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Mel Rosen
Mel Rosen

New York Times, Tuesday, September 28, 1976

44-Across : Chinese truth

Author:
Mel Rosen
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Mel Rosen has 24 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 14 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,908
Across
1
Chatters : GABS
5
___ a hatter : MADAS
10
Diner sign : EATS
14
Vision : IDEA
15
Concerning : ANENT
16
Roentgen's discovery : XRAY
17
Club : FRATERNITY
19
Biblical brother : CAIN
20
British auto needs : TYRES
21
"___ was saying" : ASI
22
Pierre's room : SALLE
23
Grid lineman : END
25
Roman 1151 : MCLIV
27
Seamstresses, at times : PINNERS
31
Capitol figure : SENATOR
35
Inner: Prefix : ESO
36
Prefix for dermis : EPI
38
Russian leader, 1682-1725 : PETERI
39
Suit makings : SERGESANDTWEEDS
43
Bay windows : ORIELS
44
Chinese truth : TAO
45
Old-school item : TIE
46
More sordid : SEAMIER
48
Deli offerings : KNISHES
51
Aegean gulf : SAROS
53
School subj. : SCI
54
Call it ___ : QUITS
57
Prefix for graphy : GEO
59
Provide : ENDUE
63
Ruin : UNDO
64
Solicitude : TENDERNESS
66
Old school : ETON
67
Russian co-op : ARTEL
68
Arden and others : EVES
69
Food fish : SOLE
70
Boris Godunov et al. : TSARS
71
Like Ben Jonson : RARE
Down
1
Xmas offering : GIFT
2
"Not ___ eye in the house" : ADRY
3
Market pessimist : BEAR
4
Glossy fabric : SATEEN
5
Disfigure : MAR
6
Moffo : ANNA
7
Belief in a God : DEISM
8
Horseplay : ANTICS
9
Farm unit : STY
10
Follow in Schliemann's footsteps : EXCAVATE
11
Soviet sea : ARAL
12
Coat or cat : TAIL
13
New Year's Eve word : SYNE
18
Old slave : ESNE
22
Tendon : SINEW
24
Dreiser's brother : DRESSER
26
Atomic particles : LEPTONS
27
Manila money : PESOS
28
Rhone tributary : ISERE
29
Water wheel : NORIA
30
Health place : SPA
32
Means of enforcement : TEETH
33
Do ___ : ORDIE
34
Emerges : RISES
37
Passbook abbr. : INT
40
Diamond, e.g. : GEMSTONE
41
Howe : ELIAS
42
N. or S. ___ : DAK
47
Cowboy-humorist : ROGERS
49
Hockey player, at times : ICER
50
Doomed one : SINNER
52
Wagnerian maiden : SENTA
54
Exam unit: Abbr. : QUES
55
Golden-rule word : UNTO
56
Matinee ___ : IDOL
58
German river : ODER
60
Hindu god : DEVA
61
Addict : USER
62
Being, in philosophy : ESSE
64
Rat-a-___ : TAT
65
City lines : ELS

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

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