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Joe Clonick
Joe Clonick

New York Times, Saturday, June 27, 1987

33-Across : Humorous columnist

Author:
Joe Clonick
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, 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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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,745
Across
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Aspic ingredient : TOMATO
7
Makes amends : ATONES
13
Kidney bean : HARICOT
14
Swift retort : RIPOSTE
16
Necessitates : ENTAILS
17
More emaciated : GAUNTER
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Caesar's favorite pronoun : EGO
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J.F.K.'s predecessor : DDE
20
Switch positions : ONS
21
Elem. curricula? : RRR
22
Editor's verb : DELE
24
Ten-percenter : AGENT
26
Zola subject : NANA
27
Inspirit : ELATE
29
Medical suffix : OMA
30
City on the Meuse : SEDAN
31
Mickey's pal : DONALD
33
Humorous columnist : BUCHWALD
35
Olympics pistol-packer : STARTER
37
Admonition to Junior : DOASISAY
41
Certain engines : TURBOS
46
Filler for la plume : ENCRE
47
Jockey Turcotte : RON
49
Bears' wide receiver : GAULT
50
Dregs : LEES
51
Detroit dud : EDSEL
53
Earth, in Bonn : ERDE
54
Believer's suffix : IST
55
Cable network for rock fans : MTV
56
Memorable pitcher Ferrell : WES
58
Pompadour or de Staël : MME
59
Insects' spiracles : STOMATA
61
Blonde or blond : TOWHEAD
63
Scarlet flier : TANAGER
64
Latter-day Aristotle : ONASSIS
65
Loss indicator : REDINK
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Cleared, as profit : NETTED
Down
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Hybrid citrus : TANGELO
2
Old World bunting : ORTOLAN
3
T. A. Daly's "___ Carlotta" : MIA
4
Niacin, e.g. : ACID
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"You ___ lie ... ": Shak. : TOLDA
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N.Y. county : OTSEGO
7
Hercules was one : ARGONAUT
8
Ex-fireballer Luis : TIANT
9
Composition : OPUS
10
___ sequitur : NON
11
"CHiPs" actor : ESTRADA
12
Of the breastbone : STERNAL
13
Took advice : HEEDED
15
Something to run : ERRAND
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Airport abbr. : ETA
25
Early stages : EMBRYOS
26
"Shanghai" author : NEW
28
Longfellow heroine : ELSIE
30
Woman's short jacket : SHRUG
32
Toper's trouble : DTS
34
This, in Tours : CET
36
Picnickers' pet? : AARDVARK
37
Remove, as a stock-market security : DELIST
38
Brigadier's insignia : ONESTAR
39
Paint remover or solvent : ACETONE
40
Incipient grads : SRS
42
Scottish explorer : RAE
43
U Nu, e.g. : BURMESE
44
Card game : OLDMAID
45
Bayard and Grani : STEEDS
48
Singer from Norfolk : NEWTON
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A.L. home-run leader: 1944 : ETTEN
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Sierra ___ : LEONE
55
Manger visitors : MAGI
57
Part of Pakistan : SWAT
60
Like Anthony Wayne : MAD
62
Predecessor of 19 Across : HST

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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