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Bert Rosenfield
Bert Rosenfield

New York Times, Friday, February 28, 1986

51-Down : Say suddenly

Author:
Bert Rosenfield
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 59, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Bert Rosenfield has 60 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,261
Across
1
Leave-taking : CONGE
6
Run off, orally : BLAB
10
Beldam : HAG
13
"It Seems to Me " was his column : BROUN
14
Kind of earth : RARE
15
Magnitogorsk's river : URAL
17
Battle of Saratoga site : STILLWATER
19
Six on a Vegas cube : SISE
20
Reach for the stars : ASPIRE
21
Drive-in personnel : CARHOPS
23
Latin infinitive : ESSE
24
Cloys : SATIATES
25
Diplomat Linowitz : SOL
27
Ankles : TALI
29
Recede : EBB
30
Stout : ALE
31
The three R's : SKILLS
33
Catcher for Allie : YOGI
37
Billiard contact : KISS
39
Oahu ornament : LEI
40
Phillips U. site : ENID
41
Pedestrian : SOSO
42
Honshu hurrah : BANZAI
45
Essay : TRY
46
Kind of cry : FAR
48
First farmer : CAIN
49
Neighbor of Wis. : ILL
50
Recondite : ABSTRUSE
54
Clammy : DAMP
56
Able to resile : ELASTIC
57
Renders obsessed : BESOTS
59
Folk singer Tom : RUSH
60
Impervious, in a way : SOUNDPROOF
63
Approximately : ORSO
64
Part of a homer : EPHA
65
Rich or Dunne : IRENE
66
Nautical fastener : TYE
67
Challenge : DEFI
68
___ out (barely beaten) : NOSED
Down
1
Network logo : CBS
2
Lake in Italy : ORTA
3
Very quiet : NOISELESS
4
Eats like Fido : GULPS
5
Takes the queen's shilling : ENLISTS
6
Highland hillside : BRAE
7
It's 34°, for L.A. : LAT
8
Betel nuts' source : ARECA
9
Chews out : BERATES
10
Suggestion to Baby : HUSHABYE
11
Tumultuous : ARIOT
12
Quebec's scenic peninsula : GASPE
16
Bottom or end ending : LESS
18
Inflict : WREAK
22
Vaulting arch : RIB
24
Courtroom admonition : SILENCE
25
Egyptian cottons : SAKS
26
Hodgepodge : OLIO
28
Actress Kedrova : LILA
32
Gershwin song : LIZA
34
How to proceed through a tulip bed : ONTIPTOES
35
Lass : GIRL
36
Eclogue : IDYL
38
Ray Bolger specialty : SOFTSHOE
42
Like mint leaves in some juleps : BRUISED
43
Pitched in : AIDED
44
Bewildered : INASPIN
47
___ Deco : ART
50
Flying machine : AERO
51
Say suddenly : BLURT
52
Mouthing off : SASSY
53
Purview : SCOPE
55
Castro's capital's castle : MORRO
57
___ B'rith : BNAI
58
Loudness unit : SONE
61
Channel-selector position : UHF
62
T-man : FED

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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