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Kevin Wray
Kevin Wray

New York Times, Saturday, June 2, 1984

56-Down : Busy as ___

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, Grid flow: 41.0
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
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Start of a Swiftian mot on aging : EVERYMANDESIRES
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Create : DEVISE
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A daughter of Mnemosyne : ERATO
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Piques : IRES
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Smart : DRESSY
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Wharton School deg. : MBA
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Carrottop of comics : ANNIE
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Strut and fret one's hour : ACT
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Imposture : HOAX
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Desperado : BRAVO
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___ line (conform) : TOETHE
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Middle of mot : TOLIVELONGBUT
40
Living Dahl : ARLENE
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Bizarre : OUTRE
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Wash water : SUDS
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Some Lts. : JGS
44
Major followers : ETTES
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Daisy, to Dagwood : PET
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Sated : CLOYED
52
Caspian feeder : URAL
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Itzak's contemporary : ISAAC
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"I may command where ___": Shak. : IADORE
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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
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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
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Judicial abbr. : HON
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Most venerable : OLDEST
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Haruspices : SEERS
10
Mine access : ADIT
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Ex ___ (of one's own accord) : MEROMOTU
12
Norwegian Bull : OLE
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Fam. member : SIS
18
Sense of humor : RISIBLES
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Utter : SAY
24
Spout inanities : RAVE
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Bionomics : ECOLOGY
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Tender of Thailand : BAHT
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It's often ground : AXE
30
Hibernia : ERIN
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Lethargy : HEBETUDE
34
Baltic or Atlantic : AVE
35
Explosive : TNT
36
Grendel, in "Beowulf" : OGRE
37
Shade of blue? : TRUE
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Veteran : OLDTIMER
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River of York : OUSE
40
Cleo's little nipper : ASP
43
Humorous : JOCOSE
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Scout units : TROOPS
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Tragus : EARLET
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Kind of hammer : SLEDGE
49
Ash or trash : CAN
50
English composer: 1596–1662 : LAWES
51
"She ___ Say Yes" : DIDNT
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Settled : SANK
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Busy as ___ : ABEE
57
Teasel raises it : NAP
58
Homophone of owed : ODE
59
Seagoing inits. : USN
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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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