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Bert Rosenfield
Bert Rosenfield

New York Times, Saturday, February 20, 1982

38-Down : In costume

Author:
Bert Rosenfield
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J K Q }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Bert Rosenfield has 60 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,792
Across
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He played Pasteur : MUNI
5
___, Baker, Charlie : ABLE
9
Aglets : TAGS
13
Neroli : ORANGEOIL
15
He painted "Clair de Lune" : DUPRE
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Prepare a data card : PERFORATE
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Deport : EXPEL
18
Miss Sweeney of "Anything Goes" : RENO
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Hebrew letter : MEM
21
Monogram of "The Nun of Amherst" : EED
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Have ___ (watch out) : ACARE
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Words of interest : PRIMERATE
27
Macadamia, e.g. : NUT
28
Yellow or White : SEA
29
Emulates Aiken's Senlin : ARISES
30
Zwei follower : DREI
32
72, usually : PAR
33
More precise : NICER
34
Hammer home : REITERATE
37
Dig find : SHARD
39
Masterson : BAT
40
Harbor vessel : SCOW
44
First-year headgear : BEANIE
45
Milieu for curlers who are hurlers : ICE
46
Salt Lake City athlete : UTE
47
Use a certain route in a dispute : ARBITRATE
49
A Davis : BETTE
51
Sweet age, to Sulla : XVI
52
B.&O. and D.L.&W. : RYS
53
Mosel tributary : SAAR
54
Boxer's prize : TITLE
56
Spread through : PENETRATE
61
"Maria ___," 1933 song : ELENA
62
Not subtle or refined : ELEMENTAL
63
Warren Beatty film : REDS
64
Himmler, for one : NAZI
65
Like some sitcoms : SEXY
Down
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Item wielded by a char : MOP
2
Suffix with press : URE
3
What Chaucer's pilgrims do : NARRATE
4
Imply's opposite, in a way : INFER
5
Baltic island : AERO
6
Nile green : BOA
7
Sozzled : LIT
8
Plastic resin : ELEMI
9
Wear for the maître d' : TUX
10
Do a Chamberlain : APPEASE
11
One in the Kennedy crowd : GREETER
12
He wrote "The Seven Lively Arts" : SELDES
14
Away : GONE
15
Punitive mark : DEMERIT
20
Debouch : EMANATE
22
Furthermore : AND
23
Vile one : CUR
24
Bog product : PEAT
25
Tangy snack : RAREBIT
26
Elmer and Grantland : RICES
28
Long, thin and angular : SPIDERY
31
Apt rhyme for Bani : IRANI
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Its capital is Asmara : ERITREA
36
NASCAR event : RACE
37
Obsequious : SERVILE
38
In costume : HABITED
41
Cheap : CUTRATE
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"Master Melvin" : OTT
43
Minuscule : WEE
44
A Union hero at Gettysburg : BAXTER
48
Western ski center : ASPEN
49
Lessen : BATE
50
Wins bread : EARNS
53
Turnpike rig : SEMI
55
Highway divs. : LNS
57
Guidonian note : ELA
58
Gris or Blanc follower : NEZ
59
Strain : TAX
60
English cathedral city : ELY

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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