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Norma Steinberg
Norma Steinberg

New York Times, Wednesday, August 21, 1985

22-Down : Ustinov or O'Toole

Author:
Norma Steinberg
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.72, Missing: { F J Q }, Scrabble score: 313 (avg 1.70)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 19.5
Norma Steinberg has 35 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 17 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,070
Across
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Ointment : BALM
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Cry of a flushed snipe : SCAPE
10
Enos's grandmother : EVE
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Pelvic bone : ILIUM
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Galsworthy novel : TOLET
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Res followers : MIS
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Uncas's friend : NATTYBUMPPO
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Gamp or Gummidge : MRS
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Lasso's sound : WHIRR
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Letter addenda : PSS
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Leaf : PAGE
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Unsophisticated : NAIVE
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Forerunner of the freezer : ICEBOX
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More than several : MANY
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Morse signal : DIT
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Treaty gp. : NATO
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Ovidian declaration : AMO
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MOMA piece : KLEE
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Live it up : REVEL
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Sidekick : PARTNER
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Hymn : CHORALE
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Gin : SNARE
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Bakery tool : PEEL
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Brazilian's coffee : RIO
44
Lou Ferrigno role : HULK
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"___ longa ... " : ARS
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Tatum's father : RYAN
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Thaumaturgist's word : PRESTO
50
___ Dame : NOTRE
52
Motherwell medium : OILS
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N.Z. parrot : KEA
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Morbid condition: Suffix : IASIS
58
Popular street name : ELM
59
Cheerful fictional clerk : BOBCRATCHIT
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Where Wadkins starts : TEE
63
Cornhuskers' city : OMAHA
64
Polished : SUAVE
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Land south of Turk. : SYR
66
Regions : ZONES
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Cheese-store purchase : EDAM
Down
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Storage area : BIN
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"There ought to be ___!" : ALAW
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An S.S.R. : LITH
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Bligh's problem : MUTINY
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Erwin of old films : STU
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Run in a race : COMPETE
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Tyrol's locale : ALPS
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Important enzyme : PEPSIN
9
Ike's domain in 1942 : ETO
10
Subject of a Flaubert masterpiece : EMMABOVARY
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A September sign : VIRGO
12
Lover of Elizabeth I : ESSEX
14
Breckinridge or Hess : MYRA
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Restrain : BRIDLE
22
Ustinov or O'Toole : PETER
24
Contender : VIER
26
Burnett or Channing : CAROL
27
Charts : MAPS
28
"___ for All Seasons" : AMAN
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Ibsen's "doll" : NORAHELMER
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Genuflected : KNELT
35
"Roast Pig" dissertator : ELIA
36
Uris or Goossens : LEON
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Tie up : TRUSS
39
Zilch, to Zapata : CERO
40
Vesta, to Greeks : HESTIA
42
Flamboyance : PANACHE
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Ind. city : KOKOMO
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Save : RESCUE
48
Wilbur and Merrill : POETS
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William Bendix role : RILEY
51
Charlie Brown expletive : RATS
54
Israeli statesman : EBAN
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"If ___ a Hammer" : IHAD
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Hindu god : SIVA
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Dickens's nom de plume : BOZ
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Ethiopian prince : RAS
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Pro ___ : TEM

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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