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Ronald C. Hirschfeld
Ronald C. Hirschfeld

New York Times, Wednesday, June 3, 1992

23-Across : Salesclerk: Br.

Author:
Ronald C. Hirschfeld
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { X }, Scrabble score: 335 (avg 1.81)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 30.2
Ronald C. Hirschfeld has 25 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,548
Across
1
Pilgrimage : HADJ
5
Cincinnati's river : OHIO
9
Prospector's stakeout : CLAIM
14
Mary's co-star in "South Pacific" : EZIO
15
Entrepreneur Griffin : MERV
16
Greek goddesses : HORAE
17
Author of "Portnoy's Complaint" : ROTH
18
Medicinal plant : ALOE
19
Likeness : IMAGE
20
Business-letter abbr. : ATTN
21
Inn man? : HENRYCABOT
23
Salesclerk: Br. : SHOPMAN
25
Interrogatory interjection : HEH
26
Towel monogram : HIS
27
Large bottle : DEMIJOHN
32
___ Ababa : ADDIS
35
"Norma ___," 1979 film : RAE
36
Greek music halls : ODEA
37
Songwriter Sedaka : NEIL
38
Not give ___ : ADARN
40
Trumpeter Al : HIRT
41
Roman year that is palindromic in Arabic : DCVI
42
Achieve : WIN
43
Scottish mystery writer : INNES
44
Bluefish : SKIPJACK
46
Marquand's "H. M. Pulham, ___" : ESQ
47
Table scrap : ORT
48
In name only : TITULAR
52
Painstaking man? : HENRYDAVID
57
Bulwer-Lytton heroine : IONE
58
Distant; reserved : ALOOF
59
Biblical weed : TARE
60
Actress Naldi : NITA
61
Island in Taiwan Strait : MATSU
62
Unique person : ONER
63
Craw : CROP
64
Former president of NOW : SMEAL
65
A 1981 film : REDS
66
Urges : YENS
Down
1
Zeus's wife and namesakes : HERAS
2
Mercury, to alchemists : AZOTH
3
The same : DITTO
4
Phone man? : JOHNPHILIP
5
Siouan people in Neb. : OMAHAS
6
___ of Troy : HELEN
7
Mangle : IRON
8
Eavesdrop : OVERHEAR
9
Pretentiously elegant : CHICHI
10
Broad-topped hill : LOMA
11
Damascene, e.g. : ARAB
12
Verdi villain : IAGO
13
Convene : MEET
22
Country on the Red Sea : YEMEN
24
Improperly: Prefix : MIS
27
Imbibed : DRANK
28
Apple-owning man? : JOHNQUINCY
29
Chief Norse god : ODIN
30
Roll-call response : HERE
31
Cole and Turner : NATS
32
Ampersands : ANDS
33
Orlop or poop : DECK
34
Half a Caribbean tree : DIVI
38
Prize : AWARD
39
"The Great ___," Chaplin film : DICTATOR
43
Adherent : IST
45
Festive : JOYFUL
46
Duck downs : EIDERS
48
Spent : TIRED
49
Tours's river : LOIRE
50
Composer Bruckner : ANTON
51
Harvests : REAPS
52
Smokers' products : HAMS
53
Ancient kingdom : ELAM
54
Musical tone : NOTE
55
Artist Bonheur : ROSA
56
Rooster on a spire : VANE

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

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