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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Monday, November 29, 1982

61-Across : Made of wood

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 298 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,074
Across
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Kind of truck : DUMP
5
Hit : SMOTE
10
Bark cloth : TAPA
14
Part of an Ed.D. exam : ORAL
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Itinerant : NOMAD
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Approval : AMEN
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Like equestrienne Godiva : NAKEDASAJAYBIRD
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Toggery merchant : CLOTHIER
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Heart essential : AORTA
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Blessed : HOLY
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K-P connection : LMNO
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Proceeds steadily with difficulty : PLOWS
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Thai export : TEAK
28
Literary monogram : GBS
31
Endure : WEAR
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Home entertainment : MOVIE
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"___ a poor wayfaring ... " : IAM
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Like Savalas : ASBALDASANEAGLE
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From ___ Z : ATO
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Waiter's request : ORDER
40
SANE target : NUKE
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Pro : FOR
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Air : AURA
43
Not easily duped : CAGEY
45
Sharpness : EDGE
46
S O S, e.g. : CALL
47
Key group : CADRE
50
Furniture slots : MORTISES
54
Like a new father : PROUDASAPEACOCK
57
On the summit : ATOP
58
Beat : PULSE
59
City SE of Torino : ASTI
60
Wowed : SENT
61
Made of wood : TREEN
62
High time : NOON
Down
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Therefore: Fr. : DONC
2
Soviet river : URAL
3
Tasty shark : MAKO
4
Excess : PLETHORA
5
René's escargots : SNAILS
6
Saunter : MOSEY
7
First name in Persian poetry : OMAR
8
___ Mahal : TAJ
9
Psychologist LeShan : EDA
10
Ban : TABOO
11
Riyadh bigwig : AMIR
12
Spritely : PERT
13
Welk's "A-one ___-two ... " : ANDA
18
Junk's Arabian cousin : DHOW
19
Type of know-how : YANKEE
23
Actor Burton : LEVAR
24
Open sea : MAIN
25
Spaghetti sauce : PESTO
26
___ of love : LABOR
27
Where an owl and a cat went : TOSEA
28
Lively dance of yore : GIGUE
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Obstinate : BALKY
30
River duck : SMEE
31
Wren's relative : WAAF
32
A parent of Pedro : MADRE
35
Like some questions : LOADED
36
Hospital item : DRUG
37
Queen Elizabeth is one : ANGLICAN
43
Lurch : CAREEN
44
Can. province : ALTA
45
Break out : ERUPT
46
Thicket : COPSE
47
They're busy in Apr. : CPAS
48
Comic-actor Johnson : ARTE
49
"The Banks o' ___": Burns : DOON
50
Buck, for one : MALE
51
Middling : SOSO
52
Outside: Prefix : ECTO
53
Fleece : SKIN
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Likely : APT
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Big ___, Calif. : SUR

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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