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Joe Clonick
Joe Clonick

New York Times, Saturday, October 13, 1984

7-Across : Spasmodic, as a muscle

Author:
Joe Clonick
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Joe Clonick has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,758
Across
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Owner of a multicolored coat : JOSEPH
7
Spasmodic, as a muscle : CLONIC
13
Old French dance : GAVOTTE
14
Outer ear : AURICLE
16
Another dance : ONESTEP
17
Changeable; variable : PROTEAN
18
Debussy's sea : MER
19
Rainbow, e.g. : ARC
20
French possessive : SES
21
Except : BUT
22
Work of Snorri Sturluson : EDDA
24
Driers for hops : OASTS
26
They returned in a Lucas film : JEDI
27
Makes turbid : ROILS
29
Fourth Arabic letter : THA
30
Device for preparing apples : CORER
31
Composed : SEDATE
33
Snarl : ENTANGLE
35
Plucked forcibly : EVULSED
37
About to occur : IMMINENT
41
" ... the ___ of gold": Keats : REALMS
46
High times : NOONS
47
Unite : WED
49
Buy a round : TREAT
50
Cubitus : ULNA
51
Laughs, in Lille : RIRES
53
Colonist with loyalty to royalty : TORY
54
Trumpery : ROT
55
Something to step on : GAS
56
Baden-Baden, e.g. : SPA
58
Zilch : NIL
59
Light cotton fabric : ETAMINE
61
Boss, in Bari : PADRONE
63
Ireland's northernmost county : DONEGAL
64
Bade : ORDERED
65
Dressing table : VANITY
66
Proscenium drape : TEASER
Down
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Unidentified female : JANEDOE
2
Carried to excess : OVERDID
3
Mayday relative : SOS
4
Cartoonist Hulme : ETTA
5
Wing: Comb. form : PTERO
6
"With-it" guy of the 40's : HEPCAT
7
Anchor-hoisting machines : CAPSTANS
8
Certain flies : LURES
9
Diamonds, in Pedro's deck : OROS
10
Annual court tourn. : NIT
11
Growler : ICEBERG
12
French diplomat, poet, dramatist: 1868-1955 : CLAUDEL
13
TV's Pyle et al. : GOMERS
15
Complete : ENTIRE
23
SEC member : ALA
25
A basic need : SHELTER
26
Hairstylist-producer Peters : JON
28
British guns : STENS
30
Younger son or brother : CADET
32
Early pome picker : EVE
34
Dutch painter Gerard ___ Borch : TER
36
Sans sagacity : UNWISELY
37
Accustomed : INURED
38
Cocktail with a wallop : MOLOTOV
39
Where Custer last stood : MONTANA
40
Actress Balin : INA
42
Cunning or finesse : ART
43
"Fidelio" heroine : LEONORE
44
NASA explorer of Mars : MARINER
45
Fashioned : STYLED
48
Caligula was one : DESPOT
51
Charged : RANAT
52
Consolation for Mark Roth : SPARE
55
Lerner-Loewe musical : GIGI
57
Skink : ADDA
60
Hands : MEN
62
Lab. work : RES

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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