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Bert H. Kruse
Bert H. Kruse

LAW-SCHOOL DROPOUT

New York Times, Sunday, August 5, 1990

16-Down : Go oystering

Author:
Bert H. Kruse
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 76, Avg Word Len: 5.21, Missing: { Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 513 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 121, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
Bert H. Kruse has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,880
Across
1
Norwegian saint : OLAF
5
Utter : SHEER
10
World toter : ATLAS
15
Put away : STOW
19
Painter of "Aurora" : RENI
20
Trunk : TORSO
21
___ Vista, Mexican War battle site : BUENA
22
Put an edge on : HONE
23
What are contracts? : BRIDGEBIDS
25
If you pass the bar, what will it mean? : ABSTINENCE
27
Birthplace of Columbus : GENOA
28
Marner or Lapham : SILAS
30
Pined : LONGED
31
___ Aires : BUENOS
33
Skid-row denizens : WINOS
34
Cans, in Canterbury : TINS
35
Heraldic design : ENTE
36
Presently : ANON
37
Kind of spoon : RUNCIBLE
41
Dips : LADES
42
Which former female arbiter do you most admire? : ARLINEJUDGE
45
Wine: Comb. form : OEN
46
Individualist : ONER
47
Mr. Flintstone : FRED
48
Bible book : AMOS
49
Couple : DYAD
50
Cahn-Styne product : AIR
51
Name at least one historic trial : SUITOFARMOR
55
Choreographer-director from Chicago : FOSSE
56
Cancels : NEGATES
58
Arab nobleman : AMEER
59
Yosemite National Park river : MERCED
60
A poplar : ABELE
61
Takes off the cream : SKIMS
62
Pace : TEMPO
63
Tooth problem : CARIES
65
Kind of fence : SPITE
66
Out of the ordinary : UNUSUAL
69
Singer of "Stop the Music" fame : ARMEN
70
What is a talesman? : STORYTELLER
73
Refrain word : TRA
74
Arikaras : REES
75
Kind of plane or dynamics : AERO
76
Grandmother of Timothy : LOIS
77
Banking game : FARO
78
Lodge : INN
79
What is equity? : ACTORSGROUP
83
Uses a kitchen appliance : RICES
84
Umpire's command : BATTERUP
86
Kind of deck : POOP
87
Bits for Benji : ORTS
88
Drenched : ASOP
89
Horse follower : SENSE
90
Be a witness : ATTEST
92
Where filets are often ruined : PATIOS
95
I.Q. tester : BINET
96
Spanish ice-skating figures : OCHOS
97
Define statutes : SCULPTURES
99
Name a prominent living court figure : ARTHURASHE
104
Florence's waterfront : ARNO
105
Silly : INANE
106
Lustrous : NITID
107
Weaving need : LOOM
108
Kind of drop : TEAR
109
Lebanese tree : CEDAR
110
River and lake in Scotland : DOONS
111
Crosses out : EXES
Down
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Scepter's adjunct : ORB
2
Irish Neptune : LER
3
Black bird : ANI
4
Nervous Nellie : FIDGETER
5
Exec's brain, on occasion : STENO
6
Roads scholars : HOBOS
7
Silkworm : ERIA
8
Apocryphal bk. : ESD
9
"The Barber of Seville" composer : ROSSINI
10
Tasty mollusk : ABALONE
11
Helicons : TUBAS
12
"___ is more": Browning : LESS
13
Hill maker : ANT
14
Liner schedules : SAILINGS
15
Chinese province : SHENSI
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Go oystering : TONG
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Erstwhile : ONCE
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Cull : WEED
24
Heredity determiners : GENES
26
Present : NONCE
29
Party to : INON
31
Prep cap : BEANIE
32
What exactly is a brief? : UNDERGARMENT
33
Emerson's middle name : WALDO
34
Henry VIII was one : TUDOR
37
Sometimes it's ugly : RUMOR
38
Quitclaim, is a deed. Name some others. : BOYSCOUTACTS
39
Rent : LEASE
40
Over : ENDED
41
Bank transaction : LOAN
42
Originate : ARISE
43
Soak flax or lumber : RET
44
"The Golden Bowl" author : JAMES
47
Heaters : FUELS
49
African villages : DORPS
51
Dutch genre painter : STEEN
52
Dervish : FAKIR
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Peaceful harmony : AMITY
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Convened anew : REMET
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Our largest bone : FEMUR
57
"___ Irish Rose" : ABIES
59
Biblical wall words : MENES
61
Game trail : SPOOR
62
Spring bloom : TULIP
63
Brazilian Indian : CARIB
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Knockout of a place : ARENA
65
Perk up a straightedge : STROP
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Halt : ARREST
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Asian nation : LAOS
70
Arrangement : SETUP
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Marry modestly : ELOPE
72
Costello or Groza : LOU
75
Puzzle variety : ACROSTIC
77
Damaged-goods rendition : FIRESALE
79
Famed fabulist : AESOP
80
"Faerie Queene" poet : SPENSER
81
Away : GONE
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Cyrano's creator : ROSTAND
83
Chopper part : ROTOR
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Who starts the most suits? : TAILOR
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City near Assisi : SIENA
90
"Body all ___": O. Hammerstein : ACHIN
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Dull sounds : THUDS
92
Scholastic test, for short : PSAT
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Israeli port : ACRE
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Fish or pear : TUNA
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Finishing nail : BRAD
96
Schenk or Harbach : OTTO
98
One, in Paris : UNE
100
Cruise port, for short : RIO
101
Boston or Chicago team : SOX
102
Weeder : HOE
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Bad ___, German spa : EMS

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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