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Mimi Moody
Mimi Moody

New York Times, Tuesday, September 10, 1985

Author:
Mimi Moody
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 28.2 Grid has duplicate clues.
Mimi Moody has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,090
Across
1
Challenge : DEFY
5
Like a croupier's hands : DEFT
9
Unrefined : CRASS
14
Court man Nastase : ILIE
15
"There ought to be ___!" : ALAW
16
Itinerants with bindles : HOBOS
17
Glee-club occasion : SING
18
Tire : BORE
19
Movie critic Roger : EBERT
20
Taking no chances : HEDGINGONESBETS
23
Ossie's Ruby : DEE
24
Explosives : TNTS
25
Lacey's partner on TV : CAGNEY
29
Eosin and indigo : DYES
30
Place to slow one's pace : SPA
33
Entrance courts : ATRIA
34
Indigent : POOR
35
Mexican worker : PEON
36
Plunger's phrase : DOUBLEORNOTHING
39
Chemical endings : ENES
40
Balletic knee bend : PLIE
41
Rapidity : HASTE
42
___ Aviv : TEL
43
Sale condition : ASIS
44
Kind of window : DORMER
45
Gator's relative : CROC
46
Aviation: Comb. form : AER
47
The slots : ONEARMEDBANDITS
55
Drum, dance, tree or antelope : BONGO
56
One of "three squares" : MEAL
57
Off-Broadway award : OBIE
58
Subscribe again : RENEW
59
Der ___ (Adenauer) : ALTE
60
Regimen : DIET
61
Porter's "Du Barry Was ___" : ALADY
62
___-do-well : NEER
63
Figures at Las Vegas : ODDS
Down
1
Eloper with a spoon : DISH
2
Author Wiesel : ELIE
3
Locate : FIND
4
Safecracker : YEGG
5
Actor Coleman : DABNEY
6
Panegyric : ELOGE
7
Gambling game : FARO
8
Gambling game : TWENTYONE
9
Coffers : CHESTS
10
First Family of Va. : ROBBS
11
Busy as ___ : ABEE
12
Kind : SORT
13
Rapid-transit vehicles : SSTS
21
Paragon : IDEAL
22
Spanish month : ENERO
25
Academy student : CADET
26
In agreement : ATONE
27
Porridge : GRUEL
28
His ___, the V.I.P. : NIBS
29
Mother of the Nereids : DORIS
30
Richter tremor : SEISM
31
Firenze's ___ Vecchio : PONTE
32
Resentment : ANGER
34
He may have a beat : POLICEMAN
35
Drugstore: Abbr. : PHAR
37
Salts or Downs : EPSOM
38
It lurks sub rosa : THORN
43
Swift; piercing : ARROWY
44
Casino employee : DEALER
45
Pent : CAGED
46
Lessen : ABATE
47
Toil, in Toledo : OBRA
48
Carol : NOEL
49
Sicilian city : ENNA
50
Proofreader's direction : DELE
51
Mauritius casualty : DODO
52
Footnote notation : IBID
53
Evened the score : TIED
54
Stage scenery : SETS

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

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