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Bernard Meren
Bernard Meren

New York Times, Saturday, June 8, 1991

65-Across : Rats

Author:
Bernard Meren
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 30, Avg Word Len: 5.42, Missing: { F J K Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 249 (avg 1.28)
Open Squares: 93, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, 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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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,187
Across
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In dire straits : DESPERATE
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Flavor : SAPOR
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Pertaining to the joints : ARTICULAR
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Treasure chaser : TROVE
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Long-tailed monkeys : MARMOSETS
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Ancient two-wheeled chariot : ESSED
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Ditty bag's cousin : ETUI
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Map in a map : INSET
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To be, in Toulon : ETRE
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"___ to Watch Over Me," 1926 song : SOMEONE
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Vouch : ASSURE
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Helm dir. : NNE
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Pedro's parlor : SALA
30
Book before Ezek. : LAM
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Word with work or fence : SPITE
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___-Powell, Boy Scouts founder : BADEN
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Goddess of infatuation : ATE
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Kind of auger : TENON
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Canticle : ODE
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Librarian's gadget : DATER
40
T.L.C. dispensers : RNS
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Of a Great Lake : ERIAN
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Sanctify : BLESS
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From ___ Z : ATO
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Sea dog : SALT
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Hoover, for one : DAM
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Rather wan : PALISH
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Shawls in Sonora : SERAPES
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Big men's sizes: Abbr. : LGES
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U.S. spy satellite : SAMOS
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Tall, reedlike grass : GAMA
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White-tailed sea birds : ERNES
60
Outer border : PERIMETER
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Hallowed: Comb. form : SACRO
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Invested with responsibility : ENTRUSTED
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Pintails : SMEES
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Rats : DESERTERS
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Scarcity in "South Pacific" : DAMES
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One of the Nereids : ERATO
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Play a mandolin : STRUM
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Stuffing for olives : PIMIENTO
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Author Umberto ___ : ECO
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Describing some antlers : RUSINE
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Coeur d'___, Idaho : ALENE
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Makes lace : TATS
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Gaelic : ERSE
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___ Anne de Beaupré : STE
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Musical upbeats : ARSES
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Claim : POSTULATE
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Assesses too highly : OVERRATES
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Saviors : REDEEMERS
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Märchen : TALE
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Unity : ONENESS
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Shoal : SANDBAR
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Mubarak's predecessor : SADAT
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Arabia's Gulf of ___ : ADEN
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Like some gowns : STRAPLESS
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Star-shaped figure : PENTAGRAM
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Cheek : INSOLENCE
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Seethe : BOIL
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Ptolemy's work on astronomy : ALMAGEST
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Calls from Joe College : RAHS
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T.W.'s streetcar : DESIRE
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Grenoble's river : ISERE
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Genres : SORTS
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Paw, in Pau : PATTE
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Middle East prince : EMEER
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Chalcedonies : SARDS
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Parroted : APED
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Start of the handwriting on the wall : MENE
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Morse recourse? : SOS
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Austrian-Yugoslav river : MUR

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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