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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Saturday, February 2, 1980

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.25, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 306 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 58.3
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,043
Across
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Ostentation : POMP
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Word before Judgment or Supper : LAST
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D.S.O. designee : HERO
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Satan's delight : EVIL
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___-frutti : TUTTI
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Effluvium : ODOR
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"Look alive!" : GETAMOVEON
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Heap : PILE
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Fernando, Alfonso et al. : REYES
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Certain fertilizers : NITRATES
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Grub St. denizen : HACK
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Ring: Comb. form : CYCLO
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Diamond dealer : LAPIDARY
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Pertaining to a skin ailment : PSORIC
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Put up with : ABIDE
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Leak out slowly : OOZE
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Young Madrilenian : NINO
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Ahab's or Lear's emotion : RAGE
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Llamas' milieu : ANDES
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Pant violently : GASP
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Area east of the Urals : ASIA
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___-do-well : NEER
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Philippine timber trees : ACLES
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Trumpeter's stage signal : SENNET
44
Adjective for an untouchable : LOWCASTE
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Bob Hope sparkler : ADLIB
48
Rests : SITS
49
On deck : TOPSIDES
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Painter compared with Bruegel : MOSES
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It has a double-reed mouthpiece : OBOE
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Valued too highly : OVERPRIZED
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Campaign verb in the 50's : LIKE
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Chief Justice after Marshall : TANEY
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Squirrel's nest : DRAY
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Vichyssoise ingredient : LEEK
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Within: Comb. form : ENTO
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Shade of blue : YALE
Down
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Fix prices : PEG
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Word with time or throw : OVER
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Particle : MITE
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Practice a form of deception : PLAYHIDEANDSEEK
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Schisgal drama: 1964 : LUV
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Solar disk : ATEN
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Stiff-upper-lip chap : STOIC
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Photos of yesteryear : TINTYPES
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William Boyd role : HOPALONGCASSIDY
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Forte of William Allen White : EDITORIALS
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Part : ROLE
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Bauxite and stibnite : ORES
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Mario's beloved : TOSCA
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General at Gettysburg : MEADE
21
British medical org. : RCS
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Money in Copenhagen : KRONE
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"___ Theme," movie song : LARAS
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Humble : ABASE
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Blind purchase : PIGINAPOKE
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Alpine sound : YODEL
30
Atlas section : INSET
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Thicket : COPSE
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Kamikaze planes : ZEROS
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Counteractive remedy : ANTIDOTE
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Olivier, for one : ACTOR
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Samuel's teacher : ELI
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Popeye's hungry pal : WIMPY
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Aneurin of England: 1897–1960 : BEVAN
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Turnpike payment : TOLL
50
Drama award : OBIE
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Transported : SENT
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Pound or Stone : EZRA
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Pinniped : SEAL
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Erskine contemporary : REO
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Red 1 or Blue 5 : DYE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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