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Joe Clonick
Joe Clonick

New York Times, Saturday, June 25, 1988

5-Down : Author Earl ___ Biggers

Author:
Joe Clonick
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 373 (avg 2.04)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
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. 14,109
Across
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Last word in ice cream? : DAZS
5
Early household detergent : DUZ
8
Dissolve : MELT
12
Fla. golf site : DORAL
13
O.T. prophet or book : EZEK
15
Off Broadway award : OBIE
16
Actress Verdugo : ELENA
17
Pluckable : RIPE
18
Area : ZONE
19
Jewish instrumentalist : KLEZMER
21
Used a trike : PEDALED
23
Kind of pie? : ESKIMO
24
An anticoagulant : HEPARIN
25
Crenshaw or Hogan : BEN
26
Vote in : ELECT
27
De Brunhoff character : BABAR
30
Kinshasa is its capital : ZAIRE
31
Vanquish with a ray gun : ZAP
34
Grandpa Munster's pet bat : IGOR
35
Homes for cows or cars : BARNS
36
Chinese: Comb. form : SINO
37
Composer Confrey, to friends : ZEZ
38
Legal wrongs : TORTS
39
Freshet : SPATE
40
Obeyed a cop's command : FROZE
41
Home-viewing appurtenance : VCR
42
Author of "The Natural" : MALAMUD
44
Awn : ARISTA
48
Kind of jack or chase : STEEPLE
49
Kind of horse or pin : CLOTHES
50
Flag : TIRE
51
Fiery saint? : ELMO
53
___ Ike of comics : OZARK
54
Make the copy right : EDIT
55
Dance, in Düsseldorf : TANZ
56
Origins : GERMS
57
Dundee denials : NAES
58
Sauce for the wok : SOY
59
Greek apple-thrower : ERIS
Down
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Valley girls? : DOLLS
2
Smelly, in poesy : AREEK
3
Island off E African coast : ZANZIBAR
4
Clink : SLAMMER
5
Author Earl ___ Biggers : DERR
6
A submachine gun : UZI
7
Rigid airships : ZEPPELINS
8
Salieri's bane : MOZART
9
A Verdi princess : EBOLI
10
Flax product : LINEN
11
___ off (angry) : TEED
12
Astronaut Slayton : DEKE
14
Finders? : KEEPERS
20
Time immemorial : EON
22
Small, cyprinoid fish : DACE
24
Lion follower : HEARTED
27
Show chaser : BIZ
28
Beauty leader : AGE
29
Literary pen name : BOZ
30
Spanish comic operas : ZARZUELAS
31
___ ul-Haq, Pakistani President : ZIA
32
Grasshopper's critic : ANT
33
"The Gold Bug" creator : POE
35
Small-scale economic upturn : BOOMLET
36
Wine-and-soda drink : SPRITZER
38
Sinatra's was tender : TRAP
39
Marley's partner : SCROOGE
40
Armadas : FLEETS
41
Kind of lace : VAL
42
Cretan peak : MTIDA
43
Elevated habitation : AERIE
45
Puppeteer Lewis : SHARI
46
"___ of Endearment" : TERMS
47
Calls for : ASKS
48
British carbine : STEN
49
Snug : COZY
52
L-P linkup : MNO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 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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