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Bert Beaman
Bert Beaman

New York Times, Saturday, October 14, 1967

23-Down : Irksome.

Author:
Bert Beaman
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 1, XRef: 6, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Bert Beaman has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,636
Across
1
Mansard. : ROOF
5
Cough: Sp. : TOS
8
Harm, old style. : SCATHE
14
Italian city. : BARI
15
Month: Abbr. : OCT
16
Coconut meats. : COPRAS
17
With 23, 36, 43 and 51 Across, quotation from Plutarch. : IFALLTHE
19
Significance. : IMPORT
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Secured. : MOORED
22
Part of a river. : MOUTH
23
See 17 Across. : WORLDWEREJUST
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Remove to a distance: Law. : ELOIGN
28
Locus. : SITE
29
Similar. : ALIKE
30
Kitchen utensil. : SIEVE
32
Prefix with let or lease. : SUB
35
Annoy: Dial. : RILE
36
See 17 Across. : THERE
37
I sing: Lat. : CANO
38
"I do." : YES
39
Courage. : HEART
40
Dine at home. : EATIN
41
Boom. : ROAR
42
Robin Goodfellow, for one. : SPRITE
43
See 17 Across. : WOULDBENONEED
46
Special menus. : DIETS
48
Quartz constituent. : SILICA
49
Cremona products. : AMATIS
51
See 17 Across. : OFVALOUR
55
Corvine birds. : RAVENS
56
Cravat. : TIE
57
Girl of song. : LULU
58
Appear. : EMERGE
59
Beast: Abbr. : ANL
60
River to the North Sea. : YSER
Down
1
Baseball term. : RBI
2
Lummox. : OAF
3
Pray: Lat. : ORA
4
Gauzy. : FILMLIKE
5
Go ___. : TOTOWN
6
Yellow pigment. : OCHRE
7
Pilot. : STEER
8
Physics, for one: Abbr. : SCI
9
Travel, in a way. : COMMUTE
10
Place side by side. : APPOSE
11
Fish. : TROUT
12
Cervine animal. : HART
13
Native of Tallinn. : ESTH
18
Country home. : LODGE
21
Abandon. : DESERT
23
Irksome. : WEARY
24
Kukla's friend. : OLLIE
25
Vexes. : ROILS
26
Music of a sort. : JIVE
30
Fragments, as of pottery. : SHARDS
31
Noun suffix. : IER
32
French composer. : SATIE
33
Join. : UNITE
34
Like some fish. : BONED
36
Small duck. : TEAL
37
Sensually. : CARNALLY
39
Big-city problem. : HOUSING
40
Era: Sp. : EPOCA
41
Scoundrel, British style. : ROTTER
42
Whine. : SNIVEL
43
Spin. : WEAVE
44
Flora and fauna. : BIOTA
45
Like 42 Across. : ELFIN
46
Virginia of Virginia, 1587. : DARE
47
Moslem leader. : IMAM
50
Direction. : SSE
52
Full of: suffix. : OUS
53
Caucho. : ULE
54
Capek opus. : RUR

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

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