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Madura
Madura

New York Times, Thursday, September 25, 1980

53-Across : Respond to Steve Martin

Author:
Madura
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Madura has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,279
Across
1
Hardens : SETS
5
Inspired with fear : AWED
9
Linage : SPACE
14
Fit accurately : TRUE
15
Jetty : MOLE
16
Long poem about a war : ILIAD
17
Wiles : ARTS
18
British tenor : PETERPEARS
20
Rosters : ROTAS
22
Siouan : OMAHA
23
Modern sailing vessel : TRIMARAN
26
Central veins of leaves : COSTAE
30
Celebrated : FETED
31
Noted violinist : MENUHIN
32
Patriotic org. : SAR
34
Jubilant : ELATED
36
Work over : REDO
37
Support : TRUSS
39
Game winner's cry : GIN
40
Medieval stringed instrument : REBEC
41
Bridge position, in Barcelona : ESTE
42
Reeve or peahen : FEMALE
44
Suffix with buck or puck : ISH
45
Dishes like vichyssoise : POTAGES
47
Tram sound : CLANG
49
Ambushed, in a way : SNIPED
50
Early losers at Saratoga : REDCOATS
53
Respond to Steve Martin : LAUGH
55
Subject : TOPIC
56
Images in a Clement Moore poem : SUGARPLUMS
61
Graf ___ : SPEE
62
Empty : INANE
63
Vent : EMIT
64
Biblical judge : ELON
65
Trifled (with) : TOYED
66
Jet black : EBON
67
Depression : DENT
Down
1
Jerk or jump : START
2
Eraser's target : ERROR
3
Gustatory mélange : TUTTIFRUTTI
4
Oil-yielding seed, for cookery : SESAME
5
Elec. unit : AMP
6
Misfortune : WOE
7
John from Middlesex : ELTON
8
Rate : DEEM
9
Suction device : SIPHON
10
Sybarite's goal : PLEASURE
11
Home designers' org. : AIA
12
Gondola, e.g. : CAR
13
Workers on MSS. : EDS
19
What Kelso did well : RACED
21
Fills : SATES
24
Bro. or dau. : REL
25
Saws : ADAGES
27
Gotham : THEBIGAPPLE
28
Executive secretaries : AIDES
29
Tennyson's "___ Arden" : ENOCH
31
Threat : MENACE
32
Stages : STEPS
33
Pyromaniac's delight : ARSON
35
Actor Holt: 1918-73 : TIM
38
Pontooned transport : SEAPLANE
40
Voluntary emergency CB org. : REACT
42
Totally disgusted : FEDUP
43
Law degree : LLD
46
Like an automobile transmission : GEARED
48
Ensnared : NOOSED
50
Compass point : RHUMB
51
Fasten : TIEON
52
Perfume : SCENT
54
Kind of club : GLEE
56
Command to Fido : SIT
57
A special número : UNO
58
Cheerful : GAY
59
"Winterset" hero : MIO
60
Union, in D.C., for one : STN

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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