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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Friday, January 1, 1982

30-Down : Does some baby-sitting

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
C. J. Angio has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,742
Across
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Truncates : LOPS
5
Hepburn role : COCO
9
"The best is yet ___": Browning : TOBE
13
A first name in Orel : IVAN
14
Pigment for J. M. W. Turner : OCHRE
16
"Un bel di," e.g. : ARIA
17
Commitment often made on Jan. 1 : RESOLUTION
19
Wolfe's stonecutter : GANT
20
Heeded an R.S.V.P. : ANSWERED
21
What some polls reveal : TRENDS
23
This is broken after Communion : FAST
24
"Quickly, ___ me a beaker of wine ... ": Aristophanes : BRING
25
Penny ___ : ARCADE
28
Most imposing : GRANDEST
31
Carols : NOELS
32
Up and ___ : DOING
33
Mason ___ : BEE
34
What bells do : TOLL
35
Noted French Egyptologist: 1868-1938 : MORET
36
Go to ___ (carouse) : TOWN
37
Chemical suffix : ENE
38
Vehicle for Tom Mix : OATER
39
Cut a lawn : MOWED
40
Alit from an SST : DEBARKED
42
Associations for mutual aid : GUILDS
43
Prevailed : RULED
44
Jung or Sagan : CARL
45
Sideboard display : TEASET
47
Lowering : DEBASING
51
Fragments from feasts : ORTS
52
He gives a toot : HORNBLOWER
54
Frenchman's "Help!" : AMOI
55
Take sound off a tape : ERASE
56
Fen footing : MIRE
57
Bell the cat : DARE
58
Word with ox or owl : EYED
59
A grandson of Eve : ENOS
Down
1
Coin of Ankara : LIRA
2
Dutch ___ : OVEN
3
Jaworski "bomb" : PASS
4
Lowell's "The First ___" : SNOWFALL
5
What 1981 has run : COURSE
6
Choral group : OCTET
7
Scolded : CHID
8
Coronado's quest : ORO
9
Oddment : TAGEND
10
Jan. 1 event : ORANGEBOWL
11
Hogtie : BIND
12
What to "come and get" : EATS
15
Competitor : ENTRANT
18
Is first : LEADS
22
"___ in the new!" : RING
24
Pipe : BRIER
25
Chipped in a chip : ANTED
26
ABC's Arledge : ROONE
27
One at Times Square on New Year's Eve : CELEBRATOR
28
Caught the matador : GORED
29
Emulated Dorcas : SEWED
30
Does some baby-sitting : TENDS
32
Loved not wisely but too well : DOTED
35
"___ World Go Away," hit song : MAKETHE
36
Laborious : TOILSOME
38
Wreath atop Lancelot : ORLE
39
Orozco opus : MURAL
41
Down Under native : AUSSIE
42
Chewed the fat : GABBED
44
Use a thurible : CENSE
45
Salamander's relative : TOAD
46
Author Bombeck : ERMA
47
Sturdy cart : DRAY
48
"Heads, ___, tails, you lose" : IWIN
49
Character in Jonson's "Sejanus" : NERO
50
Decorative stoneware : GRES
53
Cassiterite, e.g. : ORE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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