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Bert H. Kruse
Bert H. Kruse

Minority Report

New York Times, Sunday, February 19, 1984

83-Down : Petty officer

Author:
Bert H. Kruse
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 168, Blocks: 92, Avg Word Len: 5.20, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 648 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 141, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12, Grid flow: 16.7
Bert H. Kruse has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,521
Across
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Ice pinnacle : SERAC
6
Violin's sire : REBEC
11
Drive down lightly : TAMP
15
Brotherhood Week theme : LOVE
19
Shakespearean deputy : ANGELO
20
Athenians' market centers : AGORAE
22
Asian sitter : AMAH
23
District : AREA
24
Hero of a national holiday starting in 1986 : MARTINLKINGJR
26
Jackie and Bojangles : ROBINSONS
28
Fencer's weapon : EPEE
29
Blue part of Old Glory : FIELD
30
Twain's brother : ORION
32
"___ your heart be troubled": John 14:1 : LETNOT
33
TU-144, e.g. : SST
34
Singer Bailey : PEARL
35
Blueprint : PLAN
36
Ski race : SLALOM
37
Famed Rialto couple : KERRS
38
Buonarroti work : PIETA
39
Nonprofessionals : LAITY
40
Seeks lofty goals : ASPIRES
43
Famed labor-brotherhood organizer : APRANDOLPH
45
Bulge in a billfold : WAD
48
A concern of Cal Peete : STANCE
49
Chummy, in Cheshire : MATEY
51
Diamond units : OUTS
52
College founder ___ Bethune : MARY
53
Abolitionist Sojourner ___ : TRUTH
54
Inheritance items : GENES
55
Aqua ___, gold-dissolving liquid : REGIA
57
Law group : POSSE
58
Raises one's hackles : RILE
59
Blessing : BOON
60
Persians' contemporaries : MEDES
61
Kind of acting : METHOD
62
Crewman : OAR
63
Memorable N.A.A.C.P. director : ROYWILKINS
66
Bayard ___, Washington March organizer: 1963 : RUSTIN
67
Vehicles for Price and Bumbry : OPERAS
69
"___ Allen," by Gwendolyn Brooks : ANNIE
70
Lafayette is here : EASTON
71
Stands : ABIDES
72
Diplomat-editor-orator Frederick and family : DOUGLASSES
74
Scout org.'s former name : GSA
77
Greek nymph : MAENAD
78
Happy tunes : LILTS
80
Train or plane info : SKED
81
Bandleader Kenton : STAN
82
Welles or Bean : ORSON
83
Jolly Roger figures : BONES
84
Cheered : RAHED
86
Electrical problem : SHORT
87
High time : NOON
88
Activist : DOER
89
More with it : SANER
90
Rough shelter : LEANTO
91
Rutledge or Jillian : ANN
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Olympic great : JESSEOWENS
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Presidential hopeful: 1984 : JACKSON
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A Nobelist of 1957 : CAMUS
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Persona non ___ : GRATA
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Part of a Dante work : CANTO
99
Sockeye, for one : SALMON
101
Kids : RIBS
102
Twinges : PANGS
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Turner or Cole : NAT
106
Attribute of Marian Anderson : APLOMB
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Muralist Rivera : DIEGO
109
Presages : BODES
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Rhine tributary : AARE
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N.A.A.C.P. co-founder, historian-sociologist : WEBDUBOIS
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Underground Railroad leader and Union spy : HARRIETTUBMAN
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Geraint's wife : ENID
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Medieval serf : ESNE
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Hooky player : TRUANT
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Get one's bearings : ORIENT
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Brace : STAY
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Ellington : DUKE
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Impressions : DENTS
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Food, clothing, etc. : NEEDS
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Sinecures : SNAPS
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Plume bearer : EGRET
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Neural network : RETE
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The Greatest : ALI
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Award winner : CONFEREE
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Fall guys : RAKERS
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Völund's brother : EGILL
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Civil-rights leader Julian : BOND
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Work unit : ERG
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Wheedler's forte : CAJOLERY
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Tropical food source : TARO
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King in Kings : AMON
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Shelley subject : MAB
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Wendell ___, Anti-Slavery Society president : PHILLIPS
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At the end : LASTLY
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Maine campus site : ORONO
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Spite : VENOM
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Cardinal point : EAST
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Iowa college town : AMES
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Printers' mistakes : ERRATA
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Mythomaniacs : LIARS
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Under, in poesy : NEATH
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___ instant (right away) : INAN
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Fish or roost : PERCH
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Pan's music makers : PIPES
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Board game : SALTA
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Alex Haley hero : KINTE
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Strasbourg export : PATE
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The Brown Bomber : LOUIS
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J. R. Richard was one : ASTRO
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Tiny groove : STRIA
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Memorable actor-singer : PAULROBESON
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Venetian chief : DOGE
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First family of Chicago : WASHINGTONS
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Hot crime : ARSON
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Tinted : DYED
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Catty remarks : MEOWS
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Noted opera costume designer : ANNI
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"We Shall Overcome," e.g. : MOTTO
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Prado sights : GOYAS
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Err at cards : RENIG
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Old car : EDSEL
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Spray candidates : PESTS
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Feeling ennui : BORED
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Calculator key : MINUS
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Thought : MUSED
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Fortification : REDAN
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Serve soup : LADLE
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Grannies, e.g. : KNOTS
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Flattened a flat : RASED
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Tree having edible seeds : PINON
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Glacial-stream deposit : ESKER
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Hammerin' Hank : AARON
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Big name in tennis : ASHE
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Andrea del ___ : SARTO
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Chekhov : ANTON
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Actress Freeman : MONA
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Fine soil : LOESS
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Regarding : INRE
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Military dress hat : SHAKO
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Petty officer : BOSUN
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Carries on : RANTS
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Handle for Brutus : ANSA
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Faiths : SECTS
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Discharged, as from the R.A.F. : DEMOBBED
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Atlantic coast, e.g. : SEABOARD
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Poet-dramatist-novelist Hughes : LANGSTON
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___ and Kashmir, Indian state : JAMMU
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Monster : OGRE
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Creator of Bigger Thomas : WRIGHT
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Leigh or Gaynor : JANET
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Like plowed but unharrowed acres : CLODDY
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Fellow graduates with Gen. Benjamin Davis Jr.: 1936 : CADETS
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All in : SPENT
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Iowa coal center : ALBIA
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Pencil part : POINT
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Dubbed : NAMED
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Isles off Ireland : ARANS
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Something to pitch : TENT
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Dumbfounds : AWES
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Drop shot for Noah : DINK
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What "video" means : ISEE
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Breakfast food : BRAN
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Nichols suitor : ABIE
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Columbus inst. : OSU
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Regret : RUE
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Yorkshire river : URE

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 10 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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