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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Thursday, March 20, 1980

1-Down : "___ in soft Lydian airs": Milton

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
C. J. Angio has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,090
Across
1
R.P.I. room : LAB
4
Play or pass : ENACT
9
Pot money : ANTE
13
Fodder plant : TARE
14
Eastern peninsula : KOREA
15
Come down in buckets : POUR
16
Expression heard on March 20 : SPRINGHASSPRUNG
19
Friendly fellows from Fajardo : AMIGOS
20
Queues in the news in 1979 : GASLINES
21
Button on an alley : RESET
22
Relative of a hornpipe : REEL
23
Shipment from Ga. : TALC
27
Person at the bar : LAWYER
31
The British Government : WHITEHALL
36
Fulcrum on a dory : THOLE
37
Court a potential frat member : RUSH
38
Author Nin : ANAIS
40
Clinton's canal : ERIE
41
Tramontane : ALIEN
43
"Call to ___": A. E. Stevenson : GREATNESS
45
Adjudicate : PASSON
47
"___ star to steeer her by": Masefield : ANDA
48
Fall with a flat sound : PLAP
50
Tosca's tragic lover : MARIO
55
Affronted : OUTRAGED
59
Took a leap : SPRANG
60
Sporting dog : SPRINGERSPANIEL
62
Have ___ for (hold a grudge) : ITIN
63
City near Lisbon : EVORA
64
Dictator's phrase : INRE
65
Mendelssohn's "Spring ___" : SONG
66
Busman's destination : DEPOT
67
Erhard's therapy : EST
Down
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"___ in soft Lydian airs": Milton : LAPME
2
V-shaped roof gutter : ARRIS
3
Neutral color : BEIGE
4
Clues for cardiologists : EKGS
5
Ezra Pound book : NOH
6
Berlin's "He's ___ Picker" : ARAG
7
Composer Franck : CESAR
8
Mortarboard attachment : TASSEL
9
"Men are ___ they woo": Shak. : APRILWHEN
10
Spring, sometimes : NOUN
11
"April Love" is one : TUNE
12
Units in the cgs system : ERGS
13
Weill's "The ___ Has His Photograph Taken" : TSAR
17
Night, in Napoli : NOTTE
18
Accordion item : PLEAT
24
"Eureka!" : AHA
25
Director Fritz : LANG
26
___ Maass, nurse on a 13¢ stamp : CLARA
28
Ye olde days : YORE
29
Ivy League team : ELIS
30
Female sandpipers : REES
31
Stole : WRAP
32
Mimetic dance : HULA
33
Goddess wearing cow's horns : ISIS
34
"The year's at ___": Browning : THESPRING
35
Mortgage : LIEN
39
Elegiac : SAD
42
Jeanette or Lloyd : NOLAN
44
Cigar-making center in Fla. : TAMPA
46
Acted like Xanthippe : NAGGED
49
Irritate : PEEVE
51
Contemporary of Slammin' Sam : ARNIE
52
Aids for the darling buds : RAINS
53
Exanimate : INERT
54
Watch the girls go by : OGLE
55
Medical suffix : OSIS
56
Incumbent on : UPTO
57
One of triplets : TRIN
58
Minute part of 52 Down : DROP
59
Tiff : SPAT
61
Sign that makes angels glow : SRO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 6 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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