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Bert Rosenfield
Bert Rosenfield

New York Times, Friday, May 6, 1988

70-Across : "___ pin and pick it up"

Author:
Bert Rosenfield
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { G J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, 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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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,059
Across
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Neighbor of N.D. : SASK
5
An Indian cotton : SURAT
10
Elec. unit : AMP
13
Old Grecian oil flask : OLPE
14
Invitation to a customer : STEPIN
16
Beckett's "___ Knife" : NOS
17
Legend on a souvenir pillow : FIRYEWIPINE
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Call ___ day : ITA
20
Maltreat : ABUSE
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Brava or Rica preceder : COSTA
22
Pt. of a utility title : TEL
23
"___ transit ... " : SIC
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Kind of glove : LEATHERPALM
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To live, to Livy : ESSE
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"___ Rosenkavalier" : DER
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General's gofer : AIDE
32
Overwhelm : ROUT
36
Exclude : DEBAR
40
Morose : SOUR
41
Late comic Jack : OAKIE
43
In ___ (properly placed) : SITU
44
Small songbird : PIPIT
46
Greg Norman accessories : TEES
47
Deuce taker : TREY
48
Kiang, e.g. : ASS
50
N.T. book : APOC
52
Ice-cream flavor : MAPLEWALNUT
58
Its first emp. was Otto : HRE
61
Corrida cheer : OLE
62
Haitian rum : TAFIA
63
___ day (fasting period) : EMBER
65
Kind of tide : RIP
66
A demulcent : SLIPPERYELM
68
"___ port in a storm" : ANY
69
More spooky : EERIER
70
"___ pin and pick it up" : SEEA
71
Kind of man : YES
72
Taste or touch : SENSE
73
Very, in Verdun : TRES
Down
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Divans : SOFAS
2
Defense ploy : ALIBI
3
Looking sharp : SPRUCEDUP
4
Fla. locales : KEYS
5
Calais-to-Le Mans dir. : SSW
6
City on the Mohawk : UTICA
7
Do a greenhouse job : REPOT
8
Imitative : APISH
9
Like some spectacles : TINTED
10
Santa ___, Calif. : ANITA
11
Imaret, American style : MOTEL
12
One of a biblical 150 : PSALM
15
Crept up on : NEARED
18
Kin of nine-eyes : EELS
25
Architecture's Saarinen : EERO
26
Word from Doug Henning : PRESTO
28
Pearl White vehicle : SERIAL
30
Nile viper : ASP
31
First year of the second century : IOI
33
Morsel for Dobbin : OAT
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Godfrey strummed one : UKE
35
Foulard : TIE
37
Pre-cola soft drink : BIRCHBEER
38
Took tiffin : ATE
39
___ Lopez (chess gambit) : RUY
42
Early pottage fancier : ESAU
45
African menace : TSETSE
49
Marshy places : SWALES
51
Wing: Comb. form : PTER
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Hazard for skin divers : MORAY
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Wife in an Ibsen play : ALINE
54
Dryden contemporary : PEPYS
55
In flames : AFIRE
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Fatty compound : LIPIN
57
Scruffs : NAPES
59
G. G. Meade's Gettysburg foe : RELEE
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Bombeck's namesakes : ERMAS
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Van Dine prod. : MYST
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Before, either way : ERE

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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