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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Thursday, March 6, 1980

2-Down : Certain piers

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
C. J. Angio has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,076
Across
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Clark or Marsh : MAE
4
Azan's mother : ERATO
9
Box cautiously : SPAR
13
Philosopher proscribed by the Vatican : KANT
14
Holy Grail, e.g. : RELIC
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___ Alto : PALO
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Hard, lustrous coal : ANTHRACITE
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Mars, to Menelaus : ARES
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Wild grapevine : LIANA
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"Gil ___" : BLAS
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Chopper : AXE
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Medical school offerings : BASICSCIENCES
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Wainscot : CEIL
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Delight in cruelty : SADISM
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One of the Pennines : ALP
34
Winnow : SIFT
37
What 29 Down is : RATIO
38
Where the price is light : BARGAINBASEMENT
42
Running wild : ARIOT
43
Reproachful remark : GIBE
44
Court unit : SET
45
River in S.C. : SANTEE
47
Corn product : OLEO
50
Embarrassed, as a runner on the diamond : CAUGHTOFFBASE
56
Enjoy Jay Peak, Vt. : SKI
58
Indonesian boat : PROA
59
Stewpots : OLLAS
60
Kind of measure : TAPE
62
Retinues : ENTOURAGES
65
Vivacity : ELAN
66
Joins with stitches : SEAMS
67
Part of a harrow : TINE
68
Tuesday out of N.Y.C. : WELD
69
Its capital is Damascus : SYRIA
70
Ames and Asner : EDS
Down
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Craze : MANIA
2
Certain piers : ANTAS
3
Of a culture group : ETHNIC
4
Cycle : ERA
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___ room (play area) : REC
6
Court excuse : ALIBI
7
Championship : TITLE
8
Immense expanses : OCEANS
9
Colorado Springs, e.g. : SPA
10
Hangers-on : PARASITES
11
Comfort or Karras : ALEX
12
Compass card : ROSE
13
Commentator Marvin : KALB
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Caucasian, for one : RACE
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Cause goose pimples : SCARE
24
Cuban's "Certainly!" : SISI
25
What some vines do : CLING
26
Cheese from abroad : EDAM
29
Trig term : SINE
30
Cluster of trees, in the West : MOTT
31
Robes made from goat's hair : ABAS
32
Composer of "Granada": 1932 : LARA
33
Chief : PRINCIPAL
35
Crime-fighting agcy. : FBI
36
Conventional prohibition : TABOO
39
"I've ___ Gal in Kalamazoo": 1942 : GOTA
40
Consumed greedily : ATEUP
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Core of solipsism : SELF
46
Way out : EGRESS
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___ effort : EFOR
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Child dedicated to religious life : OBLATE
51
Cutie pie : HONEY
52
Crimean dweller : TATAR
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Cold : ALGID
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Composer Saint-___ : SAENS
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Cicero's "to be" : ESSE
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Chili con carne : STEW
57
Colewort : KALE
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Conclude : END
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Japanese lake : OMI
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Columbia: Abbr. : USA

Answer summary:
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