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Norma Steinberg
Norma Steinberg

New York Times, Wednesday, August 21, 1985

Author:
Norma Steinberg
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.72, Missing: { F J Q }, Scrabble score: 313 (avg 1.70)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Norma Steinberg has 35 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 17 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,070
Across
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Ointment : BALM
5
Cry of a flushed snipe : SCAPE
10
Enos's grandmother : EVE
13
Pelvic bone : ILIUM
15
Galsworthy novel : TOLET
16
Res followers : MIS
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Uncas's friend : NATTYBUMPPO
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Gamp or Gummidge : MRS
20
Lasso's sound : WHIRR
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Letter addenda : PSS
22
Leaf : PAGE
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Unsophisticated : NAIVE
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Forerunner of the freezer : ICEBOX
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More than several : MANY
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Morse signal : DIT
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Treaty gp. : NATO
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Ovidian declaration : AMO
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MOMA piece : KLEE
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Live it up : REVEL
37
Sidekick : PARTNER
39
Hymn : CHORALE
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Gin : SNARE
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Bakery tool : PEEL
43
Brazilian's coffee : RIO
44
Lou Ferrigno role : HULK
46
"___ longa ... " : ARS
47
Tatum's father : RYAN
48
Thaumaturgist's word : PRESTO
50
___ Dame : NOTRE
52
Motherwell medium : OILS
53
N.Z. parrot : KEA
55
Morbid condition: Suffix : IASIS
58
Popular street name : ELM
59
Cheerful fictional clerk : BOBCRATCHIT
62
Where Wadkins starts : TEE
63
Cornhuskers' city : OMAHA
64
Polished : SUAVE
65
Land south of Turk. : SYR
66
Regions : ZONES
67
Cheese-store purchase : EDAM
Down
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Storage area : BIN
2
"There ought to be ___!" : ALAW
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An S.S.R. : LITH
4
Bligh's problem : MUTINY
5
Erwin of old films : STU
6
Run in a race : COMPETE
7
Tyrol's locale : ALPS
8
Important enzyme : PEPSIN
9
Ike's domain in 1942 : ETO
10
Subject of a Flaubert masterpiece : EMMABOVARY
11
A September sign : VIRGO
12
Lover of Elizabeth I : ESSEX
14
Breckinridge or Hess : MYRA
18
Restrain : BRIDLE
22
Ustinov or O'Toole : PETER
24
Contender : VIER
26
Burnett or Channing : CAROL
27
Charts : MAPS
28
"___ for All Seasons" : AMAN
29
Ibsen's "doll" : NORAHELMER
33
Genuflected : KNELT
35
"Roast Pig" dissertator : ELIA
36
Uris or Goossens : LEON
38
Tie up : TRUSS
39
Zilch, to Zapata : CERO
40
Vesta, to Greeks : HESTIA
42
Flamboyance : PANACHE
45
Ind. city : KOKOMO
47
Save : RESCUE
48
Wilbur and Merrill : POETS
49
William Bendix role : RILEY
51
Charlie Brown expletive : RATS
54
Israeli statesman : EBAN
56
"If ___ a Hammer" : IHAD
57
Hindu god : SIVA
59
Dickens's nom de plume : BOZ
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Ethiopian prince : RAS
61
Pro ___ : TEM

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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