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Elio Desiderio
Elio Desiderio

New York Times, Monday, April 6, 1981

Author:
Elio Desiderio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { G J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 27.7
Elio Desiderio has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,472
Across
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Sail support : MAST
5
Like a deluxe suite : POSH
9
Quickly : APACE
14
Ontario feeder : ERIE
15
Mariner's term : ALEE
16
Old Italian ruling house : SAVOY
17
Brazilian river or territory : ACRE
18
Have on : WEAR
19
Start of an Austen title : PRIDE
20
Hemingway novel : THESUNALSORISES
23
Writer Deighton : LEN
24
Lambs' mothers : EWES
25
Tied : BOUND
28
Heraldic border : ORLE
29
Mover's truck : VAN
32
Blackmore heroine : LORNA
33
Curare, e.g. : INEE
34
Marceau is one : MIME
35
Hansberry title : ARAISININTHESUN
38
Comic-strip name : KETT
39
Siouan : OTOE
40
Got up : AROSE
41
Summer quaff : ADE
42
Nater of the N.B.A. : SWEN
43
Jacques's title : FRERE
44
Armadillo : APAR
45
Inst. near Harvard : MIT
46
Simon title : THESUNSHINEBOYS
54
Dynamo part : ROTOR
55
One, to Helmut : EINE
56
Supermarket offering : OLEO
57
___-garde : AVANT
58
Shank : CRUS
59
Norman of TV fame : LEAR
60
Doles out : METES
61
Student's worry : TEST
62
Risk : DARE
Down
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Hamburger, e.g. : MEAT
2
Prefix for fiend or angel : ARCH
3
Father : SIRE
4
Links gadgets : TEES
5
Impignorated : PAWNED
6
City in N.Y. : OLEAN
7
Signet : SEAL
8
___ Highness (Princess Grace) : HERSERENE
9
On ___ (reveling) : ASPREE
10
Helen's kidnapper : PARIS
11
This may be rara : AVIS
12
Morse or zip : CODE
13
Ogles : EYES
21
Arm bones : ULNAS
22
Little hooter : OWLET
25
Suffering from ennui : BORED
26
Speak publicly : ORATE
27
Single entity : UNIT
28
"The ___ Field," Wambaugh novel : ONION
29
Helmet part : VISOR
30
Divert : AMUSE
31
Hawaiian goose : NENE
32
"Mighty ___ Rose" : LAKA
33
Cross : INTERSECT
34
Only : MERE
36
Johnny Carson, by birth : IOWAN
37
Bret ___ : HARTE
42
Sudden gushes : SPURTS
43
The best : FINEST
44
Together : ASONE
45
Key on a calculator : MINUS
46
Colliery vehicle : TRAM
47
Resort near Brighton : HOVE
48
French state : ETAT
49
Rent : HIRE
50
Courageous : BOLD
51
Olive genus : OLEA
52
Lunar or leap ___ : YEAR
53
Tender : SORE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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