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Joe Clonick
Joe Clonick

New York Times, Saturday, July 19, 1986

Author:
Joe Clonick
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J K Q W }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10, Grid flow: 50.0
Joe Clonick has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,402
Across
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Houk of baseball fame : RALPH
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Welty's "Why I Live at ___" : THEPO
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Bro. or dau. : REL
14
Maine university town : ORONO
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Old Sol, diurnally : RISER
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Author LeShan : EDA
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Hung out the wash : AIRED
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Prefix with coastal : INTRA
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Moroccan city : FEZ
20
Slender, in Savoie : MENU
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"M" star : PETERLORRE
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Large Asiatic deer : SAMBARS
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"Friend" in a 1949 film : IRMA
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Stella medium : OILS
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Kind of rhyme or verse : LEONINE
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With total attention : RAPTLY
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Rifles : CARBINES
34
Menotti hero : AMAHL
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Purpose : AIM
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Builder of the Trojan horse : EPEUS
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Gilbert and Sullivan aficionado : SAVOYARD
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Soviet city on the Neman : GRODNO
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Pep, in Perpignan : ENERGIE
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Deity, in Düsseldorf : GOTT
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Dave ___, former golf star : MARR
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Middle of a Stein line : AROSEIS
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Not scrutinized : UNEXAMINED
49
Where Augustus died : NOLA
51
King Arthur's lance : RON
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Poet Doolittle: 1886–1961 : HILDA
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Lab burners : ETNAS
54
Stallion's progeny : GET
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"Deutschland über ___" : ALLES
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An oil producer : OLIVE
57
Chi. transports : ELS
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At sixes and sevens : MESSY
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SE African lake : NYASA
Down
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Range : ROAM
2
Roman siege instrument : ARIES
3
Actress Luft : LORNA
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Lung problem : PNEUMOTHORAX
5
Mason's burden : HOD
6
Judges : TRIERS
7
Soupçons : HINTS
8
Tasso's patron : ESTE
9
Medieval stone-throwing engine : PERRIER
10
University at Tulsa : ORALROBERTS
11
Practiced abstinence : REFRAINED
12
W. German river : EDER
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Loll about : LAZE
21
Wan : PALY
22
With all-encompassing power : OMNIPOTENTLY
24
Noted evangelist : BILLYGRAHAM
27
Flight, to a felon : LAM
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Johnny ___, N.Y. Yankee manager: 1946 : NEUN
29
Pronoun for Pietro : ESSO
30
Tear down, in Devonshire : RASE
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"___ for All Seasons" : AMAN
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Road surfaces : PAVEMENTS
33
El ___, Spanish hero : CID
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Modern art : ARE
38
Distance measure for aviators : AIRMILE
39
An adjective for Whitman : GOOD
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Unctuous : GREASY
43
Vicuña's stamping grounds : ANDES
44
Ancient Aegean region : IONIA
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Serbs and Croats, e.g. : SLAVS
46
Exhort : URGE
47
Carol : NOEL
48
What Pandora let out : ILLS
50
On the Laptev : ASEA
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Time immemorial : EON

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

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