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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Monday, December 25, 1978

63-Down : Sault ___ Marie

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F J K Q V X }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, 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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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,639
Across
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Wassail quaffs : ALES
5
"Bugs" or Max : BAER
9
Cuban cat : GATO
13
Quantity of cookies : BATCH
15
"God's Little ___" : ACRE
16
Soprano Grist : RERI
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Dickens classic : ACHRISTMASCAROL
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Give confidence to : ASSURE
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" ... One that inhabiteth ___": Isa. 57:15 : ETERNITY
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Titanic sinker : BERG
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United : ONED
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"Worm of the Nile" : ASP
28
Vichy trial town : RIOM
30
Sonoran's hot snack : TAMALE
34
Sounds from pom-pom girls : RAHS
36
Promote : ABET
38
Mount Vernon or Monticello : MANOR
39
Actor who played 62 Across : LIONELBARRYMORE
42
Insect: Comb. form : ENTOM
43
Synthetic spread : OLEO
44
Guinness : ALEC
45
Harriet Beecher's in-laws : STOWES
47
Hindu relative of Pluto : YAMA
49
A.F.B. in Colorado : ENT
50
Jane Fonda's Oscar-winning role in "Klute" : BREE
52
Keep ___ on : TABS
54
Inundating : DELUGING
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Heraclitus was one : IONIAN
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Marley's surviving partner : EBENEZERSCROOGE
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Cattle feed : BRAN
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Give out : EMIT
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Man of "sound mind" : TUNER
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Bennett or Martin : TONY
68
"Auld Lang ___" : SYNE
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Polynesian's food : TARO
Down
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Rhyme scheme : ABAA
2
Resinous substances : LACS
3
Suffixes for ordinal numbers : ETHS
4
Stunted tree : SCRUB
5
Night flier : BAT
6
Zenith : ACME
7
Muse with a lyre : ERATO
8
Take umbrage : RESENT
9
Family member : GRANDMAMA
10
Air: Comb. form : AERI
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Turkey ___ : TROT
12
Like mechanics' hands : OILY
14
Personnel chief : HIRER
18
"The Pickwick Papers," originally : SERIAL
19
Luscious : CREAMY
23
Clown in "The Merchant of Venice" : GOBBO
25
Van Gogh painted here : ARLES
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Mary or Joseph : SAINT
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Souvenir of a family gathering : PHOTO
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Farinaceous : MEALY
31
Lizard : ANOLE
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Ponti's spouse : LOREN
33
Rear : ERECT
35
Neophyte on the slopes : SNOWBUNNY
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Festive dinner, e.g. : TREAT
40
Leave a labyrinth : EMERGE
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Of modern Greece : ROMAIC
46
Nabs : SEIZES
48
Stop a space mission : ABORT
51
Herod, to the Jewish leaders : ENEMY
53
Feature that gave a Schnauzer its name : SNOUT
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I.o.u. cause : DEBT
55
Longest river entirely in Spain : EBRO
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Sprat's diet : LEAN
57
One way to "bear it" : GRIN
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One of the Inner Hebrides : IONA
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Dyeing apparatus : AGER
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Wolfe of whodunits : NERO
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Sault ___ Marie : STE

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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