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Margery Bernstein
Margery Bernstein

New York Times, Wednesday, July 2, 1975

54-Down : Part of W.P.A.

Author:
Margery Bernstein
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Margery Bernstein has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,454
Across
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Aid and ___ : ABET
5
Auditors : CPAS
9
More up-to-date : LATER
14
Speed-ratio number : MACH
15
___ breve : ALLA
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Hebrew letter : ALEPH
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Head or back complaint : ACHE
18
Kind of guard or admiral : REAR
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Misrepresent : BELIE
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At ___ (bewildered) : ALOSS
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Scrap : ORT
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Rehan or Huxtable : ADA
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Direction: Abbr. : ENE
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Normal: Abbr. : STD
30
Reign, in India : RAJ
33
Feast : DINE
35
Certain past time : AYEARAGO
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Johnsons : ANDREWANDLYNDON
41
Endurance contest : MARATHON
42
Swiss river : AARE
43
Haggard heroine : SHE
44
Pronoun : HER
45
Iron or Stone : AGE
48
Headland : RAS
49
Robert or Annabel : LEE
50
Proverb : ADAGE
52
Thomases : LOWELLANDNORMAN
59
Shouting : AROAR
60
Ogden or Whitelaw : REID
61
Judicial wear : ROBE
62
Liveliness : VERVE
63
Result of poison ivy : ITCH
64
Fitzgerald or Grasso : ELLA
65
Invited : ASKED
66
Pierre ___, French author : LOTI
67
Ruminant : DEER
Down
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Between amas and amamus : AMAT
2
Johann or Carl : BACH
3
High-low bridge play : ECHO
4
Melodic subject : THEMA
5
Kit or Rachel : CARSON
6
"If you ___" : PLEASE
7
King and Alda : ALANS
8
Chalcedony : SARD
9
Summer ender : LABORDAY
10
Wide-awake : ALERT
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Tissue layer : TELA
12
On a grand scale : EPIC
13
Syngman : RHEE
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Beverage : ALE
22
Arthur Hailey subject : HOTEL
25
John or Don : ADAMS
26
Shore or Alice's cat : DINAH
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Major John ___ : ANDRE
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Man's nickname : SYD
30
Spotter of storms and speeders : RADAR
31
Marketplace : AGORA
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Davy or Tom : JONES
34
Pitcher's record: Abbr. : ERA
35
Arbor or Rutledge : ANN
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Nucleic acid: Abbr. : RNA
38
The Unready : ETHELRED
39
Steering or spinning : WHEEL
40
Assam people : AOR
45
One with a monkey on his back : ADDICT
46
Indira or Mohandas : GANDHI
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Self : EGO
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Part of AWOL : LEAVE
50
Pico de ___, Spanish mountain : ANETO
51
Went astray : ERRED
52
Pelée leavings : LAVA
53
Cinnabar, etc. : ORES
54
Part of W.P.A. : WORK
55
Seed coating : ARIL
56
Shade of gray : MOLE
57
Kind of seamen : ABLE
58
Close : NEAR

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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