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Bert Rosenfield
Bert Rosenfield

Memoranda

New York Times, Sunday, March 25, 1990

Author:
Bert Rosenfield
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 76, Avg Word Len: 5.29, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 524 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 127, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 20, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 14, Grid flow: 45.0
Bert Rosenfield has 60 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,747
Across
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Wrinkled : RUGATE
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Word that may stop a truck : EATS
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Gen. ___ Arnold : HAP
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Kind of plan : GAME
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Former U.K. judicial writ : ELEGIT
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___ cog (err) : SLIPA
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Football Hall-of-Famer Parker : ACE
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Boesky of finance : IVAN
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Memo to a gabby vintner : PUTACORKINIT
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Use a death ray : ZAP
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Norm's unseen wife in "Cheers" : VERA
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Far out : ULTRA
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Combiner with dyne or doxy : HETERO
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Arcane : ESOTERIC
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Monogram of the 21st V.P. : TAH
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Covert's cousin : LAIR
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Pollster's unit : SAMPLE
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Took the bait : BITAT
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Saison chaude : ETE
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Oldest settler in the west : SUN
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A-U vowel connection : EIO
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Nine-to-fiver : STENO
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Rue ___ Paix : DELA
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Memo to a sluggish walnut processor : GETCRACKING
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Shebat, ___, Nisan : ADAR
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Dir. to Rochester from Buffalo : ENE
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Cinnabar, for one : ORE
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One on the watch : ESPIER
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Institute in Brooklyn : PRATT
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Kin of strathspeys : REELS
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Cohan song: 1907 : HARRIGAN
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Effulge : RADIATE
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Sartre novel : NAUSEA
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Word in Kan.'s motto : ASPERA
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Kant's concern : EGO
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Memo to a careless Bonn teller : GETONYOURMARK
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___ Downing Street : TEN
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Small pikeperch : SAUGER
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New Zealand's discoverer : TASMAN
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Fatuous : IDIOTIC
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Lacking a breastbone : ASTERNAL
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"___ Kick Out of You" : IGETA
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Nary a soul : NOONE
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Came down in buckets : TEEMED
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Durango demonstrative : ESA
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Land-based newt : EFT
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___-Cynwyd, near Philadelphia : BALA
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Memo to a waiting taxidermist : DOYOURSTUFF
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Riza Khan Pahlevi, e.g. : SHAH
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Bouquet : AROMA
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"___ Alone" from "The Desert Song" : ONE
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Like sushi : RAW
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Qua ___ (here and there, in Napoli) : ELA
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___ Gulf, Aegean Sea inlet : SAROS
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Evince affection : CARESS
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___-bel-Abbès, onetime Foreign Legion home : SIDI
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Afghan coin : PUL
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Kind of shoe : ELEVATOR
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Arabian kettledrum : ATABAL
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Wynonna Judd's mom : NAOMI
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"Bank ___" (old movie-house come-on) : NITE
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Israeli burp gun : UZI
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Memo from a bored stripteaser : SAMEOLDGRIND
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Acronym for an aircraft's ascent : JATO
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Where Trevino got his start : TEE
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AFB in Fla. : EGLIN
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Auricles : PINNAE
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"It ___ ancient Mariner" : ISAN
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Boundless: Abbr. : UNL
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Garth, in "Ivanhoe" : ESNE
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Bihar and Kerala : STATES
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Supposed to be such : REPUTED
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Keen : ULULATE
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Memo to a lazy galena miner : GETTHELEADOUT
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Petri-dish filler : AGAR
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Siamese coins : TICALS
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Ike and Monty's bailiwick : ETO
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Gravel ridge in a glacier : ESKER
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Finished hang gliding : ALIT
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Antler subdivisions : TINES
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Meadowsweet : SPIRAEA
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Noisette : HAZEL
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"___ of Identity," S. Holmes adventure : ACASE
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Squash, for one : PEPO
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Memo to a hasty seamstress : GIVEITARIP
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Warded off : AVERTED
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___ Trench (deepest Pacific area) : MARIANA
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Thespian or thesmothete : ENACTOR
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Kind of pile : ATOMIC
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Where Alberich struck gold : RHINE
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TV network logo : TBS
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L.B.J.'s birth month : AUG
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Sourdough's sack : POKE
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Prefix with tank or trust : ANTI
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Part of a golf club : TOE
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Hurt's victim in "Body Heat" : CRENNA
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Fresh crews : RELAYS
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Bandleader-songwriter Jones : ISHAM
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American news execs' org. : NPA
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Name of cities in Ill., Kan., Ohio and Pa. : GIRARD
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Whatnot : ETAGERE
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Former Brooklyn pitcher : ERSKINE
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Cue in group singing : PRESA
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Sitar solos : RAGAS
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Out of the labor mkt. : RET
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Finland, to Sibelius : SUOMI
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Memo to a U.S.M.A. recruit : GETTOTHEPOINT
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"When the sheep ___ the fauld ... " : AREIN
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Onetime V.P. John ___ Garner : NANCE
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Coated with tin-lead alloy : TERNED
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Metalworking tools: Var. : SUAGES
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Conductor Ansermet : ERNEST
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Yorkshire town NW of Leeds : OTLEY
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U.S. architects' org. : AIA
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Memo to a dilatory chess player : GETAMOVEON
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Reactions to solar-plexus punches : OOFS
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"Yo te ___" (Avila avowal) : AMO
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Kind of cross : TAU
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Updike's "The Same ___" : DOOR
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African dog : BASENJI
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Houseplants used medicinally : ARALIAS
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Lynn from Ky. : LORETTA
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Disquiet : UNEASE
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Put a play on again : RESTAGE
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Furbelow : FRILL
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Cabbage Patch dolls, e.g. : FAD
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Bennington homecomers : ALUMNAE
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Some chemical compounds : HALIDES
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Soft-drink tycoon Candler : ASA
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Improvise : WINGIT
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Defraud : COZEN
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A moon of Uranus : ARIEL
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Houston and Coleridge: Abbr. : SAMLS
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Rhone River augmenter : SAONE
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Garb for Patricia McBride : TUTU
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"Oh, to ___ England ... ": Browning : BEIN
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Author Bontemps : ARNA
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Unfortunates of W.W. II : DPS

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 20 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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