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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Friday, August 28, 1981

4-Down : Unrelated

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 304 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 11, XRef: 2, 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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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,616
Across
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Sort of a sortie : RAID
5
Thurber's "The Owl in the ___" : ATTIC
10
Interlocution : CHAT
14
___ spumante : ASTI
15
Gandhi's garb : DHOTI
16
Turkish liqueur : RAKI
17
With 52 Across, a critical review : THISHORRORMOVIE
20
Swoons : SYNCOPES
21
Flick : CINEMA
22
Scold : RATE
23
Undiluted : PURE
24
Men carrying symbols of authority : MACERS
27
Willie Loman, e.g. : SALESMAN
31
Adjective for ants and aphids : ALATE
32
Cremona creation, for short : STRAD
33
Basil ___, noted painter of birds : EDE
34
An early invader of Britain : DANE
35
Filmy : SHEER
36
Target of Mariner IV : MARS
37
Opposite of odi : AMO
38
Ring : PHONE
39
"What ___ how fair she be?": G. Wither : CAREI
40
Winds that mean "seasons" in Arabic : MONSOONS
42
Kind of "Game" that hit N.Y.C. in 1954 : PAJAMA
43
Spot for a certain queen : HIVE
44
Gleason's "And away ___!" : WEGO
45
Cash-register recording : NOSALE
48
Former capital of the Mountain State : WHEELING
52
See 17 Across : ISTRULYHORRIBLE
54
Bread; dough; moola : KALE
55
Rousseau classic : EMILE
56
Sonny in "The Godfather" : CAAN
57
Conductor of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra : EROS
58
Acted like Hotspur : RAGED
59
Trivium and quadrivium : ARTS
Down
1
Exclamation in a Schulz comic : RATS
2
Pale as a ghost : ASHY
3
Take ___ stride : ITIN
4
Unrelated : DISCRETE
5
Takes as one's own : ADOPTS
6
Rubens's "___ Graces" : THREE
7
Rocky formations : TORS
8
Robert of "Quincy" : ITO
9
Like Arthur's Table : CIRCULAR
10
Grimalkins : CRONES
11
"We ___ met the enemy ... " : HAVE
12
Actor Tamiroff: 1899-1972 : AKIM
13
"___ Yellow Ribbon ... " : TIEA
18
Viscount Templewood : HOARE
19
Snagged in a bog : MIRED
23
Porter's "You Don't Know ___": 1929 : PAREE
24
"___, I'm Adam" : MADAM
25
Cottonwood : ALAMO
26
Criterion : CANON
27
Sheppard-Turpin guns : STENS
28
O'Connor's cook on TV : MEARA
29
Pertinent, to a prosecutor : ADREM
30
Ending with Poly and Indo : NESIA
32
Glowed : SHONE
35
Freshwater duck : SHOVELER
36
Variety of Italian pottery : MAJOLICA
38
Doughboy's French ally : POILU
39
Athlete like "Magic" : CAGER
41
Brokers' concerns : SHARES
42
Became a sidewalk superintendent : PEERED
44
Totality : WHOLE
45
Winged statue in the Louvre : NIKE
46
Glacial ridges : OSAR
47
Historic town in Normandy : STLO
48
Zachary Taylor was one : WHIG
49
Cousin of an H beam : IBAR
50
Cartographer's abbr. : NLAT
51
Roman family group : GENS
53
Singer Sumac : YMA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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