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Harvey Berg
Harvey Berg

New York Times, Friday, February 11, 1977

41-Down : Work on a Christmas tree

Author:
Harvey Berg
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 314 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 6, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Harvey Berg has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,044
Across
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Kind of mark or slinger : HASH
5
Places for pigs : POKES
10
Certain old-woman's home : SHOE
14
Greek pitcher : OLPE
15
Omit : ELIDE
16
Before meeny : EENY
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Gift for Lorelei Lee : DIAMONDNECKLACE
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Downcast : SAD
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Kind of party : STAG
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Become incensed : SEERED
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Before : ERE
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Obtained : GOT
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Prefix for arctic : ANT
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Developed : RIPE
30
Accord with : BEFIT
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Napoleon, before Elba : ABLE
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Mistaken, in Malaga : ERRADO
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Trampled : TROD
39
Scandinavian rug : RYA
40
Greetings for British liners : HAILTOTHEQUEENS
43
Kind of word: Abbr. : ADV
44
Dry : SERE
45
Like beds at times : UNMADE
46
Kind of sighted : NEAR
48
Sentry's need : RIFLE
50
Music-makers : UKES
51
Banana or notch : TOP
53
Flightless bird : MOA
54
Can or tray : ASH
55
Kind of railway : SCENIC
58
Liszt opus: Abbr. : RHAP
60
Goose eggs : OOO
63
Low card in the bridge deck : THEDEUCEOFCLUBS
66
String toy : YOYO
67
Port of Iraq : BASRA
68
___ Minor : ASIA
69
Farm animals : EWES
70
Record : ENTER
71
Fleet animal : DEER
Down
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Bricklayers' needs : HODS
2
Inter ___ : ALIA
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Sam ___ (words on a tec's door) : SPADEPRIVATEEYE
4
Kind of stitch : HEM
5
Shut in : PENT
6
Time of life : OLDAGE
7
The oak tree : KINGOFTHEFOREST
8
Dutch town : EDE
9
Parts of mins : SECS
10
Moon goddess : SELENA
11
G. B. Shaw play : HEARTBREAKHOUSE
12
___ and for all : ONCE
13
Like peacocks' tails : EYED
18
Full of: Suffix : OSE
19
Green parrot : KEA
24
Kind of estate : REAL
26
Bore : TIRE
28
Actress Ada : REHAN
29
Moslem decree : IRADE
30
Disapproving fan : BOOER
31
Brimless hat : TOQUE
33
Comedian Paul : LYNDE
34
Moves carefully : EASES
36
Drinkers' woes: Abbr. : DTS
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Horse color : DUN
41
Work on a Christmas tree : TRIM
42
Large birds : EMUS
47
Sonata movements : RONDOS
49
City of Pakistan : LAHORE
52
Dessert : PIE
54
Aspirin compound: Abbr. : APC
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Eye ailment: Var. : STYE
56
Hound or line : CHOW
57
Third power : CUBE
59
From a distance : AFAR
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Theater award : OBIE
62
Glacial ridges : OSAR
64
Half a dance : CAN
65
Youth : LAD

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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