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Thomas Meekin
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New York Times, Sunday, March 5, 1950

1-Across : Section of a football team.

Author:
Thomas Meekin
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 71, Avg Word Len: 5.36, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 541 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 148, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 34
Thomas Meekin has 202 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1950, The New York TimesNo. 421
Across
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Section of a football team. : BACKS
6
Tributary of the Hudson. : MOHAWK
12
Take the tenth part of. : DECIMATE
20
Tapuyan Indian. : ACROA
21
Parasitic W. I. tree. : ARALIE
22
Of the nature of a summary. : EPITOMIC
23
Timid. : SCARY
24
Four kings and the nine of trumps: Pinochle. : NINETY
25
Fighting. : MILITANT
26
Sea birds. : ERNES
27
Dramatic complication. : NODE
28
Barracuda. : SPET
30
Dividing walls. : SEPTA
31
Yakutsk's river. : LENA
32
Betray. : SELL
33
Cheers. : RAHS
35
South African Dutch. : TAAL
36
Paraguayan city. : ITA
37
Bouts with John Barleycorn. : SPREES
39
Doctrines. : TENETS
41
Nullifies. : NEGATES
43
___ sous le Vent: French Oceania. : ILES
45
Negotiated. : TREATED
50
Paradisaic. : EDENIC
51
Most cautious. : WARIEST
54
Stranger. : EERIER
55
Primitive social group life. : TRIBALISM
57
A race of cherries. : AMARELLE
59
Beyond the ___. : PALE
62
Part of a hunter's cap. : EARLAP
63
Cherry stone. : CLAM
64
Unsettles. : SAPS
65
Product of a glory hole. : ORE
66
Ku Klux unit. : KLAN
67
Oil center on the Caspian. : BAKU
68
Knockouts. : KOS
69
Opera cloak. : WRAP
71
Snake charmer's clarinet. : BEEN
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___ Blandish, Enid Bagnold's heroine. : SERENA
74
Native servant in India. : MATY
75
Water measurers in irrigating ditches. : DIVISORS
77
Where Botany Bay is. : AUSTRALIA
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Leveler. : EVENER
80
Medieval silk fabrics. : SAMITES
82
Without aim. : ADRIFT
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Persistent: Bot. : RESTANT
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Formal act. : RITE
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___ New York. : GREATER
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Shooting star. : LEONID
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Flower. : DAHLIA
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___ Whitney. : ELI
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___ Alto. : PALO
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Once called a shawm. : OBOE
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Secular. : LAIC
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Reputed discoverer of America. : ERIC
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Marketplace. : AGORA
105
The caama. : ASSE
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Hawk. : VEND
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Dexterity. : KNACK
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Niagara Falls. : CATARACT
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Command to the Light Brigade. : CHARGE
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Till. : UNTIL
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Title of honor. : EMINENCE
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___ Prynne. : HESTER
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Undressed kid. : SUEDE
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Charlie Chaplin's famous role. : DICTATOR
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Nymphs. : OREADS
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Export of Argentina. : HIDES
Down
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Side of a diamond. : BASELINE
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Grown together. : ACCRETED
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Measured catch of herrings. : CRANNAGE
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Where Seoul is. : KOREA
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Recites. : SAYS
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Ways of acting. : MANNERS
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Baltimore player. : ORIOLE
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Deal with. : HANDLE
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Not aweather. : ALEE
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Acumen. : WIT
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Fashioned by Gabriel Varden, in "Barnaby Rudge." : KEYS
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Lower. : DEMEAN
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Significant appellation. : EPITHET
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Eyelash: Rare. : CIL
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A disease: Suffix. : ITIS
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Choral composition. : MOTET
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Mexican timber tree. : AMAPA
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Red wine of Madeira. : TINTA
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Exterior: Anat. : ECTAL
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Throng. : PRESS
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Hard cash. : SPECIE
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Current. : STREAM
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Hubbub. : STIR
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Resembling the Dog Star. : SIRIAN
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Pour out. : TEEM
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Clairvoyant. : SEER
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Pay one's part. : ANTE
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Speech defect. : LISP
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Mars. : ARES
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Red spot worn on forehead by Hindus. : TILAKA
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Fish trap. : EELPOT
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Word befitting Beau Brummell. : DRESSY
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Peaceful. : WARLESS
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Haggard's Quatermain. : ALLAN
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Nuisances at movie. : TALKERS
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Sobriquet of Louis XVI. : BAKER
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___ Loa, Hawaiian volcano. : MAUNA
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Dust. : POWDER
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Come in. : ARRIVE
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Goes out. : LEAVES
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___ blanche. : CARTE
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Outstripped. : BESTED
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Four gills. : PINT
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Home of Barnum's wild man. : BORNEO
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Satisfy. : SUIT
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Gothic king. : ALARIC
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Name claimed by Naomi. : MARA
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Validate. : SEAL
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Surrounded by. : AMID
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Impression. : IDEA
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Zodiacal ram. : ARIES
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Repeated. : ITERATED
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Killing of a cat. : FELICIDE
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Drips. : TRICKLES
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Brought to England by Sir Francis Drake. : TOBACCO
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Planes. : GLIDERS
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Pater ___. : NOSTER
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Password: Sp. : ALERTA
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Executed by Jack Ketch. : HANGED
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Walked. : PACED
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Trumpeter bird. : AGAMI
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Living in rapidly moving currents, as plants. : LOTIC
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Figure in the catacombs. : ORANT
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Boredom. : ENNUI
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Region. : AREA
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Voice of a nymph. : ECHO
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Flower holder. : VASE
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Ancient country in Nile Valley. : KUSH
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Symbol of industry. : ANT
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Pronoun. : HER

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6 unique to this puzzle, 28 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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