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Timothy Hoy
Timothy Hoy

New York Times, Thursday, May 8, 1980

Author:
Timothy Hoy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { F K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 8.8
Timothy Hoy has 7 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,139
Across
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Small error : SLIP
5
"___ Man a Future?": B. Russell : HAS
8
Court-martial : TRIAL
13
Colonizer De La ___ : WARR
14
Discourteous : RUDE
15
Plant of the agave family : YUCCA
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Relative of the above : ALOE
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Beyond senescence : AGED
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Like some hot potatoes : RICED
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British warehouse or van : PANTECHNICON
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Imbroglio : MELEE
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Thrash : TAN
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Singer Davis : MAC
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Devices for removing cherry pits : STONERS
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Top off the cake : ICE
30
Proposed 27th Amendment : ERA
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Himalayan carnivore : PANDA
32
Tittle : JOT
33
Greek letters : PSIS
34
Sled used by Swiss : LUGE
35
Native of Muscat : OMANI
37
Floral symbol of England : ROSE
38
Maddened : IRED
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Succeeded : WON
40
Disney dwarf : DOPEY
41
Mongrel : CUR
42
African antelope : GNU
43
Waiters, French style : GARCONS
45
Curve : ESS
46
Author Deighton : LEN
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William ___ Gladstone : EWART
48
Traveling bags : PORTMANTEAUS
52
Parrot : MACAW
55
What a Mexican whistles : AIRE
56
Both: Prefix : AMBI
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Truth, in folklore : ADAGE
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___'Orléans : ILED
59
Layer : TIER
60
Christened : NAMED
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Foster's "Old Uncle ___" : NED
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Listening devices : EARS
Down
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Barter : SWAP
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Tra followers : LALA
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Hardware merchants, in Hampshire : IRONMONGERS
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Made believe : PRETENDED
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Howard or Langston : HUGHES
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Capital of South Yemen : ADEN
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Alien and ___ Acts : SEDITION
8
Former county in Northern Ireland : TYRONE
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Destroy : RUIN
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RR regulator : ICC
11
Tennis coup : ACE
12
Stripling : LAD
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Type of snake : RACER
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Home of Zeno's philosophy : ELEA
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Potted plants : CACTI
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Christie's "Murder in ___" : MESOPOTAMIA
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Ascended : ARISEN
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Stengel and Jones : CASEYS
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Joint : SPLICE
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Zodiac sign : TAURUS
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Author Struther : JAN
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Beget : PROCREATE
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Possessor : OWNER
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Fuji is one : MOUNTAIN
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Expression of annoyance : DRAT
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Shone : GLOWED
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Harnessed : GEARED
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Bearded like the oat : AWNED
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Knight's attendant : PAGE
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Eight furlongs : MILE
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"Deutschland ___ alles" : UBER
51
Olivier, Gielgud et al. : SIRS
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Homo sapiens : MAN
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Nabokov work : ADA
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Moving piece of machinery : CAM

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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