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Bernard Meren
Bernard Meren

New York Times, Saturday, January 2, 1993

1-Down : Trots

Author:
Bernard Meren
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.29, Missing: { F J K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 243 (avg 1.31)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Bernard Meren has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,761
Across
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Whittled : PARED
6
Thicket : COPSE
11
Quarry : STONEPIT
14
Like Rich Stadium at playoff time : AROAR
15
Wife of Odysseus : PENELOPE
16
Pioneer in high-tension electricity : TESLA
17
"Persistence of Memory," etc. : DALIS
18
Wrist blow : SLAP
20
Siouan group : OTOS
21
Atlas feature : INSET
22
Biblical duke : OMAR
24
Scottish uncle : EME
25
Morse-code words : DITS
26
Pro ___ (for the nonce) : TEM
28
Jolly boat : TENDER
30
Actress Massen : OSA
31
Long discourse : TREATISE
33
Acknowledge defeat : THROWINTHETOWEL
38
"Turn O Libertad" composer : SESSIONS
39
Rock producer-musician : ENO
40
Pamper : COSSET
43
Ax : CUT
44
Windmill part : VANE
45
Where angels worship? : ARA
46
Soft mineral : TALC
48
Worries : CARES
49
Word with driver or hammer : PILE
51
Palindromic time : NOON
53
Ex-President of Costa Rica : ARIAS
54
Pointed arch : OGIVE
56
Got one's dander up : BRISTLED
58
Baby boys, in Burgos : NENES
59
Fizzles : SPUTTERS
60
Año beginning : ENERO
61
"What thou ___, write ... ": Rev. 1:11 : SEEST
Down
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Trots : PONIES
2
"___ of robins ... " : ANEST
3
Bro. or dau. : REL
4
Heroic poetry : EPOS
5
State Department group : DIPLOMATICCORPS
6
Margay, e.g. : CAT
7
Mountain: Comb. form : OREO
8
Kept up-to-date : POSTED
9
Deli dancer? : SALOME
10
Classroom missile? : ERASER
11
Colo.'s ___ Peaks : SPANISH
12
Communications satellite : TELSTAR
13
Yoke; crew : TEAM
17
Famed name in printing : DIDOT
19
Like Griselda : PATIENT
23
Notations on scores : RESTS
26
Wagner's Cornish knight : TRISTAN
27
Sunset times, to bards : EENS
29
Avant-gardist : NEO
31
Aviary sound : TWEET
32
Grand, for short : THOU
34
Netherlands city : OSS
35
More toilworn : WEARIER
36
Septets plus duets : ENNEADS
37
Fertile soil : LOESS
40
Head over heels in Chicago : CAPONE
41
Alexandrian writer-theologian : ORIGEN
42
Like some solutions : SALINE
44
Rascal of yore : VARLET
47
Graf ploys : LOBS
48
Suffragette Carrie's family : CATTS
50
Ad infinitum : EVER
52
Savage Island : NIUE
55
That, in Valencia : ESO
57
Sault ___ Marie : STE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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