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Bernard Meren
Bernard Meren

New York Times, Saturday, November 10, 1990

8-Down : Exude

Author:
Bernard Meren
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 28, Avg Word Len: 5.63, Missing: { J K Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 100, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 43.5
Bernard Meren has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,977
Across
1
Mindoro seaport : CALAPAN
8
Own : POSSESS
15
Edacity : AVARICE
16
Issue : EMANATE
17
Tau, tee and tav : LETTERS
18
Hits the hay : RETIRES
19
A rep. in Europe : IRE
20
Vous ___ : ETES
22
Onomatopoeic sound : SPLAT
23
Starr of football et al. : BARTS
26
Montreal ball player : EXPO
28
Any : SOME
29
Astray, in Calais : EGARE
30
Wallace and Whitelaw : REIDS
32
Venture at Santa Anita : BET
33
Interact realistically : RELATE
35
Moonflowers, e.g. : CREEPERS
37
Small Rodin product : STATUETTE
39
Recluse : ANCHORET
42
Soaked : SODDEN
46
Indian poet : LAL
47
Las Vegas site : STRIP
49
Curly, in Cannes : FRISE
50
___ impasse : ATAN
52
Johnston's "To ___ and to Hold" : HAVE
53
"Cabaret" choreographer : FOSSE
54
Romanian river : MURES
56
Actress Harper : TESS
58
Radio announcer Husing : TED
59
Paper-folding craft : ORIGAMI
61
Kettledrums : TIMPANI
64
Jimson weeds : DATURAS
65
Intensify : ENHANCE
66
State of perfect happiness : ELYSIUM
67
"___ Cogburn," J. Wayne film : ROOSTER
Down
1
Worth; distinction : CALIBER
2
Mean : AVERAGE
3
QB's option : LATERAL
4
Corcoran offering : ART
5
With 39 Down, a rich dessert : PIE
6
Brazilian state : ACRE
7
Homesteader : NESTER
8
Exude : PERSPIRE
9
Kipling's "Follow Me ___" : OME
10
College rating exams for H.S. srs. : SATS
11
Small shears used by sheet-metal workers : SNIPS
12
Burnett tugs hers : EARLOBE
13
Soft-shell clam : STEAMER
14
Octaves' followers in sonnets : SESTETS
21
Kind of secretary : EXECUTIVE
24
Condemn as worthless : TRASH
25
Quarrels : SETTOS
27
"Night Music" playwright : ODETS
31
Counterbalance : SETOFF
34
Your place or mine : EARTH
36
Brazil's first emperor: 1822-31 : PEDRO
38
Worship of the monstrous : TERATISM
39
See 5 Down : ALAMODE
40
Seven or eleven : NATURAL
41
Pellucidness : CLARITY
43
Withdrawn : DISTANT
44
Spirit : ESSENCE
45
More destitute : NEEDIER
48
Bedevil : PESTER
51
Title for an Ethiopian ruler : NEGUS
55
Kálmán operetta : SARI
57
Chinese: Comb. form : SINO
60
Noted archeologist: 1840-1909 : MAU
62
Unit of conductance : MHO
63
___ de deux : PAS

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

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