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Johnson
Johnson

New York Times, Monday, February 11, 1980

5-Down : Oxen, bulls, etc.

Author:
Johnson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J K Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Johnson has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,052
Across
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Ancient : AGED
5
Mackerellike fish : CERO
9
Roe producer : SHAD
13
St. Paul's has one : DOME
14
Epochs upon epochs : AEONS
16
Where to see El Misti : PERU
17
Small boner : SLIP
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Footprint, e.g. : TRACE
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"___ Old Cowhand" : IMAN
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Now and then : FROMTIMETOTIME
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January event : SALE
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Foulard : TIE
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Kind of society : POLITE
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Early victim : ABEL
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Mortar beater : RAB
33
Select : ELITE
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Penitent one : RUER
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Source of leather : HIDE
36
Nothing to do : TIMEONONESHANDS
39
Enthusiastic : AVID
40
Uses chopsticks : EATS
41
Passageway : AISLE
42
"___ there be light" : LET
43
Barley beards : AWNS
44
Kind of Arab or car : STREET
45
Silly one : ASS
46
Out of ___ (not conforming) : STEP
47
See 14 Across : TIMEIMMEMORIAL
54
Sleep like ___ : ALOG
55
Certain fisherman : EELER
56
Black : EBON
58
Fairy : PERI
59
Lofty : NOBLE
60
Yield : CEDE
61
Letters : EXES
62
Volstead's opponents : WETS
63
Cut, as a film : EDIT
Down
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Some posters, e.g. : ADS
2
Hubert Green's forte : GOLF
3
Saudi V.I.P. : EMIR
4
Added to an account : DEPOSITED
5
Oxen, bulls, etc. : CATTLE
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Hair-raising : EERIE
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"Sadly I ___": Foster : ROAM
8
Story starter : ONCE
9
Malicious ill will : SPITE
10
Half: Comb. form : HEMI
11
Bulwer-Lytton's "Eugene ___" : ARAM
12
Negev mound : DUNE
15
Gordon and Irish : SETTERS
21
San ___, Calif. : MATEO
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Motor need : OIL
25
Corolla part : PETAL
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Popeye's gal : OLIVE
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55 m.p.h., e.g. : LIMIT
28
Relations : AUNTS
29
Apiary dwellers : BEES
30
Light wash : RINSE
31
Confuse : ADDLE
32
Harass : BESET
34
Equine color : ROAN
35
Toupee : HAIRPIECE
37
Greeley, Pyle et al. : NEWSMEN
38
Woman ___ (misogynist) : HATER
43
"___ was saying ... " : ASI
44
Business places : STORES
45
Shield of Zeus or Athena : AEGIS
46
Silvery food fish : SMELT
47
Strip broken by a sprinter : TAPE
48
Holly : ILEX
49
Humanist canonized in 1935 : MORE
50
Kitty's cry : MEOW
51
North Sea feeder : ELBE
52
In the sack : ABED
53
City in N.J. : LODI
57
After expenses : NET

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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