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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Wednesday, March 26, 1980

23-Across : Provokes anger

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,096
Across
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Sink part : PIPE
5
___ Island, N.Y. : CONEY
10
Performer's favorite sound : CLAP
14
"God's Little ___" : ACRE
15
Without company : ALONE
16
___ Christian Andersen : HANS
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Rome airport : LEONARDODAVINCI
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Women's service org. : ORT
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Chili ingredient : BEAN
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Tall and thin : REEDY
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Provokes anger : RILES
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Open an envelope : SLIT
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What soda is to Scotch : CHASER
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Least sincere : PHONIEST
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Sprint : RACE
33
Full of salt : BRINY
34
Marriage contract word : NEE
35
Italian family : ESTE
36
Catapulted : SLUNG
37
Diminutive suffix : ETTE
38
W.W. II theater : ETO
39
Empty-headed : INANE
40
"Younger ___ Springtime" : THAN
41
Pleasure garden : PARADISE
43
Wiseacre : SMARTY
45
Political leaning : LEFT
46
Stone memorial : STELA
47
Hard work : SWEAT
49
Timetable abbrs. : ETAS
50
Captain's diary : LOG
53
Paris airport : CHARLESDEGAULLE
56
Sword part : HILT
57
Adoree of silents : RENEE
58
What little children should be : SEEN
59
Currier's partner : IVES
60
Turf : SWARD
61
Brink : EDGE
Down
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___ Alto, Calif. : PALO
2
Champagne bucket : ICER
3
Angle plotter : PROTRACTOR
4
Dusk, to poets : EEN
5
Go headlong at top speed : CAREER
6
As ___ the hills : OLDAS
7
Zenith time : NOON
8
Player who may be tight : END
9
Lasting 12 months : YEARLONG
10
Abruzzi town or province : CHIETI
11
Ship's eventual destination : LAND
12
Noun suffix : ANCY
13
Before omega : PSI
18
Ready, willing and ___ : ABLE
19
Like some leaves : VEINY
24
Words of understanding : ISEE
25
Spruce up shoes : SHINE
26
Emulate Swee' Pea : CREEP
27
___ la vista : HASTA
28
Trim vines : PRUNE
29
What Svengali did : ENTHRALLED
30
Attack : SETAT
31
Very small : TEENY
33
TNT sound : BLAST
36
Goblets for brandy : SNIFTERS
37
Relative of etc. : ETAL
39
Utopian : IDEAL
42
Puts on guard : ALERTS
43
Put on Broadway : STAGED
44
Hill of sorts : MESA
46
Take the helm : STEER
47
Gat's sharp cousin : SHIV
48
Ridge : WALE
49
Poet Millay : EDNA
51
One of the Cassinis : OLEG
52
Kelly or Tunney : GENE
53
Mayor Byrne's city, for short : CHI
54
Emulate Dorcas : SEW
55
"How ___ doth breed a habit ... ": Shak. : USE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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