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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Friday, June 11, 1982

29-Down : Writer Sinclair

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { F J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry.
C. J. Angio has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,903
Across
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Actor from Petersburg, Va. : COTTEN
7
Patricia ___, actress who married 1 Across : MEDINA
13
Daughter of Polonius : OPHELIA
15
Stately court dances : PAVANES
16
Potsdam event: 1945 : MEETING
17
Tragedy by Euripides : ORESTES
18
Novelist Levin : IRA
19
Jones's prize in 1779 : SERAPIS
21
Noted British painter of birds : EDE
22
Fearless Fosdick's creator : CAPP
24
Runs the harvester : REAPS
25
Have ___ with (be privy to info) : ANIN
26
Devoured greedily : ATEUP
28
Homophone for air : ERE
29
Sports shocker : UPSET
30
Course for a class : LESSONS
32
Hats for some Caruso fans : TOPPERS
34
Sweetie pie : HON
35
Oceanic word in NATO : ATL
36
Puts away childish things : MATURES
40
Prepared a mackerel : BROILED
44
Emulate Jessica : ELOPE
45
Dish for a Lanai luau : POI
47
Netman Fraser : NEALE
48
What teasels raise : NAPS
49
Pencil wood : CEDAR
51
Casca inflicted one : STAB
52
"___ Blue?" : AMI
53
Romano and ricotta : CHEESES
55
Printers' org. : ITU
56
Having berries : COCCOID
58
Sights in Shaker Heights : ESTATES
60
Huge appetite : EDACITY
61
Casino distributors : DEALERS
62
"So Big" heroine : SELINA
63
Having lots of locks : TRESSY
Down
1
Like Buster Keaton : COMICAL
2
Run : OPERATE
3
"Tarzan and ___" : THEAPES
4
Hanoi holiday : TET
5
Site of first Olympics : ELIS
6
Forty-___ : NINER
7
He hit 61 home runs in '61 : MARIS
8
"___ Diary": Twain : EVES
9
Wagner's "___ Rheingold" : DAS
10
Vehement : INTENSE
11
More penurious : NEEDIER
12
Yeas and ayes : ASSENTS
14
Is in harmony with : AGREES
15
Valve in a gasoline engine : POPPET
20
Thun's stream : AAR
23
Certain exercises : PUSHUPS
25
Tries to fill an opening : APPLIES
27
"Perley" of journalism : POORE
29
Writer Sinclair : UPTON
31
Dir. from Tampa to Ocala : NNE
33
Row : OAR
36
Persons on P.O. posters : MENACES
37
Stylish : ALAMODE
38
Of current interest : TOPICAL
39
Like a cheetah : SPEEDY
40
Adjective for Bunker : BIASED
41
Varieties of lava : LATITES
42
Click beetles : ELATERS
43
"Printemps" composer : DEBUSSY
46
Sappho's "___ to Aphrodite" : ODE
49
Actress-dancer Rivera : CHITA
50
Button for a bowler : RESET
53
Nickel, for one : COIN
54
"___ Wars" : STAR
57
201 to Caesar : CCI
59
"Stingo" in Soho : ALE

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2 unique to this puzzle, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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