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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Saturday, February 2, 1980

45-Down : Popeye's hungry pal

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.25, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 306 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,043
Across
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Ostentation : POMP
5
Word before Judgment or Supper : LAST
9
D.S.O. designee : HERO
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Satan's delight : EVIL
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___-frutti : TUTTI
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Effluvium : ODOR
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"Look alive!" : GETAMOVEON
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Heap : PILE
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Fernando, Alfonso et al. : REYES
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Certain fertilizers : NITRATES
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Grub St. denizen : HACK
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Ring: Comb. form : CYCLO
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Diamond dealer : LAPIDARY
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Pertaining to a skin ailment : PSORIC
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Put up with : ABIDE
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Leak out slowly : OOZE
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Young Madrilenian : NINO
36
Ahab's or Lear's emotion : RAGE
37
Llamas' milieu : ANDES
38
Pant violently : GASP
39
Area east of the Urals : ASIA
40
___-do-well : NEER
41
Philippine timber trees : ACLES
42
Trumpeter's stage signal : SENNET
44
Adjective for an untouchable : LOWCASTE
46
Bob Hope sparkler : ADLIB
48
Rests : SITS
49
On deck : TOPSIDES
52
Painter compared with Bruegel : MOSES
55
It has a double-reed mouthpiece : OBOE
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Valued too highly : OVERPRIZED
59
Camaign verb in the 50's : LIKE
60
Chief Justice after Marshall : TANEY
61
Squirrel's nest : DRAY
62
Vichyssoise ingredient : LEEK
63
Within: Comb. form : ENTO
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Shade of blue : YALE
Down
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Fix prices : PEG
2
Word with time or throw : OVER
3
Particle : MITE
4
Practice a form of deception : PLAYHIDEANDSEEK
5
Schisgal drama: 1964 : LUV
6
Solar disk : ATEN
7
Stiff-upper-lip chap : STOIC
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Photos of yesteryear : TINTYPES
9
William Boyd role : HOPALONGCASSIDY
10
Forte of William Allen White : EDITORIALS
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Part : ROLE
12
Bauxite and stibnite : ORES
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Mario's beloved : TOSCA
17
General at Gettysburg : MEADE
21
British medical org. : RCS
23
Money in Copenhagen : KRONE
25
"___ Theme," movie song : LARAS
26
Humble : ABASE
27
Blind purchase : PIGINAPOKE
28
Alpine sound : YODEL
30
Atlas section : INSET
31
Thicket : COPSE
34
Kamikaze planes : ZEROS
37
Counteractive remedy : ANTIDOTE
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Olivier, for one : ACTOR
43
Samuel's teacher : ELI
45
Popeye's hungry pal : WIMPY
47
Aneurin of England: 1897-1960 : BEVAN
49
Turnpike payment : TOLL
50
Drama award : OBIE
51
Transported : SENT
53
Pound or Stone : EZRA
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Pinniped : SEAL
57
Erskine contemporary : REO
58
Red 1 or Blue 5 : DYE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 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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