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Bert Rosenfield
Bert Rosenfield

New York Times, Wednesday, October 30, 1991

Author:
Bert Rosenfield
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.14, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 35.1
Bert Rosenfield has 60 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,331
Across
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V. Hugo's wife and daughter : ADELES
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Clairvoyance : ESP
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Toadfish : SAPO
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"A maid ... ___ praise": Wordsworth : NONETO
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Law-and-order G.I.'s : MPS
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Pub drinks : ALES
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Decorative style : ARTNOUVEAU
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Cubs or Mets : NINE
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"Mack the Knife" singer : DARIN
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Scottish alder : ARN
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Hall of Fame pitcher Lyons : TED
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Felicitous regions : EDENS
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Alger starting points : RAGS
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Burden : ONUS
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Spark's "Memento ___" : MORI
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Property-transfer instrument : BILLOFSALE
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___ dlvy. (rush!) : SPL
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Marginal marking : DELE
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Work on a doily : TAT
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Rendered helpless : HOGTIED
39
Game dogs : SETTERS
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French article : UNE
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Fearful, in a way : AWED
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Man in the van : NEO
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Doing good : BENEFICENT
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N.Y.C.'s modernism showplace : MOMA
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Actor Farrell : SHEA
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It precedes rank : NAME
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Primavera month : ABRIL
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Goddess of plenty : OPS
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Fourth-rate mark : DEE
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Early Norse chieftain : ROLLO
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Log-splitting wedge : FROE
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Sportswear fabric : TERRYCLOTH
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Old-time zither : ASOR
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Tickbird : ANI
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Lack of vital energy : ATONIA
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Semisolid colloids : GELS
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Communications logo : ITT
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Crook chasers in oaters : POSSES
Down
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Chaplet : ANADEM
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Sport fish : DORADO
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To come in: Fr. : ENTRER
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A Marxian : LENINIST
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Short jackets : ETONS
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Trifle : SOU
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Shade of green : EMERALD
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Garment decorations : SPANGLES
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Nittany Lions: Abbr. : PSU
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Brazilian port : SANTOS
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Estrange : ALIENATE
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Oscillating : PENDULAR
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Simple sugar : OSE
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Combiner with form or color : VARI
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The ___, English channel : SOLENT
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Matched golf clubs : SETS
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Arrived unexpectedly : BLEWIN
30
Jubilee : FETE
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Chanteuse Edith: 1915-63 : PIAF
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Centers of activity : HUBS
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Trivial : ONEHORSE
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Total of interest to biologists : GENEPOOL
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Effete : DECADENT
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Island-to-mainland sandbars : TOMBOLOS
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Bad-conduct mark : DEMERIT
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Loom bars : EASERS
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___-do-well : NEER
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Soft synthetic fabrics : ORLONS
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Avuncular early-TV host : MILTIE
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Greetings from wahines : ALOHAS
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Bear: Comb. form : ARCTO
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Exhaust : FAG
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Skater Babilonia : TAI
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One of the Carolines : YAP

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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