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Bert Rosenfield
Bert Rosenfield

New York Times, Saturday, September 18, 1982

4-Across : Texas farmer's acres

Author:
Bert Rosenfield
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.84, Missing: { F G K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
Bert Rosenfield has 60 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,002
Across
1
___ Mahal : TAJ
4
Texas farmer's acres : ARADO
9
Discomfit : ABASH
14
___ Lanka : SRI
15
Of weight, in physics : BARIC
16
Spots for speakers : PODIA
17
Firing-squad order : AIM
18
"Medical Center" actor : CHADEVERETT
20
Malay chief : RAJA
22
Bill Blass's concern : STYLE
23
Wild plum : SLOE
24
Shavetail inst. : OCS
26
"___ Rob," poet Burns : OOR
27
Desinence : END
28
Revolutionary general : ISRAELPUTNAM
34
The common stag : REDDEER
35
Mechlin ___ : LACE
38
"___ thy countrymen ... !": Shak. : STAINTO
39
Liquids used as solvents : ACETALS
42
Med. school subject : ANAT
43
One on a slate : NOMINEE
44
Film writer-producer-director : NORMANPANAMA
48
Nickname for an apple : MAC
51
Corrode : EAT
52
Composer Rorem : NED
53
Mine, in Màcon : AMOI
55
As before : DITTO
58
Apiece : EACH
61
U.S. Navy submarine builder : JOHNHOLLAND
64
Powell's partner : LOY
65
Speechify : ORATE
66
Caught morays : EELED
67
Antiquity, poetically : ELD
68
Nevada city and Italian river : RENOS
69
Singer Della : REESE
70
Compass pt. : ESE
Down
1
Fyodor I, e.g. : TSAR
2
"Non mi dir," e.g. : ARIA
3
Fibber McGee : JIMJORDAN
4
Network initials : ABC
5
Bowl sounds : RAHS
6
Smell ___ : ARAT
7
"___ Ever See a Dream Walking?" : DIDYOU
8
Bobcat's cousin : OCELOT
9
Gibbon, for one : APE
10
Arthurian knight : BORS
11
Operatic maid : ADELE
12
Suppress : SITON
13
Felt odium : HATED
19
Pitcher Ruhle : VERN
21
Evangeline was one : ACADIAN
25
Taken care of : SEENTO
28
Apr. nemesis : IRS
29
___ precedent : SETA
30
Permit : LET
31
In favor of : PRO
32
Former Mexican president : ALEMAN
33
Realto bargain : MATINEE
36
He portrayed Othello : CANADALEE
37
Kind of sch. : ELEM
39
Gloucester's cape : ANN
40
Narc. for one : COP
41
Red or Ross : SEA
45
Adjust the décor : REDO
46
He wrote "The Fight" : MAILER
47
A Churchill successor : ATTLEE
48
Gold oak-leafer : MAJOR
49
Tosca's emotion : AMORE
50
"Little Nellie Kelly" playwright : COHAN
54
Absorbed with : INTO
56
Fabrication : TALE
57
Change for a five : ONES
59
Passes for Hillary : COLS
60
Park abutting the Marble Arch : HYDE
62
"For ___ a jolly ... " : HES
63
He topped A.E.S. twice : DDE

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

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