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Ernst Theimer
Ernst Theimer

New York Times, Saturday, August 11, 1984

Author:
Ernst Theimer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.71, Missing: { J Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 304 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 86, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 97.0 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Ernst Theimer has 50 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,695
Across
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Greek letter : THETA
6
Went by : ELAPSED
13
Little innocent : CHERUB
14
Drain access : MANHOLE
15
Holmes memoir : THEFINALPROBLEM
17
Error generator : HASTE
18
Type of protest : SITIN
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"___ ramblin' wreck ... " : IMA
20
Spot : ESPY
21
Finch : SERIN
22
British weapon : STEN
23
Suffix with Adam or Eden : ITE
24
Dicer's bad throw : THREE
25
Position : STAND
26
Tenements : DECKERS
28
Accounts : REPORTS
30
Persephone : KORE
31
Sly : WILY
32
Virgin or Sandwich : ISLANDS
35
Sets the pool balls again : RERACKS
38
An anagram for slate : TAELS
39
"Over ___," W.W. I song : THERE
41
Bark : YAP
42
Wagnerian goddess : ERDA
43
Lawn essential : GRASS
44
Beige : ECRU
45
Jewish teacher : RAB
46
Part of Hispaniola : HAITI
47
Mohammedanism : ISLAM
48
Holmes story : ACASEOFIDENTITY
51
Like a valid defense : TENABLE
52
This may be lame : EXCUSE
53
Unceasing : ENDLESS
54
Barbecue : ROAST
Down
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Holmes adventure : THESPECKLEDBAND
2
Built like a fullback : HEFTY
3
Coloratura Mills : ERIE
4
Cask : TUN
5
Humblers : ABASERS
6
More vapid : EMPTIER
7
Ex-Asian coin made of silver wire : LARIN
8
Soon : ANON
9
Deg. for a Platonist : PHB
10
Holmes adventure, with "The" : SOLITARYCYCLIST
11
Component : ELEMENT
12
Requires : DEMANDS
13
"As ___ as unsunn'd snow": Shak. : CHASTE
15
Freud's "The Ego and ___" : THEID
16
Lucre in Livorno : LIRE
21
Particle : SHRED
22
Roman robe : STOLA
24
Darrs : TERNS
25
Steeple : SPIRE
27
Cute marsupial : KOALA
29
Some crockery : EWERS
32
Battologize : ITERATE
33
Crusader's adversary : SARACEN
34
Conflicts : STRIFES
35
Domicile occupant : RESIDER
36
Kin of judo : KARATE
37
Covered with foam : SPUMY
40
The heart, to Tut : HATI
43
British prisons : GAOLS
44
Ebb and flow : ESTUS
46
Goddess of youth : HEBE
47
Orejon, e.g. : INCA
49
___ soda : SAL
50
Outer: Prefix : EXO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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