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A. J. Santora
A. J. Santora

New York Times, Thursday, July 27, 1978

Author:
A. J. Santora
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 55.7
A. J. Santora has 185 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 68 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,575
Across
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Perry's kin : COMOS
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Explosive sound : BOOM
10
Throb : ACHE
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Carried on a breeze : AWAFT
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___ Pavlova, memorable ballerina : ANNA
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Make designs in leather : TOOL
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Like a sheet of stamps : PERFORATED
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Contents of a dump : AMMO
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Maroon : ENISLE
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Where "they have to take you in": Frost : HOME
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Alcott girl : MEG
24
Therefore : HENCE
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Extra rendition : ENCORE
28
Mount whence Moses viewed the Promised Land : NEBO
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Forty-niner : ARGONAUT
33
Battology : ITERATION
35
Large family group : TRIBE
38
Two-wheeled carriages in the Philippines : CALESAS
39
Musical interval : TRITONE
41
T. S. or George : ELIOT
42
Pet project of De Witt Clinton : ERIECANAL
44
Boring : TIRESOME
46
Egyptian goddess : ISIS
47
Expend or expenditure : OUTLAY
49
Rising time for many : SEVEN
51
Nothing : NIL
52
Forty weekdays : LENT
54
Break out : ESCAPE
58
Use shears : SNIP
60
Thwarts by advance action : FORESTALLS
62
Lab heater : ETNA
63
Word on a U.S. coin : UNUM
64
As ___ the hills : OLDAS
65
Markers : TAGS
66
Moon buggies : LEMS
67
Shave wood : PLANE
Down
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Elizabeth, in Maine : CAPE
2
Davidson of tennis : OWEN
3
Spouse, in Sedan : MARI
4
Energy source in the news : OFFSHOREOIL
5
Fur wrap : STOLE
6
Sheepish sound : BAA
7
Busy, busy, busy : ONTHEGO
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___ cat (street game) : ONEO
9
Lunatics : MADMEN
10
One ___ time : ATA
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Disturbances : COMMOTIONS
12
Four-bagger : HOMER
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Funeral oration : ELOGE
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Diva Tebaldi : RENATA
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Matrilineal : ENATIC
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Crucial times : CRISES
27
Applause response : CURTAINCALL
28
Complaisant : NICE
29
Unnamed others: Abbr. : ETAL
30
Pooh-poohing : BELITTLING
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Promptly : ONTIME
34
Of the stars : ASTRAL
36
___ B'rith : BNAI
37
Congers : EELS
40
Municipal officials : REEVES
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Dais : ROSTRUM
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Beautiful girl : EYEFUL
47
Start : ONSET
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Rocky Mountain range : UINTA
50
Prohibit, in law : ESTOP
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Not any : NONE
55
Alan of films and TV : ALDA
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Prepare for a project : PLAN
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Being : ESSE
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Dance step : PAS
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Bad ___, German spa : EMS

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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