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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Saturday, January 18, 1986

11-Across : Hogwash

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.50, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 297 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,220
Across
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Vowel mark : BREVE
6
Shoe sizes : TENAS
11
Hogwash : DRIVEL
12
Masqat men : OMANIS
14
Sign accompanied by "Keep Out" : PRIVATEPROPERTY
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Apparel : ROBES
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Actress Kelton : PERT
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Trillion: Prefix : TERA
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Geriatrician's patients : AGED
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Dice throw below Little Joe : THREE
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E.R.A. supporter : NOW
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Only, in Bonn : NUR
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Derby winner: 1955 : SWAPS
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Salad item : CHIVE
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Arch support : KEYSTONE
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Sonant : VOICED
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Cutaway features : COATTAILS
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Withdraw : DEPART
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Jacquerie : UPRISING
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Singer Cara : IRENE
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Lacquer : JAPAN
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Cuzco cash : SOL
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Like Mary Quant's style : MOD
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Calamitous : FATAL
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Vatican tribunal : ROTA
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Furniture style : ADAM
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Recumbent one : LIER
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Loose jacket of yore : SIMAR
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Mail address : GENERALDELIVERY
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Chip shot or putt : STROKE
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White-sales buy : NAPERY
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Ran up : SEWED
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Uses litmus paper : TESTS
Down
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Payola : BRIBERY
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Cleft : RIVED
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Gabor and Braun : EVAS
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Old pro : VET
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Babar of fiction : ELEPHANT
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TV's Liz ___ : TORRES
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Overplay : EMOTE
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Suede surface : NAP
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"They have prepared ___ ... ": Psalm 57 : ANET
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Alluring : SIRENIC
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Seaplane's anchor : DROGUE
13
Tried hard : STROVE
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Gambado : PRANK
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Caused to continue : PERPETUATED
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Maneuvered a spaceship : YAWED
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___ a time (in pairs) : TWOAT
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Emporium : STORE
25
Bobwhite : COLIN
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Sibilant sound : HISS
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Give the once-over : SCAN
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Of an infection : VIRAL
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Plain to see : APPARENT
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Joltin' Joe : DIMAG
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Subjects to detrition : ERODES
34
Doctrinaires' kin : PEDANTS
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Chemical compounds resembling others : ISOMERS
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Official attester : NOTARY
38
Like sun on ice : GLARY
40
Incarcerated : JAILED
43
Spall : FLAKE
44
Fix firmly : RIVET
46
Belittling adjective : MERE
48
Tastes : SIPS
50
Brouhaha : ROW
51
Papuan town : LAE

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

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