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Joe Clonick
Joe Clonick

New York Times, Saturday, January 28, 1984

25-Down : The Big Train

Author:
Joe Clonick
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, 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. 12,499
Across
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Columbia Lou : GEHRIG
7
Tom Terrific : SEAVER
13
Whalebones : BALEENS
14
Member of the work force : LABORER
16
Colonizing tropical crawler : ARMYANT
17
Historic period : IRONAGE
18
Hgt. : ALT
19
Yarn measure : LEA
20
Rep. or Dem. : PTY
21
Bishopric : SEE
22
Stripped : BARE
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Hornsby's sobriquet : RAJAH
26
Attila's men : HUNS
27
Concerning : ANENT
29
Pitcher Medich's nickname : DOC
30
Author Bret : HARTE
31
Miss Astaire et al. : ADELES
33
Like a lost cause : HOPELESS
35
The Old Professor : STENGEL
37
Tiny tubers : ROOTLETS
41
Capital of Kan. : TOPEKA
46
Nine: Comb. form : ENNEA
47
Molder : ROT
49
"___ of Athens" : TIMON
50
Henbit, e.g. : WEED
51
Big Poison or Little Poison : WANER
53
"___-daisy!" : UPSY
54
Oahu city : EWA
55
Sea eagle : ERN
56
German article : EIN
58
Prefix for metric or tonic : ISO
59
The Ten Commandments : DECALOG
61
Excess amount : OVERRUN
63
Notched, as a leaf : SERRATE
64
Iron compound : FERRITE
65
Wee Willie : KEELER
66
The Fordham Flash : FRISCH
Down
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Lei : GARLAND
2
Shade provider : ELMTREE
3
Mays, The Say ___ Kid : HEY
4
Genuine : REAL
5
___ sanctum : INNER
6
Swiss resort : GSTAAD
7
Err : SLIPACOG
8
Our home : EARTH
9
"___ Named Sue" : ABOY
10
Wernher ___ Braun : VON
11
Deletion : ERASURE
12
University officers : REGENTS
13
"Black sheep" precursors : BAABAA
15
Pee Wee and Rich : REESES
23
Photog's abbr. : ENL
25
The Big Train : JOHNSON
26
Newhouser or McRae : HAL
28
U.S. electrician and inventor : TESLA
30
Greek serf : HELOT
32
Jeanne d'Arc, for one: Abbr. : STE
34
Fala or Checkers : PET
36
French alien : ETRANGER
37
Emulates Zsa Zsa or Liz : REWEDS
38
Hebdomad : ONEWEEK
39
43,560 square feet : ONEACRE
40
Williams or Turner : TED
42
Musical "more" : PIU
43
Experiential : EMPIRIC
44
Hungarian patriot and statesman : KOSSUTH
45
No particular person : ANYONE
48
Start golfing : TEEOFF
51
Inscribed : WROTE
52
Uele or Ebro : RIVER
55
Israeli airline : ELAL
57
St. Philip ___ : NERI
60
Exist : ARE
62
B.&O. et al. : RRS

Answer summary:
4 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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