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Bernard Meren
Bernard Meren

New York Times, Saturday, February 2, 1991

55-Down : A Nigerian people

Author:
Bernard Meren
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Spans: 6, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Bernard Meren has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,061
Across
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War club : MACE
5
Sacred bull : APIS
9
Vanzetti's friend : SACCO
14
Stravinsky ballet : AGON
15
Something to pick? : BONE
16
Jacob's eighth son : ASHER
17
Giants entertain here : CANDLESTICKPARK
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Laughter, in Lyon : RIS
21
Other : ELSE
22
Region of Saudi Arabia : ASIR
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Ready to serve : ONTAP
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Once, once : ERST
27
Lower Slobbovia founder : CAPP
30
Corrode : RUST
32
Rome's Porta ___ : PIA
33
Corp. chairman : CEO
34
Bari is its capital : APULIA
36
Famed Virginian's monogram : REL
37
Immediately, in prescriptions : STAT
38
Elite listings : SOCIALREGISTERS
41
New Testament book : ACTS
42
Court call : LET
43
Not quite : NEARLY
44
Miss Piggy's favorite pronoun : MOI
45
Soprano Souez : INA
46
Longfellow's bell town : ATRI
47
It's played with a plectrum : ASOR
49
Cartoonist Hulme : ETTA
51
"Romola" character : TESSA
54
Dutch landscape painter : NEER
56
Dictator's phrase : INRE
58
Whip a hide : TAN
59
What a hearty meal does : STICKSTOTHERIBS
63
Must : HASTO
64
Genu : KNEE
65
Freehold unit : ACRE
66
Play part : ACTII
67
Tasmanian peak : OSSA
68
To dare: Sp. : OSAR
Down
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Large: Comb. form : MACRO
2
Once more : AGAIN
3
Certain jurist : CONSTRUCTIONIST
4
Objective : END
5
Elie of newscasting fame : ABEL
6
Hustlers after rustlers : POSSE
7
What 3 Down makes : INTERPRETATIONS
8
Small whale : SEI
9
He directed "The Odd Couple" : SAKS
10
Jiggly dish : ASPIC
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12
Wax: Comb. form : CER
13
Mork's home : ORK
18
Seizure: Comb. form : LEPSIA
19
West Coast island resort : CATALINA
24
Whence Greeks sailed for Troy : AULIS
26
Victory, to Goethe : SIEG
28
Very pale gray : PEARL
29
Hopscotch : POTSY
31
Scorekeepers : TALLIERS
34
Honshu volcano : ASAMA
35
___ de Caldas, Brazilian spa : POCOS
37
Gape : STARE
39
Tear : RENT
40
Couch : SETTEE
48
Straight muscles : RECTI
50
Pot fillers : ANTES
52
Native-born Israeli : SABRA
53
Goose genus : ANSER
55
A Nigerian people : EKOI
57
Mother of Zeus : RHEA
59
Indian sheep : SHA
60
Air Force gp. : TAC
61
Ring dec. : TKO
62
"Kanthapura" author : RAO

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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