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Johnson
Johnson

New York Times, Friday, August 26, 1977

1-Down : Macbeth's place

Author:
Johnson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
Johnson has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,240
Across
1
Assign parts : CAST
5
Celebration, as for St. Rocco : FESTA
10
Nursery-rhyme trio : MICE
14
Court ace : ASHE
15
Like the Dolomites : ALPEN
16
In a while : ANON
17
Noncommittal on an issue : STRADDLING
19
Not tantamount to a catamount : TAME
20
"Valse ___," by Sibelius : TRISTE
21
Poe's "Annabel ___" : LEE
22
Swinger in the jungle : APE
23
Places where splits may occur : LANES
24
Extreme : ULTRA
26
Gracie Mansion name : ABE
28
Where the cornea is : EYE
29
D.D.E. et al. : IKES
30
Mother of Perseus : DANAE
32
Furthered : AIDED
34
Drivers of paddy wagons : POLICE
35
Shifts responsibility to another : PASSESTHEBUCK
38
Doddering : SENILE
39
Group around a male fur seal : HAREM
40
Dye in a beauty shop : HENNA
41
Trapper's trophy : PELT
42
Half of CDX : CCV
45
Victorian or Napoleonic : ERA
46
Perhaps : MAYBE
48
"Positive Thinking" exponent : PEALE
50
Degree for an att. : LLB
52
Suffix with Adam or Edom : ITE
53
Heisman Trophy winner: 1940 : HARMON
54
Rabin's predecessor : MEIR
55
Most curvaceous : SHAPELIEST
57
Between sum and fui : ESSE
58
Party who avoids parties : LONER
59
Cheyenne's relative : CREE
60
Galileo was one: Abbr. : ASTR
61
Follow : ENSUE
62
Far from flabby : HARD
Down
1
Macbeth's place : CASTLE
2
Off the path : ASTRAY
3
Cooperstown's Hall of Fame, e.g. : SHRINE
4
Goad : TEASE
5
Pass the peak : FADE
6
Wing : ELL
7
Blabbed : SPILLEDTHEBEANS
8
Doctrines : TENETS
9
Fury : ANGER
10
Spy name : MATA
11
Terrified : INAPANIC
12
"___ to Erin" (folk song) : COMEBACK
13
Chemical suffix : ENE
18
"Pink-elephants" producer, for short : DTS
24
Maui music makers : UKES
25
Desert clay : ADOBE
27
Shoe size : EEE
29
___ fixe : IDEE
31
Styptic : ALUM
32
"A ___ Able" : ASIN
33
Moslem faith : ISLAM
34
Bold : PERT
35
Incomparable : PEERLESS
36
Historian of a sort : ANNALIST
37
Spy name : HALE
38
Haggard novel : SHE
41
Boa or anaconda : PYTHON
42
Funt's funmaker : CAMERA
43
Not so far apart : CLOSER
44
Aired : VENTED
47
Bridal path : AISLE
48
Buddy : PAL
49
Author Segal : ERICH
51
Rabbit or Fox : BRER
53
In this spot : HERE
54
___ culpa : MEA
56
Little, in Lyon : PEU

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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