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Fred Keller
Fred Keller

New York Times, Saturday, August 25, 1979

Author:
Fred Keller
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 21.0
Fred Keller has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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B
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A
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W
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L
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M
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O
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C
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W
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L
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K
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P
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L
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C
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S
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R
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D
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P
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I
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D
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P
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M
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B
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T
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S
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G
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O
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H
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M
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O
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N
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P
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A
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L
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M
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S
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L
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,882
Across
1
Cry : BAWL
5
Gather : AMASS
10
Robeson or Dunbar : PAUL
14
Largest land mass : ASIA
15
African tribe : BANTU
16
Grand Ole ___ : OPRY
17
Tiller : HELM
18
Audibly : ALOUD
19
Burn : CHAR
20
Fire or closeout follower : SALE
21
Rather or McGrew : DAN
22
" ... Talk ___ of Me and Thee": "Rubáiyát" : AWHILE
24
Filling : INLAY
26
Prepare to pray : KNEEL
27
Typewriter roller : PLATEN
29
Yesterday, in Ypres : HIER
30
Sci. suffix : ICS
33
Lover : ROMEO
34
Stupid : DENSE
35
For : PRO
36
Frosted : ICED
37
Scottish coronach : DIRGE
38
Support : PROP
39
Fairy queen : MAB
40
Tailless amphibians : TOADS
41
Fertilizer : GUANO
42
___ Faithful : OLD
43
Ancient marauders : HUNS
44
Nat ___, rebellious slave : TURNER
45
Employment : USAGE
47
Softened : MUTED
48
Out ___ (at large) : ONBAIL
50
Calloway : CAB
51
Opposite of yep : NOPE
54
Salem ___, black Revolutionary War hero : POOR
55
A.M. buzzer : ALARM
57
Fitzgerald : ELLA
58
Inter ___ : ALIA
59
Dark brown : SEPIA
60
Guesswork, for short : SPEC
61
Legree's weapon : LASH
62
Black-eyed or Lazy : SUSAN
63
Iranian monarch : SHAH
Down
1
Exclamations of contempt : BAHS
2
Out on the Coral : ASEA
3
He wrote "The Souls of Black Folk": 1903 : WILLIAMEBDUBOIS
4
Wailed : LAMENTED
5
Mideast oil-refining center : ABADAN
6
Archipelago or peninsula : MALAY
7
Unknown auth. : ANON
8
R–V connection : STU
9
African native : SUDANESE
10
Pocket, in Paris : POCHE
11
Memorable black labor leader : APHILIPRANDOLPH
12
___ Mountains : URAL
13
Orpheus played it : LYRE
23
"The Way We ___" : WERE
25
Zodiac sign : LEO
26
M. L. Jr.'s kin : KINGS
27
Boxer Carnera : PRIMO
28
Kind of color : LOCAL
29
Drives together : HERDS
31
Hag : CRONE
32
Deep sleep : SOPOR
34
Actress Keaton : DIANE
37
Frederick ___, black abolitionist : DOUGLASS
38
Freedom from admixture : PURENESS
40
Native of Bangkok : THAI
41
Kind of feeling or issue : GUT
44
Role played by Cicely Tyson : TUBMAN
46
Vaughan : SARAH
47
"West Side Story" song : MARIA
48
Gem : OPAL
49
Vincent Lopez favorite : NOLA
50
Headgear : CAPS
52
Appeal : PLEA
53
Every's partner : EACH
56
Rumanian monetary unit : LEU

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

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