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Bernard Meren
Bernard Meren

New York Times, Saturday, July 23, 1988

2-Down : Seedy dwelling

Author:
Bernard Meren
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Bernard Meren has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,137
Across
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Wad of tobacco, in Dogpatch : CHAW
5
Iron-horse sound : CHUG
9
Neighbor of Luzon : SAMAR
14
Napoleon triumphed here in 1796 : LODI
15
Barrett or Jaffe : RONA
16
Verdi character : ELENA
17
Rimsky-Korsakov subject : IVAN
18
Actress Markey : ENID
19
Score notations : RESTS
20
The ___, marshy English region : FENS
21
Spud offshoot : POTATOCHIP
23
Butter up : FLATTER
25
Arrow launcher : BOW
26
Lads and dads : HES
27
Emulate Brutus and Cassius : CONSPIRE
32
Word of compliance : AMEN
34
Hint for a hawkshaw : CLUE
35
Verse forms : ODES
36
Err : SLIP
37
Beginnings : ROOTS
38
Congou and Assam : TEAS
39
Wine: Comb. form : OENO
40
Book by Julian Huxley : ANTS
41
Angle iron : LBAR
42
Astronomical instruments : SEXTANTS
44
It's paid for professional aid : FEE
45
Red or Dead : SEA
46
Questioned relentlessly : GRILLED
50
Dover druggist : APOTHECARY
55
Gershwin's "___, Lucille" : LALA
56
Hocus-pocus : MAGIC
57
Cycad or poon : TREE
58
Author Dinesen : ISAK
59
Sphere : ARENA
60
"Rome of Hungary" : EGER
61
"¿Cómo ___?" : ESTA
62
"Twelve Night" painter : STEEN
63
Islets on maps : DOTS
64
Busy beaver : DOER
Down
1
Topographic feature : CLIFF
2
Seedy dwelling : HOVEL
3
Turkish city on the Seyhan : ADANA
4
Takes the stakes, in poker : WINSTHEPOT
5
Blintzes in Biarritz : CREPES
6
Word in a marriage avowal : HONOR
7
Military component : UNIT
8
Rovers : GADABOUTS
9
Tibetan goat-antelopes : SEROWS
10
Waugh or Clunes : ALEC
11
What gears usually do : MESH
12
Volsteader, re Repeal : ANTI
13
Grate : RASP
22
Demitints, e.g. : TONES
24
Mark for Retton : TEN
27
Coagulates : CLOTS
28
Describing the anatomy of a stove? : POTBELLIED
29
Significance : IDEA
30
Bring up : REAR
31
Term for a worm : ESS
32
Captain's "Hard ___!" : ALEE
33
Sassy lassie : MINX
34
Got in touch with : CONTACTED
36
"___ your old man!" : SOS
37
Indian queen : RANEE
41
Hawaiian neckpiece : LEI
43
Sub drubber : ASHCAN
44
Young chicks in a pan : FRYERS
46
Salute : GREET
47
Dogie catcher : LASSO
48
Gladden : ELATE
49
Senegal's capital : DAKAR
50
Latin I word : AMAS
51
Thespian's quest : PART
52
Molding that sounds woeful : OGEE
53
Prong : TINE
54
Ex-constellation : ARGO

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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