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Kevin Wray
Kevin Wray

New York Times, Saturday, June 2, 1984

18-Down : Sense of humor

Author:
Kevin Wray
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F Q Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Kevin Wray has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,625
Across
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Goddess of infatuation : ATE
4
Anticlimax : BATHOS
10
Follower of Joel : AMOS
14
Diet abbr. : CAL
15
Troupial : ORIOLE
16
Place for lox stocked in barrels : DELI
17
Start of a Swiftian mot on aging : EVERYMANDESIRES
20
Create : DEVISE
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A daughter of Mnemosyne : ERATO
22
Piques : IRES
23
Smart : DRESSY
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Wharton School deg. : MBA
29
Carrottop of comics : ANNIE
31
Strut and fret one's hour : ACT
32
Imposture : HOAX
33
Desperado : BRAVO
35
___ line (conform) : TOETHE
37
Middle of mot : TOLIVELONGBUT
40
Living Dahl : ARLENE
41
Bizarre : OUTRE
42
Wash water : SUDS
43
Some Lts. : JGS
44
Major followers : ETTES
48
Daisy, to Dagwood : PET
49
Sated : CLOYED
52
Caspian feeder : URAL
53
Itzak's contemporary : ISAAC
55
"I may command where ___": Shak. : IADORE
57
End of mot : NOMANWOULDBEOLD
61
Arabian gulf : ADEN
62
Early monk : ESSENE
63
Baseball toss : PEG
64
Make coffee : PERK
65
Long-Garn milieu : SENATE
66
Sault ___ Marie : STE
Down
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Sloth : ACEDIA
2
Spot for the old-fashioned? : TAVERN
3
Giants, for one : ELEVEN
4
Father Flanagan's ___ Town : BOYS
5
Like certain forces : ARMED
6
Sobrina's kin : TIA
7
Judicial abbr. : HON
8
Most venerable : OLDEST
9
Haruspices : SEERS
10
Mine access : ADIT
11
Ex ___ (of one's own accord) : MEROMOTU
12
Norwegian Bull : OLE
13
Fam. member : SIS
18
Sense of humor : RISIBLES
19
Utter : SAY
24
Spout inanities : RAVE
25
Bionomics : ECOLOGY
27
Tender of Thailand : BAHT
28
It's often ground : AXE
30
Hibernia : ERIN
32
Lethargy : HEBETUDE
34
Baltic or Atlantic : AVE
35
Explosive : TNT
36
Grendel, in "Beowulf" : OGRE
37
Shade of blue? : TRUE
38
Veteran : OLDTIMER
39
River of York : OUSE
40
Cleo's little nipper : ASP
43
Humorous : JOCOSE
45
Scout units : TROOPS
46
Tragus : EARLET
47
Kind of hammer : SLEDGE
49
Ash or trash : CAN
50
English composer: 1596-1662 : LAWES
51
"She ___ Say Yes" : DIDNT
54
Settled : SANK
56
Busy as ___ : ABEE
57
Teasel raises it : NAP
58
Homophone of owed : ODE
59
Seagoing inits. : USN
60
Boss's grazing place : LEA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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