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Jim Modney
Jim Modney

New York Times, Thursday, September 4, 1980

1-Across : When day meets night

Author:
Jim Modney
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 2, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Jim Modney has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,258
Across
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When day meets night : DUSK
5
Round pod : BOLL
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Engrave : ETCH
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This, in Toledo : ESTA
14
Drug or heartwood : ALOES
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Half a child's toy : CHOO
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Word with red or sugar : BEET
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Cow catcher : RIATA
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Crooner Columbo: 1908-34 : RUSS
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Ideas generated by two-track minds? : TRAINSOFTHOUGHT
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Fuse : SMELT
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Novelist Haggard's title : SIR
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One place to catch a rapido at a stazione : ROMA
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Adverb applying to a caboose : BEHIND
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Call at a station : ALLABOARD
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Brown of songdom : LEROY
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What daydreamers gather : WOOL
40
State flower of N.H. : LILAC
42
Speck : MOTE
43
Now and then: Abbr. : OCCAS
45
Got off a Pullman : DETRAINED
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Big name in toy trains : LIONEL
49
European industrial area : SAAR
50
"Mamma ___!" : MIA
52
Place for a bust : NICHE
56
Monopoly industry? : READINGRAILROAD
63
Word with Minor or Major : URSA
64
Col. Tibbets's mother, ___ Gay : ENOLA
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Hence : ERGO
66
Air : MIEN
67
Terminal : DEPOT
68
"___ Death": Grieg : ASES
69
Crest : PEAK
70
Cloy : SATE
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Pond, in poesy : MERE
Down
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Loan, e.g. : DEBT
2
Employers : USERS
3
Power for some trains : STEAM
4
Porter's "___ Went to Haiti": 1939 : KATIE
5
Perch in a club car : BARSTOOL
6
Miscellany : OLIO
7
Take it easy : LOAF
8
Eastern Europeans : LETTS
9
Yellowish brown : ECRU
10
Ruffian : THUG
11
Blackjack, in Soho : COSH
12
Large number : HOST
15
Master, in New Delhi : SAHIB
21
Govt. agency established in 1935 : NLRB
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Turgenev's birthplace : OREL
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___ of honor : MAID
27
Site of Van Gogh's bridge : ARLES
29
Prefix with sphere : HEMI
30
With 54 Down, nickname for an engine : IRON
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Renown : NOTE
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Recolored : DYED
33
Off base sans a pass : AWOL
34
Areas : LOCI
35
Word form with motive : LOCO
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King often seen at Vegas : ALAN
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Information : DATA
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Having a skull : CRANIATE
44
Prefix with conductor or trailer : SEMI
46
Seed covering : ARIL
48
Bordered : LINED
51
Actress Moorehead: 1906-74 : AGNES
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Elite : CREAM
54
See 30 Down : HORSE
55
Avid : EAGER
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___ Parliament: 17th century : RUMP
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Railroad guided by Jay Gould : ERIE
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Sailing down to Rio : ASEA
59
Cold and wet : DANK
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Clothing, in Madrid : ROPA
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"Thanks ___!" : ALOT
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Medicinal measure : DOSE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 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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