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Bert Rosenfield
Bert Rosenfield

New York Times, Thursday, May 5, 1983

25-Across : French hillside vineyard

Author:
Bert Rosenfield
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 47, Avg Word Len: 4.81, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 50, Cheaters: 16, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Bert Rosenfield has 60 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,231
Across
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Shave the lawn : MOW
4
Ending for cash or cloth : IER
7
Nadelhorn and Adlerhorn : ALPS
11
Summer, in Savoie : ETE
12
Fasten, in Fife : SNIB
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Brünnhilde's way out : PYRE
15
With 53 Across, start of a Sandburg poem : THEFOGCOMESON
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Top card : ACE
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Smitten : INLOVE
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Dyer's need : VAT
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Composer of "The Bohemian Girl" : BALFE
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Rat follower : ATAT
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French hillside vineyard : COTE
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Different: Comb. form : ALLO
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___ nous : ENTRE
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Maui music makers, for short : UKES
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Song by Gershwin : AFOGGYDAY
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In ___ (tousled) : AMESS
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Cry's companion : HUE
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Undefeated coll. 11 in '82 : SMU
34
Make tracks : SCOOT
37
Frequent warning in L.A. : SMOGALERT
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Skylab 4 crew member : CARR
44
Gradient : SLANT
45
Addict : USER
46
Ugandan exile : AMIN
47
Irish name for Ireland : EIRE
48
Nolan Ryan, for one : ASTRO
49
A March : MEG
50
Charlotte ___, a Virgin Islands capital : AMALIE
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Derby : HAT
53
See 15 Across : LITTLECATFEET
57
"___ penny ... " : ONEA
58
Lucid : SANE
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Brunched : ATE
60
Mussorgsky subject : TSAR
61
Black or White : SEA
62
Embarrassed : RED
Down
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Sec. of the Navy: 1906-8 : METCALF
2
James Earl Jones role : OTHELLO
3
Munchkinlike : WEE
4
" ... the Bird ___ the Wing" : ISON
5
Its highest point is Scafell Pike : ENGLAND
6
Manicotti stuffing : RICOTTA
7
Siamang, e.g. : APE
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Scheldt feeder : LYS
9
Nettle : PROVOKE
10
U.S. and state groups : SENATES
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Flaubert's Emma : BOVARY
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"For shame!" : FIE
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Dole out : METE
18
Rhyme scheme : ABAA
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Dick Tracy's Trueheart : TESS
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Loud, strident voice : FOGHORN
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One kind of cloud : CUMULUS
27
Give the double-o : EYE
30
Kind of reaction : GUT
31
Org. founded in 1847 : AMA
33
Tech. or 1st : SGT
34
Grifter's operation : SCAM
35
1960 Broadway musical : CAMELOT
36
Roots : ORIGINS
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Product of wet crushing of ore : SLIMES
38
Latin percussive pair : MARACAS
39
Road repairers' sign : ONELANE
40
Connoisseur : ESTHETE
41
Made a new assessment : RERATED
42
Fox or turkey attachment : TROT
44
___ of approval : SEAL
48
Doughboys' org. : AEF
51
Virginia willow : ITEA
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Boston jetsam : TEA
55
Shale distillate : TAR
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Site for a drum : EAR

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

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