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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Friday, February 8, 1980

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.24, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 56.9
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. 11,049
Across
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Chatter : TALK
5
Edmund of old films : LOWE
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Father of Leah and Rachel : LABAN
14
An Alda : ALAN
15
Yoked beasts : OXEN
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Speechify : ORATE
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Have one's revenge at last : PAYOFFOLDSCORES
20
Sonnet stanza : SESTET
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Sen. Baker's in-laws : DIRKSENS
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Suffix denoting nativity : ITE
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Update : REVISE
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Gene Kelly stage role: 1940 : JOEY
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Like some coins : RARE
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Certain Spanish art : MIROS
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Unit of energy : ERG
32
Fires : CANS
33
Wretchedness, in Tours : MISERE
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Everlasting : AGELONG
36
Seaport now known as Jakarta : BATAVIA
37
Swimming : NATANT
38
___ Low, N.Y.C. mayor: 1901–3 : SETH
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Cusk ___ : EEL
40
Stall sound : SNORT
41
"___! poor Yorick" : ALAS
42
"___ Well ... " : ALLS
43
Adjusted : GEARED
45
Santa ___, city in Calif. : ANA
46
Bahr al Azraq : BLUENILE
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Martha Washington's first husband : CUSTIS
52
Go at tremendous speed : OUTSTRIPTHEWIND
54
Beethoven's "Für ___" : ELISE
55
Father : SIRE
56
Ipecac source : EVEA
57
Held sway : RULED
58
In a ___ (vexed) : SNIT
59
Smell like a stogie : REEK
Down
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Bugle call : TAPS
2
Wings : ALAE
3
Use Agamemnon's strategy at Troy : LAYSIEGETO
4
Like some pines : KNOTTY
5
Hay follower : LOFT
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Chemist's ___ process : OXO
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Metalworkers : WELDERS
8
Salad ingredient : ENDIVE
9
Linus Yale was one : LOCKSMITH
10
Part of a Stein line : AROSEISA
11
Word with back or foot : BARE
12
Solar disk : ATEN
13
Loch that has people keyed up : NESS
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Fixed charge : FEE
19
Title in Delhi : SRI
23
Tolled : RANG
24
Informal apparel : JEANS
25
Heart, for one : ORGAN
26
Rave's companion : RANT
28
Disclosing : REVELATIVE
29
Bay window : ORIEL
30
Phocids : SEALS
32
"___ wi' little ... ": Burns : CONTENTED
33
Equipment for grapplers : MATS
35
Generosity : LARGESSE
36
One on a string : BEAD
38
Kind of maid : SLEEPIN
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Oscar winner: 1929–30 : ARLISS
42
Retort : ANSWER
44
Ventilate : AIR
45
Poet Hartmann von ___ : AUE
46
Oom Paul Kruger, for one : BOER
47
Comic-strip tot : LULU
48
Gas co. : UTIL
49
President Arthur's nickname : CHET
50
Arrow poison : INEE
51
Neb. neighbor : SDAK
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Quadri minus one : TRI

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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