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Joe Clonick
Joe Clonick

New York Times, Saturday, May 23, 1981

Author:
Joe Clonick
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J K Q V X }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 33.7 Grid has duplicate clues.
Joe Clonick has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,519
Across
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President, actor or actress : ADAMS
6
President, comedian or actress : WILSON
12
Footstool : OTTOMAN
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May and Stritch : ELAINES
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Toxic liquid : BROMINE
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Ancestry : LINEAGE
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Nol of Cambodia : LON
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Item cast at a casino : DIE
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Stripling : LAD
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" ... for me and my ___" : GAL
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Wou-wous : APES
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" ... faces in the ___": Pound : CROWD
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Honor : FETE
27
Pithy : TERSE
29
"No seats" sign : SRO
30
Philosopher Kierkegaard : SOREN
31
Ancient ascetic : ESSENE
33
Co-writer of "What Kind of Fool Am I?" : BRICUSSE
35
Study group : SEMINAR
37
Mousse au ___ : CHOCOLAT
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Sister of Moses : MIRIAM
46
Nongregarious one : LONER
47
Lynx or cougar : CAT
49
Barry or Robert of film fame : MORSE
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Fit to ___ : ATEE
51
Derived from apples : MALIC
53
Prepare a salad : TOSS
54
Japanese statesman : ITO
55
Ethylene, e.g. : GAS
56
Fabled bird : ROC
58
She wrote "The House of Incest": 1949 : NIN
59
Leaseholders : RENTERS
61
Worship : IDOLIZE
63
Soviet republic : ESTONIA
64
Those imposing retribution : NEMESES
65
President, actor or actress : TAYLOR
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President, actor or actress : GRANT
Down
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Expiators : ATONERS
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Monastic title : DOM
3
Surrounded by : AMID
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___-depressive : MANIC
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Shows scorn : SNEERS
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Commonplace : WELLWORN
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Epic about a siege : ILIAD
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Alight : LAND
9
They, in Thüringen : SIE
10
Wild asses or catapults : ONAGERS
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Invalidates : NEGATES
12
Flattened at the poles : OBLATE
13
Figures of speech : TROPES
15
Moon goddess : SELENE
23
Dir. : SSE
25
Like a satellite's path : ORBITAL
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Crazy, in Crécy : FOU
28
Belgian Surrealist: 1860–1949 : ENSOR
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Sheer cloth used for curtains : SCRIM
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Conger : EEL
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"___ a Camera" : IAM
36
Indonesian port or hair oil : MACASSAR
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Chennault of Air Force fame : CLAIRE
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Most peppery : HOTTEST
39
New York city : ONEONTA
40
Third letter : CEE
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Putrefy : ROT
43
Socrates, at times : IRONIST
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Judicial inquiry : ASSIZE
45
Certain feudal lords : MESNES
48
Somewhat weary : TIRING
51
Lanza or Cavaradossi : MARIO
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Cryptographer : CODER
55
Mil. rank of 37 Down : GENL
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Book by Robin Cook : COMA
60
Bandalore, e.g. : TOY
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Deighton or Dawson : LEN

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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