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Bert Beaman
Bert Beaman

New York Times, Friday, November 7, 1975

Author:
Bert Beaman
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 296 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 33.2 Grid has duplicate clues.
Bert Beaman has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,582
Across
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Noted suffragist : CATT
5
Tito : BROZ
9
Word of impatience : PSHAW
14
Melville work : OMOO
15
Parisian dream : REVE
16
Swiftly : APACE
17
Question, with 39, 41 and 64 Across : CANWEEVER
19
Strayed : ROVED
20
Lansbury : ANGELA
21
Alarm clocks of a sort : ROOSTERS
23
Counterparts : LIKES
25
Chemical prefix : TOL
26
Marble : MIG
29
Circus equipment : CAGE
30
Grieg's dancing girl : ANITRA
34
Friends, to Caesar : AMICI
36
Kind of shift or wheel : GEAR
38
Grating : GRID
39
More of question : HAVETOO
41
More of question : MUCHOFA
43
Dye-plant machine : AGER
44
Handle : KNOB
46
Not ___ (never) : ATALL
47
Closing poetic lines : LENVOI
49
Yankees' foes : REBS
51
Spot : SEE
52
___ crow : ATE
53
Mountain spur : ARETE
55
Indicates : POINTSAT
59
Cruise port near Florida : NASSAU
63
Set ___ (put on the calendar) : ADATE
64
End of question : GOODTHING
66
Also-ran : LOSER
67
Sea bird : ERNE
68
Relative of etc. : ETAL
69
Prim one, in England : PRISS
70
Observed : EYED
71
"___-fingered dawn" : ROSY
Down
1
Imogene : COCA
2
"I met ___ with ... " : AMAN
3
Secret society : TONG
4
Dry off : TOWEL
5
___ promise (renege) : BREAKA
6
Speed up an engine : REV
7
Supervise : OVERSEE
8
Mostel : ZERO
9
Clergyman : PARSON
10
Publicity : SPOTLIGHT
11
___ at (attack) : HAVE
12
Maple genus : ACER
13
Joins : WEDS
18
Bring out : ELICIT
22
Japanese port : OTARU
24
Prod : EGGON
26
Taj ___ : MAHAL
27
Mirror's offering : IMAGE
28
Kind of name : GIVEN
31
Ancient Aegean region : TROAS
32
Ransack : RIFLE
33
Allan-___ : ADALE
35
Asker of the question : CERVANTES
37
Yellowish brown : AMBER
40
Steinbeck characters : OKIES
42
Hurl against : CASTAT
45
Campaigner's staple : ORATORY
48
Playful animals : OTTERS
50
On ___ knee : BENDED
54
Town near London : ESHER
55
Feeler : PALP
56
Lavender, for one : ODOR
57
Rumanian city : IASI
58
Writer James : AGEE
60
Food: Prefix : SITO
61
Literary collections : ANAS
62
Kind of duckling : UGLY
65
Bill : ONE

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

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