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Harold T. Bers
Harold T. Bers

New York Times, Friday, May 9, 1958

40-Down : Comic strip favorite.

Author:
Harold T. Bers
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { B K Q V }, Scrabble score: 310 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Harold T. Bers has 138 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,237
Across
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Calvados capital. : CAEN
5
Actor in lawyer roles. : MUNI
9
Companion of ways. : MEANS
14
River of 1 Across. : ORNE
15
Way out. : EXIT
16
Point to be decided. : ISSUE
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Jocularly, a butler. : MAJORDOMO
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Bête ___. : NOIRE
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Language devised in 1907. : IDO
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Where the Liffey flows. : EIRE
22
Sweet gum tree. : COPALM
23
Alligator of South America. : CAYMAN
25
Half of a compound meaning "wild." : SCARUM
27
Furniture style. : ADAM
29
To ___ (out of reach). : ONESIDE
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Novelist whose real name is Norway. : SHUTE
35
Otically equipped. : EARED
37
Greek letters. : NUS
38
Dessert. : TART
39
Talking birds. : MYNAS
40
Man of Parnassus. : POET
41
Vanishing N.Y.C. structures. : ELS
42
Alloy used for screens, cooking ware, etc. : MONEL
43
Boreas. : NORTH
44
Pacify. : PLACATE
46
Gulp: Colloq. : SWIG
48
Takes a certain subject as one's principal study. : MAJORS
50
Portuguese islands. : AZORES
54
Savile Row artisan. : TAILOR
56
Estuary of the Amazon. : PARA
58
"What a good boy ___!" : AMI
59
Of a bone. : ULNAR
60
High stepper between halves. : DRUMMAJOR
62
Unexcitable person. : STOIC
63
Connecticut campus. : YALE
64
Kismet. : FATE
65
Hengist and ___, Jute chiefs. : HORSA
66
Dressing room emblem. : STAR
67
Next in order. : THEN
Down
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Juvenile "literature." : COMIC
2
Plowed land: Span. : ARADA
3
Revel in. : ENJOY
4
___-Impressionism. : NEO
5
Judge in 1949 trial. : MEDINA
6
Wife: Lat. : UXOR
7
French city with famed Roman arena. : NIMES
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Figure in modernization of Japan. : ITO
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Specialized to a secondary degree (in). : MINORED
10
Part of N. Y. C.'s water system. : ESOPUS
11
Most of Turkey. : ASIAMINOR
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Ridge on the edge of a coin: Var. : NURL
13
Be apparently true. : SEEM
18
English novelist. : READE
22
Bamboo stems. : CANES
24
Dillon of the Westerns. : MATT
26
Atoll substances. : CORALS
28
New Jersey VIP. : MEYNER
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"Tea for Two," for example. : DUET
31
Baltic native. : ESTH
32
Cha-Cha-Cha or Mambo. : STEP
33
Alcorn's predecessor. : HALL
34
Its tip is Polaris. : URSAMINOR
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Chemical suffix. : ANE
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Go by car. : MOTOR
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Comic strip favorite. : POGO
42
A favorite resort of writers. : MAJORCA
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Hyderabad sovereign. : NIZAM
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Dover-to-___. : CALAIS
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Weather prediction. : WARMER
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Dieter of rhyme. : SPRAT
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Relative of 43 Down. : RAJAH
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Behave theatrically: Colloq. : EMOTE
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Bewitching. : SIREN
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Nonsense! : TUSH
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Kind of saxhorn. : ALTO
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Assembly hall: Ger. : AULA
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Bad: Prefix. : DYS
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Opposite of fore. : AFT

Answer summary:
5 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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