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Bernard Meren
Bernard Meren

New York Times, Saturday, October 7, 1989

19-Across : Exploit

Author:
Bernard Meren
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 66, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.73, Missing: { F J Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Bernard Meren has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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T
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A
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R
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T
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H
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O
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V
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K
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Y
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W
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K
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,578
Across
1
Group of 11 Across : DROVE
6
Character : STAMP
11
Oxen and cows : BEEVES
12
Loyalists of George III : TORIES
14
They babble on and on : RANTERS
15
Like a rat ___ : INATRAP
17
Cross : INTERSECT
19
Exploit : GESTE
20
Similar : AKIN
21
Make into law : ENACT
23
Long Island park : RIIS
24
Seed integument : TESTA
26
Upper regions of space : ETHER
28
Nigerian native : ARO
29
Manet or Monet : ARTIST
31
Leading ladies : HEROINES
33
Cloth for G.I. garb : OLIVEDRAB
35
Cuomo was one in 1984 : KEYNOTER
38
Store fodder : ENSILE
42
Ancient capital of Myanmar : AVA
43
Dried-up desert streams : WADIS
45
Seat, in Siena : SEDIA
46
Superman's alter ego : KENT
48
Bilbao babes : NENES
50
Monster's loch : NESS
51
Singer-composer Paul and family : ANKAS
53
Mild : TEMPERATE
55
Caviar source : STERLET
57
Conned : PILOTED
58
Til : SESAME
59
Dervish, for one : REELER
60
Scenes : SITES
61
Ouphs : ELVES
Down
1
William Thomas Green Morton was one : DENTIST
2
Memory : RETENTION
3
Throughout : OVER
4
Forte of William Meredith : VERSE
5
Ancient native of Qumran : ESSENE
6
Basted : STITCHED
7
Won ___ (Chinese soup) : TON
8
"To ___ and a bone ... ": Kipling : ARAG
9
Bishopric : MITER
10
"One man's Mede is another man's ___" : PERSIAN
11
Coal-furnace tender, at times : BANKER
13
Lucilius's forte : SATIRE
14
Dogie catcher : RIATA
16
Mexican mazuma : PESOS
18
Name of three of Henry VIII's wives : CATHERINE
22
___-verte (green pigment for 29 Across) : TERRE
25
"On ___ Boat to China" : ASLOW
27
Chestnut horses : ROANS
30
Coeus or Crius : TITAN
32
Nora Helmer or Hedda Tessman : IBSENROLE
34
Old naval scouting launches : VEDETTES
35
New Zealand parrots : KAKAS
36
What reporters cover : EVENTS
37
New Englanders : YANKEES
39
Conceives : IDEATES
40
Antiseptic-surgery pioneer : LISTER
41
Let up : EASED
44
Always, in music : SEMPRE
47
Where the astragali are : TARSI
49
Pitch : SPIEL
52
Mattress support : SLAT
54
Alt. : ELEV
56
Highlander's uncle : EME

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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