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Bernard Meren
Bernard Meren

New York Times, Saturday, March 11, 1989

21-Down : Tecs, at times

Author:
Bernard Meren
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.56, Missing: { B J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Bernard Meren has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,368
Across
1
Thalian : COMIC
6
Moved in and out of traffic : WEAVED
12
El ___ (plush place) : DORADO
13
Home of the Gewürztraminer grape : ALSACE
14
Events of long, long ago : ANCIENTHISTORY
17
Schuss : SKI
18
Sewing or washing follower : MACHINE
19
Bow chaser : TIE
20
Baff the golf ball : LOFT
22
Paris divider : SEINE
23
Some like them hot : RODS
24
Brain passages : ITERS
26
Seminary deg. : DRE
27
Dancer Jeanmaire : RENEE
28
Budgerigar : PARAKEET
30
Doomed ones : GONERS
31
Christmas-tree adornment : CANDYCANE
33
C.P.A.'s listing : ASSETS
36
Turkish saber : YATAGHAN
40
Strike minus one : SPARE
41
Stylograph : PEN
42
Defunct alliance acronym : SEATO
43
Hebrew letters : SINS
44
Abbie's pal in comics : SLATS
46
Device for collecting plankton : DNET
47
Berenson's subject : ART
48
Ernest Bloch symphony : AMERICA
50
Donna of musical fame in radio : DAE
51
Find at Qumran : DEADSEASCROLLS
54
Ekberg and Baker : ANITAS
55
Turban cloth in India : LUNGEE
56
Lampoon : SATIRE
57
Descendant of Mohammed : EMEER
Down
1
Spruce, e.g. : CONIFER
2
Grampus : ORC
3
Disable : MAIM
4
What Dorcas Cochran gets in a 1951 song : IDEAS
5
Gave in : CONCEDED
6
Lei-land lass? : WAHINE
7
"___ Vere," book by Couperus : ELINE
8
African fox : ASSE
9
Kier : VAT
10
Transition zone between two plant communities : ECOTONE
11
Pooh-poohing person : DERIDER
12
Sioux Indian : DAKOTA
15
War of yore : THIRTYYEARS
16
Ayes : YESES
17
Liner's landing place : SLIP
21
Tecs, at times : TRACERS
23
Goofed in bridge : RENEGED
25
Ray : SKATE
27
Barrett and Jaffe : RONAS
29
U.S.N.A. grad : ENS
30
Roscoe : GAT
32
Hymn of praise : CANTICLE
33
Syrian leader : ASSAD
34
Easter plants : SPIREAS
35
Guitarist-singer Carlos ___ : SANTANA
37
Pug's trainer : HANDLER
38
Military order : ATEASE
39
Score unit : NOTE
41
Satisfy : PLEASE
44
Campaign calumny : SMEAR
45
Rugby play : SCRUM
48
Piedmontese place : ASTI
49
Prime : AONE
52
Dah's counterpart : DIT
53
Opposite of sml. : LGE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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