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Bert Beaman
Bert Beaman

New York Times, Saturday, September 3, 1977

40-Down : Reveals

Author:
Bert Beaman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Bert Beaman has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,248
Across
1
U.S. journalist, born in Denmark : RIIS
5
A length of yarn : SKEIN
10
One of the "three B's" : BACH
14
Stress : ACCENTUATE
16
Indeed, in Ireland : AROO
17
In ___ (eventually) : THECOURSEOFTIME
19
Long time : EON
20
Author of "America the Beautiful" : BATES
21
Mislays : LOSES
22
Brassie's relative : DRIVER
24
Artery : AORTA
25
A second self : ALTEREGO
29
Lexicographer's abbr. : OBS
31
Rudiments : ABCS
34
Prevailed : RULED
35
Exceedingly : TOO
36
Wings : ALAE
37
Iraqi money : DINAR
38
Astringent : ALUM
39
Masseur's specialty : RUB
40
Wordless : TACIT
41
Astronaut Conrad : PETE
42
Poetic contraction : EER
43
Disappear gradually : EVANESCE
46
Foolish : SILLY
48
Ropes with nooses : LASSOS
52
Kind of pigeon : STOOL
53
She wrote "Three Lives" : STEIN
56
Rainbow : ARC
57
Goes straight ahead, as a pilot : HOLDSONESCOURSE
60
Arrow poison : INEE
61
Argument : CONTENTION
62
Cats and dogs, e.g. : PETS
63
Doubleday : ABNER
64
Feudal laborer : ESNE
Down
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Evaluated : RATED
2
Blood of the gods : ICHOR
3
Ancient British tribe : ICENI
4
Like some wines : SEC
5
Painter famed for Washington portraits : STUART
6
Vonnegut or Weill : KURT
7
Bed of roses : EASE
8
Residents: Suffix : ITES
9
Avant-gardist : NEO
10
Ulan ___, Mongolian capital : BATOR
11
Plato's outstanding student : ARISTOTLE
12
Happen : COMEABOUT
13
Does farm work : HOES
15
Saul Bellow's prize : NOBEL
18
Biblical depopulator : FLOOD
23
Archeologist's find : VASE
24
Dyeing equipment : AGER
26
Heath : ERICA
27
Spat : RUNIN
28
Cheer : ELATE
30
"___ are born great ... ": Shakespeare : SOME
31
Swiss stream : AARE
32
Paving material : BLUESTONE
33
Coupé's relative : CABRIOLET
37
___ Jones's locker : DAVY
38
Gibbons : APES
40
Reveals : TELLS
44
Deli machine : SLICER
45
Church law : CANON
47
Veins of ore : LODES
49
Delhi dresses : SARIS
50
Bean or Welles : ORSON
51
Flicks unit : SCENE
52
"Lollipop" in a 1934 song : SHIP
53
Hoity-toity one : SNOB
54
State west of N.C. : TENN
55
Ferrara family : ESTE
58
Goose, in Genoa : OCA
59
Western Indian : UTE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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