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Bert Rosenfield
Bert Rosenfield

On Cloud Nine

New York Times, Sunday, February 13, 1972

104-Across : Baseball's Walter and family

Author:
Bert Rosenfield
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 160, Blocks: 74, Avg Word Len: 5.69, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 662 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 151, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 15, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 37, Grid flow: 41.6
Bert Rosenfield has 60 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1972, The New York TimesNo. 8,219
Across
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Added liquor : LACED
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Pub fare : ALES
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Electric catfish : RAADS
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Make another curve : REARCH
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Of Florentine or Roman style : ITALIANATE
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___ in the face : ASLAP
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Kill ___ : ORCURE
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Song title : MYFUNNYVALENTINE
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Conveyor of property : DEEDER
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Old beater for clothes : BATLET
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Author Wister : OWEN
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Rush the passer : REDDOG
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Small shark : TOPE
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Spanish wave : OLA
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___-disant : SOI
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Adverse or Wayne : ANTHONY
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Star in Leo : REGULUS
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Bayh's colleague : SENVANCEHARTKE
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Economizes : SCRIMPS
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Eaglestone : ETITE
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Stone or Iron : AGE
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Tilted : ALIST
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Consumer's woe: Abbr. : HCL
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Easter items : EGGS
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Lubricant devices : OILCUPS
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Miss Massey : ILONA
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Grandfather: Lat. : AVUS
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Trims a photo : CROPS
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Con's quarters : CELL
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Like Kansas land : FLAT
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Certain diets : NOSALT
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Exists, old style : LIVETH
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Mancini song : DEARHEART
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Rogues: Fr. : DROLES
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Silly actions : APERIES
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Disengaged : FREED
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Marsh gas : METHANE
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Thrice: Prefix : TER
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Cobbling word : LAST
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P.I. peasant : TAO
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Costly : DEAR
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Initials of '30's : NRA
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Like some coffee-table books : NOTREAD
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Others: Sp. : OTROS
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___ stay (nautical rope) : TRIATIC
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"___ choose to run" : IDONOT
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U.S. author : BRETHARTE
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Irish heir-apparent : TANIST
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Canaries' cousins : SERINS
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Chemical suffixes : OINS
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Pitcher's slip : BALK
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Canonical hour : NONES
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Mil. official : ADJT
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Did rowing : OARED
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Baseball's Walter and family : ALSTONS
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Hebrides island : IONA
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Place to fly down to : RIO
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Succeeding : AFTER
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French vineyard : CRU
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Captured again : REWON
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French neurologist : CHARCOT
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Famed alias : JIMMYVALENTINE
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Lathe accessory : MANDREL
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Symbol of industry : BUSYBEE
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Green or black : TEA
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Work gang: Sp. : DUA
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Tamarisk tree : ATLE
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Avignon feature : LEPONT
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___ account : ONNO
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David's works : PSALMS
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Canadian name : DIONNE
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Farewell words to Ophelia : SWEETSTOTHESWEET
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Covetous one : ENVIER
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Prisons, to cons : STIRS
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City of Northwest : ASTORIAORE
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F.H.A., for one : AGENCY
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French weight : TONNE
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Meeting: Abbr. : SESS
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Church council : SYNOD
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Places of oblivion : LIMBOS
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Buckley's "God and Man ___" : ATYALE
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Near-East garment : CAFTAN
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Hebrew month : ELUL
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___ home (eats in) : DINESAT
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At all : ANY
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Wash: Lat. : LAVO
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Indian city near Agra : ETAWAH
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Actress Royle : SELENA
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Fled : RAN
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"With ___ of the pen" : ASTROKE
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Deranged: Fr. : ALIENE
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First-rate : DANDY
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Expedited : SPED
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Writers of 25 Across : RODGERSANDHART
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Cockney cry : ERE
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Vinegar : ACETUM
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Sheik personified : RUDOLPHVALENTINO
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Twilight : CREPUSCULE
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Toasting word : HERES
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Merchant of Venice : ANTONIO
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Catch in a way : ENTRAP
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Chemical solid : ORCIN
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Of metrical stress : ICTIC
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Thermal actions: Abbr. : HTGS
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Begone, cowboy style : GIT
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Evening star : VESPER
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Squirmed along : EELED
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Like a mailbox : SLOTTED
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Type of clock : ALARM
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W.W. II craft : LSTS
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Great success : ECLAT
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Grumble : GRIPE
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Denver V.I.P. : GOVERNORJOHNLOVE
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Bass or treble : CLEF
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Suffix for sec or pop : ULAR
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Pier union: Abbr. : ILA
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"You're gaining ___" : ASON
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English cheese : STILTON
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Hat : FEDORA
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Of a coast : ORARIAN
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Table tidbits : HEARTSOFCELERY
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Adds up again : RETOTS
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Eminent Briton : HEATH
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Wind direction : SSE
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Asian holiday : TET
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Backless seat : TABORET
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Up and about : RISEN
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___ part (performs) : ACTSA
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"You can bet ___" : ONIT
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Beauty-parlor item : DRIER
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Globes : ORBS
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Photocopy, for short : STAT
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Rub with oil : ANOINT
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River to Danube : ISAR
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Consecrating : DEDICATING
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Objective : END
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Town in Ontario : ELORA
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Prepared to be knighted : KNELT
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Corn gruel : ATOLE
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Coxey's, for one : ARMY
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Prefixes meaning loin : LUMBOS
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Anti-mine ship : SWEEPER
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Timetable abbr. : ARR
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Water tank : CISTERN
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Follower of Aristotle : ONASSIS
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Tea alkaloid: Var. : ADENIN
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"It's ___ January" : JUNEIN
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Yiddish gossips : YENTAS
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Streaky, as an insect's wing : VENOSE
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Keep an engine running slowly : IDLEON
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Uno or dos, in Spain : NUMERO
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Sailed into the sunrise : EASTED
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___ hole in one : MADEA
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Nod : BOWTO
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Attention-getting sound : PSST
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Mel and family : OTTS
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"And ___ we go" : AWAY
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And not: Lat. : NEC
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Part of Mao's name : TSE
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Santa sounds : HOS

Answer summary:
24 unique to this puzzle, 13 debuted here and reused later, 16 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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