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Bernard Meren
Bernard Meren

New York Times, Saturday, October 7, 1989

35-Down : New Zealand parrots

Author:
Bernard Meren
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 66, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.73, Missing: { F J Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 44.4 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Bernard Meren has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,578
Across
1
Group of 11 Across : DROVE
6
Character : STAMP
11
Oxen and cows : BEEVES
12
Loyalists of George III : TORIES
14
They babble on and on : RANTERS
15
Like a rat ___ : INATRAP
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Cross : INTERSECT
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Exploit : GESTE
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Similar : AKIN
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Make into law : ENACT
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Long Island park : RIIS
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Seed integument : TESTA
26
Upper regions of space : ETHER
28
Nigerian native : ARO
29
Manet or Monet : ARTIST
31
Leading ladies : HEROINES
33
Cloth for G.I. garb : OLIVEDRAB
35
Cuomo was one in 1984 : KEYNOTER
38
Store fodder : ENSILE
42
Ancient capital of Myanmar : AVA
43
Dried-up desert streams : WADIS
45
Seat, in Siena : SEDIA
46
Superman's alter ego : KENT
48
Bilbao babes : NENES
50
Monster's loch : NESS
51
Singer-composer Paul and family : ANKAS
53
Mild : TEMPERATE
55
Caviar source : STERLET
57
Conned : PILOTED
58
Til : SESAME
59
Dervish, for one : REELER
60
Scenes : SITES
61
Ouphs : ELVES
Down
1
William Thomas Green Morton was one : DENTIST
2
Memory : RETENTION
3
Throughout : OVER
4
Forte of William Meredith : VERSE
5
Ancient native of Qumran : ESSENE
6
Basted : STITCHED
7
Won ___ (Chinese soup) : TON
8
"To ___ and a bone ... ": Kipling : ARAG
9
Bishopric : MITER
10
"One man's Mede is another man's ___" : PERSIAN
11
Coal-furnace tender, at times : BANKER
13
Lucilius's forte : SATIRE
14
Dogie catcher : RIATA
16
Mexican mazuma : PESOS
18
Name of three of Henry VIII's wives : CATHERINE
22
___-verte (green pigment for 29 Across) : TERRE
25
"On ___ Boat to China" : ASLOW
27
Chestnut horses : ROANS
30
Coeus or Crius : TITAN
32
Nora Helmer or Hedda Tessman : IBSENROLE
34
Old naval scouting launches : VEDETTES
35
New Zealand parrots : KAKAS
36
What reporters cover : EVENTS
37
New Englanders : YANKEES
39
Conceives : IDEATES
40
Antiseptic-surgery pioneer : LISTER
41
Let up : EASED
44
Always, in music : SEMPRE
47
Where the astragali are : TARSI
49
Pitch : SPIEL
52
Mattress support : SLAT
54
Alt. : ELEV
56
Highlander's uncle : EME

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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