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A. J. Santora
A. J. Santora

New York Times, Saturday, April 21, 1979

Author:
A. J. Santora
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 300 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 37.0 Grid has duplicate clues.
A. J. Santora has 185 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 68 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,756
Across
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Health clubs : SPAS
5
Skelton role : CLEM
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Painful memory : SCAR
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Savoy beat : STOMP
14
Critic's kudos : RAVE
15
Kind of deck : TAPE
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Veranda : LANAI
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Giant of Norse myths : YMIR
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___ now! (immediately!) : ASOF
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TV sitcom : EIGHTISENOUGH
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In attendance : PRESENT
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Hundred yrs. : CEN
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Numerical ending : ETH
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Part of Mao's name : TSE
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Grand lady : DAME
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Two-way ___ : RADIO
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White poplar : ABELE
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Not in the pink : AILING
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TV sitcom : THREESCOMPANY
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Bided one's time : WAITED
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Definitions in puzzles : CLUES
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Good looks, to a starlet : ASSET
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Flunk out : FAIL
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G.I. garb : ODS
45
Clock setting in summer : DST
46
Gibbon : LAR
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Oryx : GEMSBOK
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TV sitcom : ONEDAYATATIME
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Population-growth number : ZERO
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Cake worker : ICER
57
French composer : SATIE
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Tel companion : AVIV
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Opp. of feminine : MASC
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Fragrant : OLENT
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S.A. rodent : PACA
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Tallinn man : ESTH
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Wolfe of fiction : NERO
Down
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Homophone for stares : STAIRS
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Soft cloth : PONGEE
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Nanking nanas : AMAHS
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Venom : SPITE
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Watch parts : CRYSTALS
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Like Charley's horse? : LAME
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Display : EVINCE
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Ruined city on the Nile : MEROE
9
Unattached male : STAG
10
Redeemed : CASHEDIN
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G.I. address : APO
12
Grid "zebra" : REF
13
What Washington did "here" : SLEPT
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Word of emphasis : INDEED
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Like a green banana : UNRIPE
25
Alice or Tim : TINY
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Go the whole ___ : HOG
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Holy city : MECCA
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Grieving word : ALAS
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You can call him Johnson : ARTE
33
Bailey of comics : BEETLE
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Phylactery : AMULET
35
Soviet wire service : TASS
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Adjective for Bunker Hill : HISTORIC
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Despot : OLIGARCH
38
Lump of tobacco : WAD
41
Brawl : FRACAS
42
Kind of dictum : OBITER
43
"Fats" : DOMINO
44
Marksman's game : SKEET
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Price for a dozen? : ADIME
49
Raymond Burr's early TV role : MASON
50
No longer fresh : STALE
52
Lou ___, boxing star of the past : NOVA
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A day ago: Abbr. : YEST
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Strafe, in slanguage : ZAP
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Bartok : EVA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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