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Bert H. Kruse
Bert H. Kruse

New York Times, Friday, March 14, 1980

27-Across : Halfhearted

Author:
Bert H. Kruse
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q V Y }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Bert H. Kruse has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,084
Across
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Ulster : COAT
5
Pope Pius X : SARTO
10
Leave : PART
14
Goya's duchess : ALBA
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Inventer Howe : ELIAS
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Philosophical poet : OMAR
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Lab technicians, e.g. : PEOPLEOFCULTURE
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Lobe locale : EAR
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Disturbed : UPSET
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Perplexed : ATSEA
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Brief quotation : SNIPPET
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Arabian leaders : EMEERS
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Turned right : GEED
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Halfhearted : TEPID
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On one's toes : ATIP
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Ambulance attachment : SIREN
32
Dip bait lightly : DAP
35
Metermen : CONSTANTREADERS
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Lower extremity : TOE
40
Jannings and Ludwig : EMILS
41
Start of the 10th mo. : OCTI
42
Far from fresh : TRITE
43
Narrate : TELL
45
___ as two peas ... : ASLIKE
48
Navigator's need : SEXTANT
51
Range : SCOPE
52
Andrea or Nicolo of Cremona : AMATI
54
___-même (oneself): Fr. : SOI
55
Epicureans : PEOPLEWITHTASTE
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Else, in Scotland : ENSE
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Fix a shoelace : RETIE
60
Fleet one : DEER
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Have to have : NEED
62
Ending with poet or critic : ASTER
63
Londoners' last letters : ZEDS
Down
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Kin of peninsulas : CAPES
2
N.Y. oil-well center : OLEAN
3
Native : ABORIGINE
4
Beer producer : TAP
5
Percolated : SEEPED
6
Cather's "___ Lady" : ALOST
7
Abounding : RIFE
8
Diplomacy : TACT
9
Inst. at Columbus : OSU
10
Shot a grouse : POTTED
11
Divert : AMUSE
12
More uncommon : RARER
13
D.C. Cabinet post : TREAS
18
Samoan pigeon : LUPE
19
Layer : LAMINA
24
Stimulates, with "up" : PEPS
25
Fencer's steel : EPEE
27
Boxer's aim : TITLE
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Is way off base : ERRS
29
Comport : ACT
30
Excessively : TOO
31
In a ___ (vexed) : SNIT
32
Like a disowned debutante : DECLASSEE
33
Buchwald : ART
34
"___ Love You" : PSI
36
"Working" author : TERKEL
37
French girlfriend : AMIE
38
Dullard : DOLT
42
Gave a pourboire : TIPPED
43
Restraint : TETHER
44
Cobb's "___ Laughing" : EXIT
45
Fluttery poplar : ASPEN
46
Opera segment : SCENE
47
At large : LOOSE
48
French composer of many piano works : SATIE
49
Eminent : NOTED
50
Stadium areas : TIERS
52
Greatly impresses : AWES
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Catcher's need : MITT
56
Proposed amendment, for short : ERA
57
Wood trimmer : ADZ

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

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