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Judson G. Trent
New York Times, Thursday, January 31, 1980
Author:
Judson G. Trent
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 13, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 20.2
1 T | 2 R | 3 I | 4 P | | 5 H | 6 O | 7 U | 8 R | | 9 L | 10 U | 11 T | 12 E | |
13 R | O | D | E | | 14 A | N | N | A | | 15 E | N | A | T | 16 E |
17 A | M | O | R | | 18 N | E | S | T | | 19 A | C | R | E | S |
20 M | E | N | S | | 21 D | O | P | E | | 22 G | O | O | S | E |
23 P | O | T | P | 24 I | E | | 25 O | D | 26 I | U | M | | | |
| | | 27 I | D | L | 28 E | R | | 29 M | E | M | 30 O | 31 I | 32 R |
33 A | 34 B | 35 A | C | O | | 36 S | T | 37 O | P | | 38 U | L | N | A |
39 V | O | C | A | L | | 40 A | S | P | | 41 S | N | A | T | H |
42 O | N | I | C | | 43 F | U | M | E | | 44 L | I | N | O | S |
45 N | O | D | I | 46 C | E | | 47 A | N | 48 T | I | C | | | |
| | | 49 O | L | D | 50 E | N | | 51 I | M | A | 52 G | 53 E | 54 S |
55 I | 56 S | 57 S | U | E | | 58 A | L | 59 A | R | | 60 T | A | L | E |
61 C | H | O | S | E | | 62 T | I | S | A | | 63 I | M | A | N |
64 C | A | U | L | K | | 65 I | K | I | D | | 66 V | E | T | O |
| 67 D | R | Y | S | | 68 N | E | N | E | | 69 E | D | E | R |
© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,041
Across
1
This may come before the fall :
TRIP5
"Now Is the ___," 1946 song :
HOUR9
13
Emulated Angel Cordero :
RODE14
15
17
"___ vincit insomnia": C. Fry :
AMOR18
19
20
21
22
Snow or Mother follower :
GOOSE23
25
27
Park-bench habitué :
IDLER29
33
Great ___, in the Bahamas :
ABACO36
"___ the World, I ... " :
STOP38
39
40
41
42
43
44
Typesetters' machines, for short :
LINOS45
47
49
Of early times: Poet. :
OLDEN51
55
58
60
61
62
River in Yugoslavia :
TISA63
"___ Old Cowhand," 1936 song :
IMAN64
65
"___ You Not," book by Paar :
IKID66
U.S.S.R. nyet at U.N. :
VETO67
Volstead Act supporters :
DRYS68
State bird of Hawaii :
NENE69
Down
1
2
One of the Montagues :
ROMEO3
"___ Want Your Kisses," 1929 song :
IDONT4
5
He wrote 23 oratorios :
HANDEL6
___ cat (sandlot game) :
ONEO7
8
9
10
11
12
16
24
26
28
30
Rainer's 1937 Oscar-winning role :
OLAN31
Long-division word :
INTO32
33
Stratford's stream :
AVON34
35
37
Kind of house or letter :
OPEN41
43
46
48
50
52
Patronized a casino :
GAMED53
54
Monsieur, in Madrid :
SENOR55
Agcy. controlling railroad fares :
ICC56
57
59
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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