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Bert Beaman
Bert Beaman

New York Times, Friday, December 30, 1977

56-Down : Ludwig

Author:
Bert Beaman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { F J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 253 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 54.2
Bert Beaman has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,366
Across
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Top of a shoe : VAMP
5
Medieval silken fabric : ACCA
9
Chat or martin : BIRD
13
Winglike : ALAR
14
Mexican hut-builder's vine : LIANA
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American Indian : ERIE
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Kind of drive or drawing : LINE
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Repeat initial sounds in neighboring words : ALLITERATE
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Hearken and heed : LENDAWILLINGEAR
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"The bombs bursting ___ ... " : INAIR
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Family branch : SEPT
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Bandleader from Barcelona : CUGAT
27
Siouan Sooner : OSAGE
32
Single : UNATTACHED
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Buccal : ORAL
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Mexican Indian : SERI
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Source of annoyance : PEEVE
40
"Pen" part : CELL
41
Hence : ERGO
42
Food, shelter, etc. : ESSENTIALS
44
Name in "A Romance of Exmoor" : DOONE
46
Prefix with mural : INTRA
47
Food fish : LING
50
Assign : ALLOT
54
Takes verbal action : SPEAKSONESPIECE
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South African weaverbird : TAHA
62
This begets itself, according to Fuller : ALIE
63
Tissues : TELAE
64
By any chance : EVER
65
Impudent : BOLD
66
Controversial noisemakers : SSTS
67
Test-tube substances : SERA
Down
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Alida ___, Italian film star : VALLI
2
Strange : ALIEN
3
Heavenly diet : MANNA
4
Cassandra's direful words : PREDICTION
5
"There ought to be ___" : ALAW
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Eyelash: Comb. form : CILI
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Directs : CALLSTHESIGNALS
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Like Ulrica in "Ivanhoe" : ANILE
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Northern seas hazard : BERG
10
Dies ___ : IRAE
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"Rio ___" : RITA
12
Cervine creature : DEER
15
Eagerly expecting : ATIP
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Within: Comb. form : ENTO
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In ___ (stagnating) : ARUT
25
Dehisce : GAPE
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Good hole-cards in seven-card stud : ACES
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"The 400" : SOCIALITES
29
Belt : AREA
30
Chutzpah : GALL
31
Annexes : ELLS
32
Kind of car : USED
33
Fanatical fiddler : NERO
34
Ship on which Hercules sailed : ARGO
35
Tied : EVEN
36
Body-shop topic : DENT
43
Kind of door or shot : TRAP
45
Sommer from Berlin : ELKE
48
Common contraction : ISNT
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Retroussé features : NOSES
51
French ___ : LEAVE
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Autumn color : OCHER
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" ... ___ passion to tatters": Hamlet : TEARA
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Strikebreaker : SCAB
55
Noted traveler : POLO
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Ludwig : EMIL
57
Copied : APED
58
Homme d'___ (French statesman) : ETAT
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Spots : SEES

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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