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Bert H. Kruse
Bert H. Kruse

QUESTIONABLE ART

New York Times, Sunday, June 21, 1981

6-Across : Wampum item

Author:
Bert H. Kruse
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 77, Avg Word Len: 5.28, Missing: { J }, Scrabble score: 572 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 124, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 4, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11
Bert H. Kruse has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,548
Across
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Child saint : AGNES
6
Wampum item : BEAD
10
Professors' world : ACADEME
17
Please : ARRIDE
18
Sore : IRATE
19
Grassy stalks : PEDICELS
21
Painter of "Hebrew With Tablet"? : GRANDMAMOSES
23
Painter of "Potter's Wheel"? : PAULKLEE
24
Hebrew liquid measure : HIN
25
Computer data : INPUTS
26
Painter's need : EASEL
27
Beachhead boat : LCI
28
Skipper's "Stop!" : AVAST
31
Painter of "Fog Over Scotland Yard"? : CONSTABLE
33
German composer: 1840-76 : GOTZ
34
Jewish festival: Var. : SEDAR
35
Legal right : IUS
36
Electrical unit : REL
37
Actress North : SHEREE
39
Tokyo banjo : SAMISEN
41
Choice pork cuts : LOINS
43
Caught, as a dogie : NOOSED
44
___-doing : UPAND
45
Wordsworth work : ODE
46
Early Irish tenant : SAER
47
Lerner-Loewe hit : CAMELOT
50
Painter of "Fish Market Purchase"? : POLLOCK
53
Obtains : GETS
57
Papal garments : ORALES
58
Harris's Fox or Rabbit : BRER
60
Drug plant : ALOE
61
Level : EVEN
62
Sails nearer the wind : LUFFS
63
Interrogate : QUIZ
64
Give off : EMIT
65
White poplar : ABELE
66
Star in Draco : ADIB
67
Change : TURN
68
Used a hatchet : AXED
69
Gladiatorial loci : ARENAE
70
Stitch : SEAM
71
York portraitist? : SARGENT
73
Have a sauna : SWELTER
74
Informal approval : OKAY
76
Seat, with 77 Across : BAR
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See 76 Across : STOOL
78
Less fleshy : SPARER
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Pelota requirement : CESTA
83
Meat slices : COLLOPS
86
Elevates : HOISTS
87
Western athlete : UTE
88
Start of a Butterfly's name : CHO
89
Came to : AWOKE
91
Steak order : RARE
92
He actually painted "Arbor Day" : GRANTWOOD
95
Hudson contemporary : ESSEX
96
Outside: Comb. form : ECT
97
Musical key : EFLAT
99
Transfers a house plant : REPOTS
101
Prefix for light or night : TWI
102
Painter of "Drugstore Cowboy"? : WHISTLER
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Painter of "Ruth at the Plate"? : WINSLOWHOMER
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Musical sound : DEMITONE
108
Great range : ANDES
109
End of a Kansan's motto : ASPERA
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Contends against : REPUGNS
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Parker of films : FESS
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A time of your life : TEENS
Down
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Is successful : ARRIVES
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The Alhambra's city : GRANADA
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Author Anaïs : NIN
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Cousin of a Ph.D. : EDD
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Big truck, for short : SEMI
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Journalist Heywood's family : BROUNS
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Bridge positions : EASTS
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Bomb trial : ATEST
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___ Plaines : DES
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Dismays : APPALLS
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Leave off : CEASE
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Together, in music : ADUE
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Pickle : DILL
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Luther's foe : ECK
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Lady Chatterley's lover : MELLORS
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November winner : ELECTEE
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Moslem commanders : AGHAS
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Confine a canine : IMPOUND
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Took forcibly : SEIZED
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Time-honored : ANCIENT
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Hired-man Holden : EBEN
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Painter of "Telegraph Poles"? : SAMUELFBMORSE
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Big hits : TRIPLES
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Dramatic spirit : ARIEL
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Painter of "The Village Forge"? : GEORGEBELLOWS
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Plumber's tool : SNAKE
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Kind of down : HOE
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Francisco and Paulo : SAOS
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Trini or Vincent : LOPEZ
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What carbon monoxide lacks : ODOR
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Glaswegian : SCOT
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Drinks : COLAS
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"To the mercy/Of ___ stream ... ": Henry VIII : ARUDE
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Puzo subject : MAFIA
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Kind of brain : LAME
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Rank : OLID
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Meet unit : EVENT
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Bodily tissues : TELAE
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Cynical look : SNEER
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"Ironside" actor : BURR
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Call : RING
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Landing spot : QUAY
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Newsboy's shout : EXTRA
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Spaces between veins of leaves : AREOLAE
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Tyrants : TSARS
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Med. subject : ANAT
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Guardhouse candidate : AWOL
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TV's Jones : EBSEN
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___ reason (was logical) : STOODTO
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U.S.S.R. river : KET
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Ashcan, etc. : SCHOOLS
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Cunning : SHREWD
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Thief of a sort : POACHER
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Book about CBS, by Gates: 1978 : AIRTIME
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Poison-producing plants : CURARES
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State, to Mitterrand : ETAT
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Workers for William F. Bolger : POSTMEN
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Barbecue tools : SKEWERS
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Thickets : COPSES
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Iowa town : EXIRA
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Ohio Senator : GLENN
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Threesome : TRINE
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Old Slavic group : WENDS
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Plaintive last words : ETTU
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Beat : FLOG
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Get a fly : SWAT
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Brandy measurement : SIP
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Air Force member : WAF
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Div. of Congress : HSE
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Unclose, to Keats : OPE

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8 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 15 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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