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Johnson
Johnson

New York Times, Monday, September 22, 1980

34-Across : "I am ___ conventional dither"

Author:
Johnson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
Johnson has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,276
Across
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Jade : TIRE
5
Get out! : SCAT
9
___ in the wood : AGED
13
Product of imagination : IDEA
14
Sky hunter : ORION
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Stall : LOGE
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Former Manhattan sight : ELEVATEDRAILWAY
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Drafted G.I. : SELECTEE
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Drifts : TRENDS
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Scatter for drying : TED
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Mast support : STAY
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" ... lonely as ___": Wordsworth : ACLOUD
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Type of coat or check : RAIN
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Letters after letters : PSS
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Eyelashes : CILIA
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Coral Gables's county : DADE
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"I am ___ conventional dither" : INA
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Former Manhattan sights : TROLLEYCARLINES
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Wintry weather word : ICY
40
Proper : MEET
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Stakes : ANTES
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One of Edward's nicknames : NED
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U.S. V.I., e.g. : TERR
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Relativity, for one : THEORY
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Kin of gobs : TARS
46
Branco or Grande : RIO
47
Questions : ISSUES
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Give fresh life to : RECREATE
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Former Manhattan sight : DOUBLEDECKERBUS
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One of five bodies of water : ERIE
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Of a royal domain : DUCAL
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Observed : SEEN
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Tennis units : SETS
61
Gull : DUPE
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Cicero's "to be" : ESSE
Down
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Joins : TIES
2
Run in neutral gear : IDLE
3
Virginia ___ : REEL
4
Overhang : EAVE
5
Stupefied : SOTTED
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Belief : CREED
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Washington, to Braddock : AIDE
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Rocky crag : TOR
9
Place for pins : ALLEY
10
Cap's partner : GOWN
11
Minced oath : EGAD
12
One-time rulers of Tunis : DEYS
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More dapper : NATTIER
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Far from fantastic : ACTUAL
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Khomeini's land : IRAN
23
Chief Cairene : SADAT
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" ... ___ the living Present!": Longfellow : ACTIN
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Island sorceress : CIRCE
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Harold of silents : LLOYD
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Olive or crude follower : OIL
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Bobby Unser, e.g. : RACER
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Piebald : PINTO
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Scoff : SNEER
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Impudent : SASSY
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Textile workers : DYERS
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Rising above the surface : EMERSED
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City NW of Delhi : LAHORE
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Chemical ending : INE
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Oriental weight : TAEL
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Please : TICKLE
45
Toothpaste containers : TUBES
46
Summarize, for short : RECAP
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Warning word to Caesar : IDES
48
Disgruntled : SORE
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Diamonds, e.g. : SUIT
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Parisian's receipt : RECU
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Gaelic : ERSE
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Beame and Fortas : ABES
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Day named for a god of war: Abbr. : TUES
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Early domestic : ESNE
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Flat failure : DUD

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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