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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Thursday, September 13, 1979

27-Down : "A Boy ___ Sue"

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { B J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
C. J. Angio has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,901
Across
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Villa for Brezhnev : DACHA
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Throughout the course of : AMID
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Predecessor of Him and Her : FALA
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Garb for a cordon bleu : APRON
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Edenic : PARADISAL
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Nursery character : WEEWILLIEWINKIE
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Stanley Kowalski's wife : STELLA
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Ceases : DESISTS
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Le Gallienne and Tanguay : EVAS
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Aix-les-Bains is one : SPA
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Emulated Mathis : SANG
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Tirolese sight : ALP
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Kern's "___ River" : OLMAN
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Lazy Susan, e.g. : TRAY
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Post-riot thief : LOOTER
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Pasha or Baba : ALI
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Nursery character : RUMPELSTILTSKIN
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Play by O'Neill : ILE
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Prickly plant : NETTLE
44
Sourdough's sack : POKE
45
Part of an organ : PEDAL
47
Brain scan, for short : EEG
48
River near Dunkerque : YSER
49
Colorado State athlete : RAM
51
Sound on a rainy day : DRIP
53
Washington Irving work : ASTORIA
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Areas in cathedrals : AISLES
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Nursery character : THEUGLYDUCKLING
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Jittery state : TENSENESS
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"You can't have your cake and ___" : EATIT
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Eucalypt : YATE
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"___ Perpetua," Idaho motto : ESTO
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Dogfight vehicles in W.W. I : SPADS
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Crows' cousins : DAWS
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In ___ (sulking) : APET
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Canadian lake or Indian : CREE
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Caterwaul : HOWL
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Old-womanish : ANILE
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Calendar abbr. : APL
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When Paris is blooming : MAI
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Angered : IRED
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Peace Prize cowinner in 1925 : DAWES
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Ornament atop a gable : FINIAL
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Invites : ASKS
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Café au ___ : LAIT
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Town NW of Nîmes : ALES
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Play : DISPORT
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"Band of America" conductor : LAVALLE
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Cather's "___ Lady" : ALOST
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Like a Dalmatian : SPOTTED
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Airport runway : STRIP
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"Any fool can make ___": Thoreau : ARULE
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"A Boy ___ Sue" : NAMED
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Chisel; rip off : GYP
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Large sharks : MAKOS
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Describing two peas in a pod : ALIKE
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Forty follower : NINER
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Roofing man : TILER
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Plaintive; melancholy : ELEGIAC
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Magnify : ENLARGE
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Northern ___ (apple variety) : SPY
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Excite : AROUSE
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Creator of Winnie the Pooh : MILNE
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___ Peak : PIKES
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D.A., for example : ATTY
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Neighbor of LaGuardia : SHEA
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Saracen's quarters : TENT
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Sounds heard on Capitol Hill : AYES
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Cuff : SLAP
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Second Mrs. Chaplin : LITA
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"Idyll" lass : ENID
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Bosses of cpls. : SGTS
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Autumn casualty: Abbr. : DST
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Group helping G.I.'s : USO

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