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Bernard Meren
Bernard Meren

New York Times, Saturday, February 18, 1989

14-Across : Needle case

Author:
Bernard Meren
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 251 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 102.2
Bernard Meren has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,347
Across
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Minstrel : BARD
5
Faux pas : GAFFE
10
___ Gemayel, President of Lebanon : AMIN
14
Needle case : ETUI
15
Off the cuff : ADLIB
16
Heart : CORE
17
Early Olympics site : ELIS
18
Mont. county : TOOLE
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Eccentric oldster : COOT
20
Highest peak of the Bernese Alps : FINSTERAARHORN
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Resource : ASSET
24
Greek cross : TAU
25
It is, in Bilbao : ESTA
27
Norse goddess : EIR
29
Related on the mother's side : ENATE
33
Juvenal's forte : SATIRE
35
Turner or Hentoff : NAT
37
Disney sci-fi film : TRON
38
Urgent work for a tailor? : PRESSINGMISSION
41
Hebrew letter : ALEF
42
"Agnus ___" : DEI
43
Author or cloak : CAPOTE
44
Of bodily tissue : TELAR
46
Psychic initials : ESP
48
Aptly titled English spa : BATH
49
Mountain pass : COL
51
Suspicious : LEERY
53
Sports org. established in 1876 : NATIONALLEAGUE
59
Roast, in Rouen : ROTI
60
Erie or root follower : CANAL
61
"Hair today, gone tomorrow" adjective : BALD
62
Former Congolese prime minister : ILEO
63
Tow, as by an anchor chain : KEDGE
64
Ranger or Eagle : LONE
65
Naval off. : BOSN
66
Site of the Krupp works : ESSEN
67
Mideastern airline : ELAL
Down
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Complaint : BEEF
2
Gudrun's victim : ATLI
3
Undo : RUIN
4
Uneasiness : DISSATISFACTION
5
Victorious general at Saratoga : GATES
6
Actress Renée : ADOREE
7
Custard desserts : FLOATINGISLANDS
8
Threadlike parts : FILA
9
Weimar Republic's first president : EBERT
10
Debts that are due : ACCOUNTSPAYABLE
11
Othello was one : MOOR
12
Kind of hand or horse : IRON
13
Bottom line : NET
21
Peter and Ivan : TSARS
22
"Some ___ meat ... ": Burns : HAE
25
City near Memphis : EARLE
26
Brace (oneself) : STEEL
28
Namath was once one : RAM
30
Out of control : ARIOT
31
Nail's partner : TOOTH
32
Nine: Comb. form : ENNE
33
Gaiter : SPAT
34
Leif ___, former news commentator : EID
36
Facial spasm : TIC
39
Society-page word : NEE
40
Any Buffalo N.H.L. player : SABRE
45
Reine's spouse : ROI
47
Hair : PELAGE
50
U.S. humorist-journalist: 1833-88 : LOCKE
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Vera ___ of musicals : ELLEN
53
___ contendere : NOLO
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Actor Roscoe ___ : ATES
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Scottish refusals : NAES
56
Coventry cooler : GAOL
57
Cubitus : ULNA
58
A biographer of Henry James : EDEL
59
Eve, once : RIB

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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