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Jim Modney
Jim Modney

New York Times, Friday, March 20, 1981

52-Down : Open

Author:
Jim Modney
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F X }, Scrabble score: 344 (avg 1.82)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Jim Modney has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,455
Across
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Triangular sails : JIBS
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Reindeer herdsmen of the North : LAPPS
10
___ tube : BOOB
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Quarrelsome : UGLY
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Bathsheba's first mate : URIAH
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A people of Nicaragua and Honduras : ULVA
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Daydream or dawdle : MOON
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Model T's, to flappers : TINLIZZIES
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Urged on : PRODDED
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Change the allowable land use : REZONE
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"___ Irae" : DIES
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River in Moldavia : PUTNA
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Creator of Leopold Bloom : JOYCE
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Townsman : CIT
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Wreaths atop knights : ORLES
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Word with strong or straight : ARM
34
Award, often : PLAQUE
37
"Persistence of Memory" painter : DALI
38
Deg. for a future tycoon, perhaps : MBA
39
Space-vehicle boosters : SATURNS
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Sharp turn : ZIG
42
Hibernia, to a Gael : EIRE
44
He lowered the boom in an old song : CLANCY
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Hither's partner : YON
46
Mode : STYLE
48
Statehouse winners : INS
49
Slumbers : RESTS
51
Heaviest or hardest part : BRUNT
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Pip : LULU
54
Abut : ADJOIN
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Lay calm and quiet : REPOSED
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Baked apple pudding : BROWNBETTY
63
Symbol of false friendship : IAGO
64
The sea of Galilee, e.g. : LAKE
65
Red as ___ : ABEET
66
Kind of dragon or turtle : SNAP
67
Having peepers : EYED
68
Pee Wee of baseball fame : REESE
69
He was freer than a theow : ESNE
Down
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Ambush : JUMP
2
Mad scientist's aide : IGOR
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Cocktail : BLOODYMARY
4
University agent : SYNDIC
5
Trichords, e.g. : LUTES
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Nonproductive : ARID
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Golfer's target : PIN
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Intimate : PAL
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Plunger's potential loss : SHIRT
10
Rapacious person : BUZZARD
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Miscellany : OLIO
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Where one's goose is cooked : OVEN
13
Evil : BASE
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___ of Citium, Greek philosopher : ZENO
21
Ocean troughs : DEEPS
24
Stimulating : PIQUANT
25
No-nos on one-way streets : UTURNS
26
New York was named for him, before he became king : JAMES
27
Space path : ORBIT
28
Famed painter of American Indians: 1796-1872 : CATLIN
30
Dining-room gadgets : LAZYSUSANS
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Creator of J. Alfred Prufrock : ELIOT
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Indications : SIGNS
35
Fond du ___, Wis. : LAC
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Ref. book : ENC
40
Vermont product : SYRUP
43
Jostled : ELBOWED
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Hibernia, to a poet : ERIN
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Hurricane that wrecked Puerto Rico: Sept. 1975 : ELOISE
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Open : UNBAR
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Gulf in the Philippines : LEYTE
54
Start of a well-known palindrome : ABLE
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Squirrel's nest : DRAY
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Laughing matter : JOKE
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Hwys. : RTES
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Actor Richard from San Francisco : EGAN
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Lamebrain : DOPE
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Noted German architect: 1834-1916 : EBE
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Kickoff gadget : TEE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 4 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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