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Joe Clonick
Joe Clonick

New York Times, Saturday, September 28, 1985

38-Down : Slender, Old World fish

Author:
Joe Clonick
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { K V Z }, Scrabble score: 298 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
Joe Clonick has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,108
Across
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Court game : SQUASH
7
Choreographer Twyla and family : THARPS
13
Give one ___ (show interest in) : ATUMBLE
14
Poisonous herb : HENBANE
16
Stage manager's aide : PROPMAN
17
Rigby of songdom : ELEANOR
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One way to stand : PAT
19
The Ukr., e.g. : SSR
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Soaked : WET
21
Windhoek is its cap. : SWA
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Grenoble geese : OIES
24
Rickover : HYMAN
26
Longchamp site : BOIS
27
Furrow; ridge : STRIA
29
First U.S. Chief Justice : JAY
30
Olympian Jenner : BRUCE
31
Early ascetic : ESSENE
33
Battologized : ITERATED
35
Name of 16 Vatican leaders : GREGORY
37
Jurassic carnivore : ALLOSAUR
41
Dried orchid tubers : SALEPS
46
"Prosit" or "L'chayim" : TOAST
47
Tie fabric : REP
49
Katmandu's country : NEPAL
50
A fast food in Fresnillo : TACO
51
Clan emblem : TOTEM
53
Early whirly : GIRO
54
Here, to Henri : ICI
55
Dadaist Jean : ARP
56
D.C. group for art's sake : NEA
58
Jeff Davis's org. : CSA
59
A RR's feline mascot : CHESSIE
61
Means of locomotion in Sandburg's "Fog" : CATFEET
63
Verse form : SESTINA
64
Chants : INTONES
65
Ancestral line : STRAIN
66
Wildcats : LYNXES
Down
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Dire ___, rock group : STRAITS
2
Stockbrokers, at times : QUOTERS
3
Ref's colleague : UMP
4
Some rockets : ABMS
5
Virgule : SLASH
6
Industrialist Kaiser : HENRYJ
7
"Do You Know ___ San Jose?": 1967 hit : THEWAYTO
8
Champion ship-launcher? : HELEN
9
Dill of the Bible : ANET
10
Abbr. for a Moroccan airport : RBA
11
Comes to pass, as hoped for : PANSOUT
12
Frozen slush : SNOWICE
13
Place next to : APPOSE
15
Expunged : ERASED
23
She, in Stuttgart : SIE
25
Simenon's detective : MAIGRET
26
Lingerie item : BRA
28
Dread: anxiety : ANGST
30
Scopes's prosecutor : BRYAN
32
Historic period : ERA
34
Hesitant sounds : ERS
36
Kind of plan at a hotel : EUROPEAN
37
Tall stories? : ATTICS
38
Slender, Old World fish : LOACHES
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Most filigreed : LACIEST
40
Bruin in Barcelona : OSO
42
Trip segment : LEG
43
Effeminate : EPICENE
44
Indian Zoroastrians : PARSEES
45
Former theatrical lifts : SLOATS
48
Kind of pusher : PENCIL
51
Entertainer Lopez : TRINI
52
Memorable labor leader : MEANY
55
Area east of the Bosporus : ASIA
57
Business-letter abbr. : ATTN
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Orch. section : STR
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Crow's cousin : FOX

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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