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C. J. Angio
C. J. Angio

New York Times, Tuesday, September 2, 1980

49-Down : Precision or refinement

Author:
C. J. Angio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
C. J. Angio has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,256
Across
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Become washed out : FADE
5
Key on a calculator : PLUS
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Prefix with bellum : ANTE
13
Mars, to Homer : ARES
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Geneva is one : LAKE
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Sign on an inn : ROOMS
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Pitching star : TOMSEAVER
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Let in : ADMIT
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"___ Yankee Doodle dandy" : IMA
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Sch. affiliate : PTA
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Hijack : ROB
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Mrs., in Mexico : SRA
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Golf club : MASHIE
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Aries : RAM
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Angler's headache : SNAG
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Dido : ANTIC
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Native of: Suffix : OTE
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Place for a chapeau : TETE
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Big ___, Calif. : SUR
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Member of the congregation : BELIEVER
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Three, to Tonio : TRE
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Ebbs : RECEDES
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Dummkopf : ASS
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Backup man for 17 Across : RELIEVER
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Faulkner's "___ Reivers" : THE
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Champagne bucket : ICER
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In the preceding mo. : ULT
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Horse blanket : MANTA
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Eight quarts : PECK
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Guidonian note : ELA
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Buchwald's forte : SATIRE
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Kindled : LIT
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Inst. at Baton Rouge : LSU
57
Bishopric : SEE
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Stanley Steamer, e.g. : CAR
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Broadway musical : EVITA
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Stowe girl : LITTLEEVA
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"Stretch" inning : SEVEN
65
Sector : AREA
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Restore to copy : STET
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Cleave : REND
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Landlord's due : RENT
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Nabors role : PYLE
Down
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Bluebeard's curious wife : FATIMA
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"Butcher'd to make ___ holiday": Byron : AROMAN
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Strip a ship : DEMAST
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Sigma : ESS
5
Bench guards it : PLATE
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"___ Come Back to Me" (Etna's song) : LAVA
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Cousin of a gee-tar : UKE
8
Notched : SERRATED
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Damascene, e.g. : ARAB
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Silent approval : NOD
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Auto-racing star : TOMSNEVA
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Moslem rulers' domains : EMIRATES
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Old hands : STAGERS
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Selective gourmand : EPICURE
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Foo yong : OMELET
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Greetings : HIS
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Kern musical: 1933 : ROBERTA
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Sault ___ Marie : STE
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Ziegfeld creations : REVUES
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Pequod crewman : ISHMAEL
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Long hits : TRIPLES
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Swann or Fisk : RECEIVER
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Optional course : ELECTIVE
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Porous : CELLULAR
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Annoy : IRK
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Satisfy edacity : EAT
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Precision or refinement : NICETY
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Proverbial broadener : TRAVEL
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What soda-water manufacturers do : AERATE
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Attack : SETAT
56
Catch : LAND
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Anna of "Nana": 1934 : STEN
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Bo Derek film : TEN
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Choler : IRE
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Thought-transfer initials : ESP

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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