
M
40
E
O
A
N
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P
A
N
E
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S
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T
E
N
O
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R
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U
N
O
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A
L
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T
E
R
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N
E
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A
R
E
R
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B
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A
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R
R
O
O
M
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S
T
I
N
G
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A
M
E
B
A
E
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B
A
H
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I
L
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E
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S
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C
O
N
D
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A
C
T
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S
M
A
S
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H
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I
N
T
O
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I
N
D
Y
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R
U
S
S
E
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N
D
A
K
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N
E
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R
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A
S
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,446
Across
1
Successor of Bess : MAMIE
6
Theda of the silents : BARA
10
Unravel : FRAY
14
Dodgson's girl : ALICE
15
Musical composition : OPUS
16
Prefix with gram or dyne : AERO
17
Jury list : PANEL
18
Small suitcase : WEEKENDER
20
West Indies product : RUM
21
Imogene's partner : SID
22
Pusher's victim : ADDICT
23
French family member : TANTE
25
Forever ___ : ANDADAY
26
Word following raw or burnt : SIENNA
28
Old Nick : SATAN
29
___ de guerre : NOM
30
Penetrate : ENTER
32
Dope : SCHMO
36
"Sliding ___," Paul Simon song : AWAY
38
Wicked biblical city : SODOM
40
Of the dawn : EOAN
41
Sections often made of mica in old Rome : PANES
43
Pavarotti, e.g. : TENOR
45
Numero ___ : UNO
46
Change : ALTER
48
Start of Sarah Adams's well-known hymn : NEARER
50
"The Face on the ___ Floor" : BARROOM
53
Bees do it : STING
54
Microscopic animals : AMEBAE
55
Scrooge utterance : BAH
56
___ de France : ILE
58
Wherein the Balcony Scene occurs : SECONDACT
60
Mixed alcoholic drink : SMASH
62
Double preposition : INTO
63
___ 500 : INDY
64
Ballet ___ : RUSSE
65
Between Mont. and Minn. : NDAK
66
___-do-well : NEER
67
___ bridge (Euclidean proposition) : ASSES
Down
1
Tourist's need : MAP
2
Resembling a wing : ALAR
3
Armed civilian of 1776 : MINUTEMAN
4
"The ___ Cometh": O'Neill : ICEMAN
5
Sniggler's victim : EEL
6
Kind of knife : BOWIE
7
Mimicked : APED
8
___ de la Paix : RUE
9
"And I saw ___ the armies": Whitman : ASKANT
10
For which Rand got a hand : FANDANCE
11
Decorated again : REDID
12
Betel palm : ARECA
13
L.A. mayor in the 60's : YORTY
19
Icelandic literary works : EDDAS
21
Musial and Laurel : STANS
24
Weathercock dir. : NNE
25
Burr or Copland : AARON
26
Photo : SNAP
27
Harry Hershfield's home state : IOWA
28
Jewish feast : SEDER
31
Type of pole : TOTEM
33
What a Gay Nineties belle resembled : HOURGLASS
34
Simba's tresses : MANE
35
___ about : ONOR
37
School days' souvenir : YEARBOOK
39
Updike's "A ___ of Sundays" : MONTH
42
U.S. "ashcan" painter : SLOAN
44
King David ally : REI
47
Walked like a pigeon : TOEDIN
49
Hostility : ANIMUS
50
Washbowl : BASIN
51
Improve : AMEND
52
"Right on!" to Cicero : RECTA
53
Brown-winged butterfly : SATYR
55
A-F connection : BCDE
57
Existence : ESSE
59
Chemical suffix : ANE
60
Mrs., in Sevilla : SRA
61
Men : HES

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

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