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Alfio Micci
Alfio Micci

New York Times, Monday, September 26, 1983

40-Across : Did electrical work

Author:
Alfio Micci
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Alfio Micci has 91 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 11 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,375
Across
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Basso Italo : TAJO
5
Composer Sir Edward : ELGAR
10
Crooked : AWRY
14
Repute : ODOR
15
Ostentatious; fanciful : VIEWY
16
Part of R.S.V.P. : VOUS
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Okinawan port : NAHA
18
Romberg's "One ___" : ALONE
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"Winnie ___ Pu" : ILLE
20
Corrida protagonist : MATADOR
22
Cookie : WAFER
23
African river : NILE
24
Open-mouthed : GAPING
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Went by birchbark : CANOED
29
Malefic : EVIL
30
Burrows : ABE
33
Oise feeder : AISNE
34
In the works : AFOOT
35
Thread: Comb. form : NEM
36
Oct. 15, in old Rome : IDES
37
Singer Bobby: 1936-73 : DARIN
38
Look longingly : OGLE
39
Johnny ___ : REB
40
Did electrical work : WIRED
41
Intelligence : BRAIN
42
Seraglio room : ODA
43
"And giving ___, up the chimney ... " : ANOD
44
Disabled : MAIMED
45
Unclouded : SERENE
47
Olive for Olivia : OLEA
48
Eucharistic plate : PATEN
50
Prods the memory : REMINDS
53
Salute : HAIL
54
Porter's "Katie Went to ___" : HAITI
56
___ off (sore) : TEED
58
Dies ___ : IRAE
59
C.P.A.'s : ACCTS
60
Effluence : AURA
61
Impart : LEND
62
Dogpatch surname : YOKUM
63
W.W. II vessels : LSTS
Down
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Colliery unit : TON
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Bede or West : ADAM
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4
Ciceronian deliveries : ORATIONS
5
Got away from : EVADED
6
Star of "Can-Can" : LILO
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Grain beard : AWN
9
Bread or spirits : RYE
10
Ornithological : AVIAN
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Precept : RULE
13
Flanders river : YSER
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Nautical position : ALEE
22
Droop : WILT
25
Shun : AVOID
26
Nuclear particle : PION
27
City on the Ohio : CAIRO
28
Lent a hand : AIDED
31
Falsify : BELIE
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Correct : EMEND
34
Copland : AARON
37
Eat in style : DINE
38
Rug type : ORIENTAL
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Alert : WARN
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"___ Ha'i" : BALI
44
Philip Wylie subject : MOMISM
46
Fished for morays : EELED
48
Silvers : PHIL
49
Swiss stream : AARE
51
Famous next-to-last words : ETTU
52
Painter José Maria : SERT
54
Fodder : HAY
55
Famed French explorer : ACO
57
"___ Rheingold" : DAS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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