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Judith Perry
Judith Perry

New York Times, Tuesday, February 26, 1985

31-Down : Blockade

Author:
Judith Perry
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0
Judith Perry has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,894
Across
1
Opponent : ANTI
5
Object : THING
10
Stumble : TRIP
14
Kind of cloth : LOIN
15
Make the Alpine echoes ring : YODEL
16
Home of the Baylor Bears : WACO
17
Hebrew letter : ALEF
18
Homeland of Icarus : CRETE
19
Pizza-parlor necessity : OVEN
20
Rocket component : NOSECONE
22
Hash house : EATERY
24
Flat or pump : SHOE
25
Bouffant hairdo : AFRO
26
"Once ___ twice shy" : BITTEN
29
Puritan : BLUENOSE
33
Biblical prophet : AMOS
34
Mar : SPOIL
36
Norse navigator : ERIC
37
Oahe is one : DAM
38
Scandinavian coin : ORE
39
Set : GEL
40
Bavarian river : EGER
42
Window adjunct : BLIND
44
Story of the Forsytes : SAGA
45
Small bouquets : NOSEGAYS
47
Curdling agent : RENNET
49
John Irving protagonist : GARP
50
Sino-Tibetan language : GARO
51
Consternation : HORROR
54
Having a snub snout : PUGNOSED
58
American author: 1909-55 : AGEE
59
Terry or Burstyn : ELLEN
61
Tiny opening : PORE
62
Rainbow : IRIS
63
Heckle : TEASE
64
Common Lat. catchall : ETAL
65
Glass : LENS
66
Rendezvous : TRYST
67
Pretty girl : DOLL
Down
1
Actor Arkin : ALAN
2
___ contendere : NOLO
3
Connections : TIES
4
Swarms over : INFESTS
5
Magnates : TYCOONS
6
Lena or Marilyn : HORNE
7
___ fixe (obsession) : IDEE
8
Hockey item : NET
9
Jubilant : GLEEFUL
10
Describing some cars : TWOTONE
11
Talk unintelligibly : RAVE
12
Baker's aide : ICER
13
Yankee Doodle's mount : PONY
21
Guevara : CHE
23
"Where the Boys ___," 1961 song : ARE
25
E.T. or Starman : ALIEN
26
Spa in Austria : BADEN
27
Insect stage : IMAGO
28
Heavy literature? : TOMES
29
Godunov of opera : BORIS
30
Sing-along instrument : ORGAN
31
Blockade : SIEGE
32
Brilliance : ECLAT
35
Hydra or sea anemone : POLYP
41
Go back : REGRESS
42
Wimpole Street resident : BARRETT
43
Police ploy : DRAGNET
44
Pried : SNOOPED
46
Federal watchdog agcy. : GAO
48
Suffix for any cardinal point : ERN
50
Surmise : GUESS
51
Greet : HAIL
52
Legendary monster : OGRE
53
Restrain : REIN
54
Disport : PLAY
55
Explorer De ___ : SOTO
56
Of an age : ERAL
57
Farmer's locale, in a song : DELL
60
Celtic sea god : LER

Answer summary:
2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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