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Bernard Meren
New York Times, Tuesday, June 28, 1988
44-Down : Busts
Author:
Bernard Meren
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.25, Missing: { B F J K Q W X }, Scrabble score: 248 (avg 1.31)
Open Squares: 97, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Bernard Meren has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 A | 3 L | 4 T | 5 I | 6 N | 7 E | 8 R | 9 A | 10 V | 11 A | 12 G | 13 E | 14 S |
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15 E | L | E | A | N | O | R | 16 A | D | A | M | A | N | T |
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17 R | E | G | R | E | T | S | 18 R | I | N | A | L | D | O |
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19 G | R | A | Z | E | R | 20 R | E | T | E | 21 L | O | P |
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22 E | T | T | A | 23 E | 24 N | A | 25 T | A | R | P |
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26 S | E | E | N | 27 A | C | 28 I | 29 S | 30 A | N | S | E |
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31 R | E | S | 32 T | 33 P | E | R | O | 34 R | A | T | E | D |
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35 A | 36 S | P | H | A | L | T | ||||||||
37 A | 38 P | 39 P | 40 O | R | T | I | O | N | 41 S | 42 P | 43 A | 44 D | ||
45 T | R | E | Y | 46 S | E | R | I | 47 A | C | E | 48 D |
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49 T | E | L | L | 50 S | S | 51 S | 52 R | E | M | I |
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53 E | P | I | 54 R | 55 O | 56 U | E | 57 P | 58 A | T | T | O | N |
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59 S | A | C | 60 H | E | M | S | 61 S | A | T | I | A | T | E |
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62 T | R | A | I | N | E | E | 63 T | R | E | A | T | E | R |
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64 S | E | N | S | O | R | S | 65 U | S | E | L | E | S | S |
© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,112
Across
1
Cracker : SALTINE
8
Sacks : RAVAGES
15
Dancer Powell : ELEANOR
16
Obdurate : ADAMANT
17
Porter's "Miss Otis ___" : REGRETS
18
Brahms cantata : RINALDO
19
It's home on the range : GRAZER
20
Plexus : RETE
21
Crop : LOP
22
Cartoonist Hulme : ETTA
23
Bambi's aunt : ENA
25
Diamond cover : TARP
26
Witnessed : SEEN
27
Galatea's lover : ACIS
30
Faulkner character : ANSE
31
Caesura : REST
33
Declaimed : PERORATED
35
Like Burnett's jungle : ASPHALT
37
Allot : APPORTION
41
Plane of W.W. I : SPAD
45
Two taker : TREY
46
Sonoran Indian : SERI
47
Got a hole-in-one : ACED
49
Kiss-and-___ : TELL
50
Busy org. of W.W. II : SSS
52
Oar: Comb. form : REMI
53
Prefix for center : EPI
54
Profligate : ROUE
57
Oscar winner of 1970 : PATTON
59
Algonquian chiefs : SACHEMS
61
Pig out : SATIATE
62
Apprentice : TRAINEE
63
Tab grabber : TREATER
64
Temperature-control devices : SENSORS
65
Futile : USELESS
Down
1
Worsted fabrics : SERGES
2
More attentive : ALERTER
3
Heir : LEGATEE
4
Crabbe-Barker roles : TARZANS
5
Arrow poison : INEE
6
___ Dame : NOTRE
7
Hesitant sounds : ERS
8
Like the whooping crane : RARE
9
Entrance : ADIT
10
Weathercock : VANE
11
Org. with a journal : AMA
12
Dashing : GALLANT
13
Sanction : ENDORSE
14
Quashed : STOPPED
20
Risen Star is one : RACEHORSE
24
British baby's diaper : NAPPIE
25
Chinese pagoda : TAA
28
Noted rug weavers : IRANIS
29
Impresario Hurok : SOL
32
Pitch : TAR
34
Part of E.R.A. : RTS
36
Louis and Lawrence : STS
37
Bears witness : ATTESTS
38
Forearm : PREPARE
39
Creole State bird : PELICAN
40
Olive or Castor : OYL
42
Biased : PARTIAL
43
Synthetic fabric : ACETATE
44
Busts : DEMOTES
48
RR cars : DINERS
51
Boxes : SPARS
54
It rhymes with keno : RENO
55
Tenth of an ephah : OMER
56
Applications : USES
58
Fit to ___ : ATEE
60
Towel word : HIS
61
R-V connection : STU
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.