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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Friday, February 8, 1980

7-Down : Metalworkers

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.24, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
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. 11,049
Across
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Chatter : TALK
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Edmund of old films : LOWE
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Father of Leah and Rachel : LABAN
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An Alda : ALAN
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Yoked beasts : OXEN
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Speechify : ORATE
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Have one's revenge at last : PAYOFFOLDSCORES
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Sonnet stanza : SESTET
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Sen. Baker's in-laws : DIRKSENS
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Suffix denoting nativity : ITE
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Update : REVISE
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Gene Kelly stage role: 1940 : JOEY
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Like some coins : RARE
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Certain Spanish art : MIROS
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Unit of energy : ERG
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Fires : CANS
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Wretchedness, in Tours : MISERE
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Everlasting : AGELONG
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Seaport now known as Jakarta : BATAVIA
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Swimming : NATANT
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___ Low, N.Y.C. mayor: 1901-3 : SETH
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Cusk ___ : EEL
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Stall sound : SNORT
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"___! poor Yorick" : ALAS
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"___ Well ... " : ALLS
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Adjusted : GEARED
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Santa ___, city in Calif. : ANA
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Bahr al Azraq : BLUENILE
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Martha Washington's first husband : CUSTIS
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Go at tremendous speed : OUTSTRIPTHEWIND
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Beethoven's "Für ___" : ELISE
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Father : SIRE
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Ipecac source : EVEA
57
Held sway : RULED
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In a ___ (vexed) : SNIT
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Smell like a stogie : REEK
Down
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Bugle call : TAPS
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Wings : ALAE
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Use Agamemnon's strategy at Troy : LAYSIEGETO
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Like some pines : KNOTTY
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Hay follower : LOFT
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Chemist's ___ process : OXO
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Metalworkers : WELDERS
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Salad ingredient : ENDIVE
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Linus Yale was one : LOCKSMITH
10
Part of a Stein line : AROSEISA
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Word with back or foot : BARE
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Solar disk : ATEN
13
Loch that has people keyed up : NESS
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Fixed charge : FEE
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Title in Delhi : SRI
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Tolled : RANG
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Informal apparel : JEANS
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Heart, for one : ORGAN
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Rave's companion : RANT
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Disclosing : REVELATIVE
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Bay window : ORIEL
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Phocids : SEALS
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"___ wi' little ... ": Burns : CONTENTED
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Equipment for grapplers : MATS
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Generosity : LARGESSE
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One on a string : BEAD
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Kind of maid : SLEEPIN
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Oscar winner: 1929-30 : ARLISS
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Retort : ANSWER
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Ventilate : AIR
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Poet Hartmann von ___ : AUE
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Oom Paul Kruger, for one : BOER
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Comic-strip tot : LULU
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Gas co. : UTIL
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President Arthur's nickname : CHET
50
Arrow poison : INEE
51
Neb. neighbor : SDAK
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Quadri minus one : TRI

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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