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Bert H. Kruse
Bert H. Kruse

New York Times, Friday, May 21, 1982

37-Across : Ending for journal or Japan

Author:
Bert H. Kruse
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J K Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Bert H. Kruse has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,882
Across
1
Regarding : ASTO
5
Reduced to residue via fire : ASHED
10
Kind of room, for short : REC
13
Rake's expression : LEER
14
"Over ___" : THERE
15
"Typee" sequel : OMOO
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Pulpit product : PREACHIFICATION
20
Feeling : SENTIENT
21
Chicken ___ : LITTLE
22
___ of Chancery : INNS
23
Problem : CASE
24
Red and Munchausen : BARONS
27
Gymnast's activity : CHINNING
31
Hockey site, e.g. : ARENA
32
Type of grass : BROME
33
"Hail!" : LOO
34
Shore-dinner gear : BIBS
35
Decelerates : SLOWS
36
Roper or Zumwalt : ELMO
37
Ending for journal or Japan : ESE
38
Apes Mount St. Helens : SPEWS
39
Speak in court : PLEAD
40
Rebuked : LECTURED
42
Scandinavian sights : FIORDS
43
In the sack : ABED
44
Judge's place : BANC
45
Sea or States : BALTIC
48
Attitudinizer : POSTURER
52
Soapbox exercise : SPEECHIFICATION
54
Lyre's ancient cousin : ASOR
55
Plume fluid : ENCRE
56
Heater : ETNA
57
Compositors' measures : ENS
58
Sniffs : NOSES
59
Unseemly utterance : SASS
Down
1
Ski center : ALPS
2
Withered : SERE
3
Suffix with six : TEEN
4
Graduation indulgences : ORATIONS
5
Ohio University city : ATHENS
6
Leg parts : SHINS
7
Raise : HEFT
8
Silkworm : ERI
9
Harangues : DECLAIMS
10
London's ___ Row : ROTTEN
11
Give off : EMIT
12
Unrattled : COOL
16
"___ for the money" : ONE
18
Corneille drama: 1640 : CINNA
19
Oise tributary : AISNE
23
Pets with blue-black tongues : CHOWS
24
Bewildering speech center : BABEL
25
Come up : ARISE
26
Violin progenitor : REBEC
27
What a "hot dog" plays to : CROWD
28
River through Bavaria : ILLER
29
Footloose fellow : NOMAD
30
Merchandise : GOODS
32
What blackmailers do : BLEED
35
"___ Sie Deutsch?" : SPRECHEN
36
Holds forth : ELOCUTES
38
Philippine bay : SUBIC
39
Historic caravel : PINTA
41
Spuds : TATERS
42
Authority symbol : FASCES
44
To sip, in Soissons : BOIRE
45
Tenderfoot's org. : BSA
46
Church section : APSE
47
Uris or Jaworski : LEON
48
One-chevron G.I.'s : PFCS
49
Girl in a 1927 musical : RITA
50
A considerable spell : EONS
51
Genetic acids: Abbr. : RNAS
53
Wife of Athamas : INO

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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