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Fred Keller
Fred Keller

New York Times, Wednesday, November 10, 1982

49-Down : Tricolor color

Author:
Fred Keller
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F H J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 256 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Fred Keller has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,055
Across
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Rough Riders trained here : TAMPA
6
Labor : TOIL
10
Famed cartoonist : CAPP
14
Remove private property, legally : ELOIN
15
Boleyn : ANNE
16
Mountain: Comb. form : OREO
17
Starlet's asset : LOOKS
18
Junkman : SCAVENGER
20
Device for Walton : LURE
21
Suffix with Bronx : ITE
22
Interstice : AREOLE
23
Only : SOLE
25
Collections : ANAS
26
"Monkey Trial" defendant : SCOPES
29
Grand Prix timeouts : PITSTOPS
33
Western : OATER
34
Rich vein : LODE
35
Eye defect: Suffix : OPIA
36
Beatles' meter maid : RITA
37
Gambling game : POKER
38
Courteous chappie : GENT
39
Long march : TREK
40
Herbs of grace : RUES
41
"You Don't Know ___," 1929 song : PAREE
42
Sisterhood : SORORITY
44
Facing : TOWARD
45
Film producer Hunter : ROSS
46
Terhune's "___ Dog" : LADA
47
Chunk : GOBBET
50
Rembrandt's "Burgomaster Jan ___" : SIX
51
Dress : GARB
55
False ideas : ILLUSIONS
57
Navigation aid : SONAR
58
Dreg : LEES
59
Brad, e.g. : NAIL
60
___ nous : ENTRE
61
Brazen solicitor : TOUT
62
Suffix with kitchen : ETTE
63
Possession : ASSET
Down
1
Have effect : TELL
2
Baseball family name : ALOU
3
Secure : MOOR
4
Pioneer's slogan on the way west : PIKESPEAKORBUST
5
Opposite of ques. : ANS
6
Fondness; bent : TASTE
7
At all : ONCE
8
___ trice : INA
9
Mediterranean wind : LEVANTER
10
Former transports on the way west : CONESTOGAWAGONS
11
Jason's ship : ARGO
12
Baker's implement : PEEL
13
Lucubrate : PORE
19
Periods : ERAS
21
French pronoun : ILS
24
Poet's word : OER
25
Candy stripers : AIDES
26
Arranges : SORTS
27
"City of Victory" : CAIRO
28
Water mammal : OTTER
29
Calaboose : POKEY
30
"Nabucco," for one : OPERA
31
Ailing sheep : PINER
32
Full : SATED
34
Oafs : LOUTS
37
Uncorrupted : PRISTINE
41
Pea jacket : POD
43
Hinds : ROES
44
Peter's pence : TAX
46
Fabric for gloves : LISLE
47
Tinged with gold : GILT
48
Supermarket item : OLEO
49
Tricolor color : BLEU
50
State of agitation : SNIT
52
Picnic pests : ANTS
53
Steak order : RARE
54
Harte : BRET
56
Cereal grass : OAT
57
Red or Dead : SEA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 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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