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A. J. Santora
A. J. Santora

New York Times, Thursday, July 4, 1985

47-Across : More of the song

Author:
A. J. Santora
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
A. J. Santora has 185 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 68 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,022
Across
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Defect : FLAW
5
S.A. country : ARG
8
Groove : SLOT
12
Knobby of Joe Palooka strip : WALSH
13
Actor Gorcey : LEO
14
Bob of U.S.O. fame : HOPE
15
Dejected : MOROSE
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Map abbr. : ISL
17
Kind of hygiene : ORAL
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Start of a patriotic song : IMAYANKEEDOODLE
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Song: Part II : DANDY
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Start a paragraph : INDENT
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Not Dem. or Rep. : IND
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Tidies : CLEANS
25
Latin I word : AMO
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Panorama : SCENE
30
Wind a rod after a bite : REELIN
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The George ___ : MCOHANS
35
Bargain : CUTRATE
36
Hate : DETEST
37
Light raft : BALSA
38
Hardened : SET
39
Job security : TENURE
41
Give ___ try : ITA
44
Hemingway : ERNEST
45
"No ___ an island": Donne : MANIS
47
More of the song : BORNONTHEFOURTH
51
Congregation word : AMEN
52
Ending for Jersey : ITE
53
Still more of the song : OFJULY
54
Bill of bites? : MENU
55
Kind of American : ALL
56
Helpful : OFUSE
57
Opposed : ANTI
58
Bandleader Brown : LES
59
Sheer nonsense : TOSH
Down
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___ wide (extensively) : FARAND
2
Actor Nolan : LLOYD
3
Test : ASSAY
4
Declaration starter : WHEN
5
New owner, in law : ALIENEE
6
Mignonette : RESEDA
7
"Do unto others ... " : GOLDENRULE
8
Discharge a musket : SHOOT
9
Olivier is one : LORD
10
Gemstone : OPAL
11
Part of TV : TELE
12
Helen Reddy's "I Am ___" : WOMAN
15
South of France : MIDI
19
Drying ovens : KILNS
20
Attacks : ONSETS
24
1876, e.g. : CENTENNIAL
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Part of the U.S.A. : ALA
26
Cambridge inst. : MIT
27
"___ if by land ... " : ONE
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Pronoun for Old Ironsides : SHE
29
His orientation came in Oriente : CASTRO
31
Monroe's ___ of Good Feeling : ERA
32
A.M.A. people : MDS
33
So-so mark : CEE
34
Mel of Cooperstown : OTT
35
Word before blanche : CARTE
37
Large amounts : BUSHELS
40
Irritate : NETTLE
41
Implosion : INRUSH
42
Championship : TITLE
43
Pale : ASHY
44
Boredom : ENNUI
45
Soprano Anna : MOFFO
46
Cookery term : AUJUS
47
Crimson Tide : BAMA
48
Portent : OMEN
49
Lease : RENT
50
Kind of soldier : FOOT

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

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