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Bert Rosenfield
Bert Rosenfield

New York Times, Friday, May 22, 1987

Author:
Bert Rosenfield
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { H J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 61, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 8.4
Bert Rosenfield has 60 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,709
Across
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Kind of hygiene : ORAL
5
Lawyers' org. : ABA
8
Ferber novel : SOBIG
13
Slight : PUNY
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Gun a motor : REV
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Voyager II 1986 target : URANUS
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Go in advance : ANTECEDE
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Up-creek necessity : PADDLE
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Ho neckwear : LEI
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Romberg's "___ Alone" : ONE
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Coterie : SET
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Milton's Ugandan successor : IDI
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Fruit tree : PAPAW
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Opener for corn or cycle : TRI
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Army V.I.P. : GEN
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Kitchen emanations : AROMAS
30
Audience sleep-producer : MONOTONE
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Antiseptic substance : IODOL
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Singer Lola : FALANA
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Smirk's cousin : LEER
35
Suntan-preparation ingredient : SALOL
36
Expressed contempt : SPAT
40
Kermit is one : ANURAN
42
Expiate : ATONE
43
Like Cesar Chavez : PROLABOR
46
Zoroastrian sacred books : AVESTA
47
Johnny of 1861 : REB
48
O'Neill play : ILE
49
Forestall : AVERT
50
He preceded Andy : ABE
51
Author Whitten : LES
52
Needlefish : GAR
53
Mater or Zadora : PIA
56
Brewer from Toledo : TERESA
58
Figures that interest geometers : POLYGONS
60
Milieux for instructeurs : ECOLES
61
Ray Floyd, for one : PRO
62
Being bearing ailes : ANGE
63
A first name in coaching : KNUTE
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Seek gold : PAN
65
"___ pin and ... " : SEEA
Down
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Black or harlequin follower : OPAL
2
Mystical mark : RUNE
3
Precise opposite : ANTIPODE
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Lixivium : LYE
5
Kemper and Reunion : ARENAS
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Moisten, in a way : BEDEW
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Vale's partner : AVE
8
Coming from above : SUPERNAL
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Red Jacket specialty : ORATION
10
Decomposed : BAD
11
Spectrum hue : INDIGO
12
Arnhem dollar : GULDEN
16
Rouen's river : SEINE
18
Varnish component : COPAL
22
Plant runner : STOLON
25
Neutral, ethically : AMORAL
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Be laid up : AIL
29
Campanella battery-mate : ROE
30
Cheeklike : MALAR
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Necessity for a tyrant : TASTER
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Their capital is Thorshavn : FAROES
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Tenancy arrangement : SUBLEASE
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Put off : POSTPONE
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Kind of bear or lion : ANT
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Assam, for one : TEA
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Carpenter's tool : NAILSET
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N.Y.C.'s ___ Fisher Hall : AVERY
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Chatter : PRATE
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Old fiddle : REBECK
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Puck's boss : OBERON
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King Arthur's island paradise : AVALON
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Israeli coin : AGORA
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"Picnic" playwright : INGE
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On the Azov : ASEA
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Elected, in Epinal : ELU
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Very softly, for Slatkin : PPP
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What some demons step on : GAS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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