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Bert H. Kruse
Bert H. Kruse

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New York Times, Sunday, February 21, 1993

51-Down : Thai money

Author:
Bert H. Kruse
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 80, Avg Word Len: 5.23, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 546 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 123, Cheaters: 16, FITB: 13, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 20
Bert H. Kruse has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,811
Across
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"___ for All Seasons" : AMAN
5
Mum, e.g. : BEER
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Panay native : ATI
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Hooded menace : COBRA
17
Actress Williams et al. : CARAS
19
Hormone : ENDOCRIN
21
Title for W.E.B. Du Bois, N.A.A.C.P. co-founder : DOCTOR
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Boston Massacre martyr : CRISPUSATTUCKS
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Finesse : OUTWIT
25
River in Wales : USK
26
Monograms of a certain Duke : EKES
27
Chum, for one : BAIT
28
A three-time P.G.A. champ : SNEAD
29
Okla. city or Algonquian : SHAWNEE
31
Entertainer Vereen : BEN
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Gloves in Campanella's closet : MITTS
33
Auriculate : EARED
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College founder and adviser to Presidents : MARYBETHUNE
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Greedy one : HOG
42
Some Bowe blows : SLAPS
43
Actress Ruby ___ : DEE
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Suit material : SERGE
45
Department of Peru : ICA
46
W.W. II landing craft : LST
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Surrealism predecessor : DADA
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Telamon : ATLAS
50
Course for young D. H. Williams : ANAT
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Basketball legend : BILLRUSSELL
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Le ___ (Clemenceau) : TIGRE
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Kind of wheel : COG
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Pot contribution : ANTE
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Polynesian chestnuts : RATAS
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First name of a January honoree : MARTIN
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Singer Franklin and namesakes : ARETHAS
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"R.U.R." playwright : CAPEK
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Naïf, as in a used-car lot : LIVEONE
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Like Basie dance music, e.g. : SMOOTH
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Ancient: Comb. form : PALAE
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Wing, to 54 Across : AILE
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Slave-rebellion leader Turner : NAT
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Rosa of Montgomery's bus boycott : PARKS
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Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman : COLINPOWELL
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"Bus Stop" dramatist : INGE
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Theme : TOPIC
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Dandiprats : TADS
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Logos: Abbr. : TMS
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Summer quencher : ADE
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Larynx affliction : CROUP
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Doughboys, today : GIS
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Did a smithy's job : SHOED
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Loc. of Mayor Dinkins : NYC
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Nobel Peace Prize winner: 1950 : RALPHBUNCHE
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Coat with a metal alloy : TERNE
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Congressman Clayton Powell Jr. et al. : ADAMS
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Babylonian sky god : ANU
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Arboreal African rodent : TREERAT
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Crunching sound : CRUMP
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Spanish painter : SERT
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Ark unit : PAIR
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Inhabitant: Suffix : ITE
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Fats Domino hit of 1954 : LOVEME
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Celebrated Lincoln Memorial soloist : MARIANANDERSON
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Began : OPENED
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In development : EVOLVING
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Quick pick-me-up : SNORT
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Valuable strings, briefly : STRAD
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Benign bump on the skin : WEN
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Barbary swingers : APES
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Handle, in Le Havre : ANSE
Down
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Points the finger at : ACCUSES
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Memorable Supreme Court Justice : MARSHALL
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Dakota Indians : ARIKARAS
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Initials at Pensacola : NAS
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"As might ___ so bright a dame!": Coleridge : BESEEM
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A Spanish queen and namesakes : ENAS
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N.Y. summer time : EDT
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Poppycock : ROT
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Secret : ARCANE
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Heyerdahl's "Kon- ___" : TIKI
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Tuskegee is one: Abbr. : INST
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Harlem Renaissance poet Cullen : COUNTEE
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Musical composition : OCTET
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Educator-author ("Up From Slavery") : BTWASHINGTON
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Riotous, in Scotland : ROID
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Legacy of Aaron Douglas : ART
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Disburses : SPENDS
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Spicy berry : CUBEB
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Medications : DOSINGS
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Oahu instr. : UKE
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Emulated Niobe : WEPT
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Court break for Zina Garrison, e.g. : BYE
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A creation of 95 Across : MURAL
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Confuse : ADDLE
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Kind of admiral : REAR
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Meat entree : TSTEAK
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___ Kitchen, in Manhattan : HELLS
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Musician's sweet potato : OCARINA
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Rabbit trap : GATENET
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Oldie introduced by Ethel Waters: 1924 : DINAH
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Hts. : ALTS
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" ... swine ran violently down ___ place ... ": Matt. 8:32 : ASTEEP
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English river : AIRE
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Thai money : BAHTS
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Language family : URALIC
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Heartwood of an E. Indian tree : SAPAN
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Imported rosé : TAVEL
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Eurasian sea : CASPIAN
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Eugene ___, memorable conductor : ORMANDY
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Botanist who upgraded the South's economy : GEORGECARVER
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___ Brothers of songdom : MILLS
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Portion of bread, in Britain : TOKE
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Muslim ruler : CALIPH
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Berlin song : LIED
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Kind of toaster : POPUP
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Sinking : AWASH
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Becomes less friendly : COOLS
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Auditory : OTIC
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Took a hike : TRAMPED
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"Of ___ I Sing" : THEE
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Pulitzer Prize novelist Toni ___ : MORRISON
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Brooke, once, and Braun, now : SENATORS
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Stuffed : CRAMMED
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Kokoon : GNU
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Cubic meters : STERES
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International easing of discord : DETENTE
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Financial-news editor-publisher: 1855-1928 : BARRON
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Bromfield's "___ the Day Break" : UNTIL
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Ponds, in Paris : ETANGS
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Spanish landlady : DUENA
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Free (of) : RID
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Certain Egyptian : COPT
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Hootamaganzy : SMEW
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This has a soffit : EAVE
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Sheet of stamps : PANE
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___ Alamos : LOS
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Former Burmese capital : AVA
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Piquancy : NIP
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Kind of virus : RNA

Answer summary:
13 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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