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Joe Clonick
Joe Clonick

New York Times, Saturday, May 7, 1988

14-Across : Open a bottle

Author:
Joe Clonick
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { J Q V W Y Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 4, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Joe Clonick has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,060
Across
1
Oxford university : MIAMI
6
Emulate Leo : ROAR
10
Kegler's target : PIN
13
Famed Canadian physician : OSLER
14
Open a bottle : UNCAP
16
___ Annie, of "Oklahoma!" : ADO
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Tibetan holy city : LHASA
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Ship's slip : BERTH
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Auto pioneer's monogram : REO
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Major-___ : DOMO
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Calhoun was one : CAROLINIAN
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Astaire props : TOPHATS
25
St. Martin et Martinique : ILES
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Pacific atoll : OENO
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Part of 19 Across : INITIAL
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"Gymnopédies" composer : SATIE
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Minimal security holding : ONESHARE
33
Item often tossed : SALAD
34
Pyknic : FAT
35
Certain scholar's arrival time : TENAM
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39.37 inches : ONEMETER
38
Kind of aid : FIRST
39
Put in jeopardy : PERILED
40
Col.'s superior : GENL
41
Filing aids : TABS
42
Seoul-mates? : KOREANS
45
Albert Gore Jr. is one : TENNESSEAN
48
Downy carpet surfaces : NAPS
50
Something to grind : AXE
51
Rent again : RELET
52
Tatum, in "Paper Moon" : ADDIE
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Harvest goddess : OPS
54
Wrathful fruit? : GRAPE
55
Golfer Calvin : PEETE
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Lusitania's signal : SOS
57
Cathedral area : APSE
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Bobbled the ball : ERRED
Down
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Penicillin's origin : MOLD
2
"___ an arrow into the air ... " : ISHOT
3
Davy Crockett died here : ALAMO
4
Iraqi's ancestor : MESOPOTAMIAN
5
Author Levin : IRA
6
Elasticity of tempo : RUBATO
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Outstanding folks : ONERS
8
Height: Comb. form : ACRO
9
Nautical rope : RATLINE
10
Dwellers on la Rive Gauche : PARISIANS
11
Comic-strip light bulb : IDEA
12
When both hands are up : NOON
15
Goliath was one : PHILISTINE
21
Another 23 Across : CANE
22
Delft denizen : NETHERLANDER
24
A setting for "The Student Prince" : HEIDELBERG
27
Banking abbr. : INT
28
Smell ___ : ARAT
29
NASA module : LEM
30
Compos mentis : SANE
31
Sentry's sine qua non : ALERTNESS
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Propel a randan : OAR
33
Placebo : SOP
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Nurtured : FED
37
Mosaic tile : TESSERA
38
Flowerless plant : FERN
40
Col. Sanders sported one : GOATEE
42
Donjons : KEEPS
43
Consumer advocate : NADER
44
A grudge : SPITE
45
N.M. art colony : TAOS
46
Montreal baseballer : EXPO
47
Rebuff : SLAP
49
Germ : SEED
52
Gibraltar resident : APE

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

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