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Bert Rosenfield
Bert Rosenfield

New York Times, Friday, January 29, 1988

1-Across : Dept. of Commerce chore

Author:
Bert Rosenfield
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { G K Q X }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Bert Rosenfield has 60 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 13,961
Across
1
Dept. of Commerce chore : CENSUS
7
Well-a-day! : ALAS
11
Bishopric : SEE
14
Liquid part of fat : OLEINE
15
Illustrator Charles ___ Gibson : DANA
16
Danube city : ULM
17
Embroidery on canvas : NEEDLEPOINT
19
Apprehend : NAB
20
Antitussive ingredient : CODEINE
21
It's sometimes golden : OLDIE
23
Pretend : LETON
24
With 51 Across, long-running Broadway musical : PINSAND
26
U.K. carbine : STEN
28
English, to Hoppe : SPIN
30
North Sea feeder : TEES
31
Mideast river : JORDAN
34
Stress : ICTUS
36
Rewards for the QB : TDS
37
Like some words in this puzzle : POINTED
39
Greg Norman, e.g. : PRO
42
W.W. I French soldier : POILU
43
More viscous : ROPIER
45
Invalidate : UNDO
48
N.Y. has 34 : REPS
50
One of a deadly seven : ENVY
51
See 24 Across : NEEDLES
53
Counselor-___ : ATLAW
56
Italian poet : TASSO
57
Arm muscle : TRICEPS
60
N.Y.C. subway line : IRT
61
Chef's concern re chicken dishes : PINFEATHERS
65
Attention : EAR
66
Odds-and-ends holder : ETUI
67
Kind of card or rating : CREDIT
68
Porker's pad : STY
69
Author Grey : ZANE
70
Durbeyfield and Trueheart : TESSES
Down
1
In re: Abbr. : CONC
2
Olive oil: Comb. form : ELEO
3
Don Rickles et al. : NEEDLERS
4
___ lines (mining-claim limits) : SIDEEND
5
Dark, as some streets : UNLIT
6
"___ evil ... " : SEENO
7
Hubbub : ADO
8
Minstrel's offering : LAI
9
Mass. cape : ANN
10
Squelched : SATON
11
Nondieter's treat : SUNDAE
12
May or Stritch : ELAINE
13
Plants solidly : EMBEDS
18
Indites : PENS
22
E.T.O. vehicles : LSTS
24
Scot's ninth-century ally : PICT
25
Bury : INTER
26
Loser to R.B.H.: 1876 : SJT
27
Wool weight : TOD
29
Barracks display : PINUP
32
V-mail dest. : APO
33
"La Tulipe ___": Dumas : NOIRE
35
Japanese salad herb : UDO
38
Seine sights : ILES
39
Southwest forage grasses : PINWEEDS
40
___ Jesse Jackson : REV
41
Early jazzman Kid ___ : ORY
42
Seal groups : PODS
44
Cream's companions : PEACHES
45
Loosens : UNTIES
46
___ hand (adjacent) : NEARAT
47
Stewart role: 1939 : DESTRY
49
Overstuff : SATE
52
Nancy or Trini : LOPEZ
54
Doctrinal pamphlet : TRACT
55
Gas measure, in Montreal : LITRE
58
___-dieu (kneeling bench) : PRIE
59
Atl. whizzers : SSTS
62
Thus, to Ovid : ITA
63
Channel buoy : NUN
64
For shame! : FIE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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