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Israel Gitter
Israel Gitter

New York Times, Wednesday, April 22, 1953

26-Down : Capital of Crete.

Author:
Israel Gitter
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 15
Israel Gitter has 34 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,403
Across
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Audience reaction, not approving. : BOOS
5
Lawyers: Abbr. : ATTS
9
Greek letter. : ALPHA
14
Protestant group: Abbr. : LUTH
15
Asiatic V. I. P. : RHEE
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A nonmetallic element. : BORON
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Eight: Comb. form. : OCTO
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Nations having great military strength. : LANDPOWERS
20
Popular dish after the theatre. : CHOWMEIN
22
Black Sea port. : ODESSA
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Interdicts. : BANS
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Butane and propane. : FUELS
25
Beginning of a play. : ACTONE
28
Put into forced labor. : ENSLAVE
31
American naval historian. : MAHAN
32
Source of penicillin. : MOLD
34
Coagulate. : GEL
35
Dill seed. : ANET
36
Damon Runyon girls. : DOLLS
37
The sun: Comb. form. : HELI
38
Pronoun. : HER
39
Famous U. S. chemist. : UREY
40
Zoo attraction. : PANDA
41
Duelist who kills and is killed. : LAERTES
44
Spain's legislature. : CORTES
45
Creator of Professor Moriarty. : DOYLE
46
Native of India. : GOND
47
Honor. : ADMIRE
49
Railroad conveyances. : HANDCARS
53
Part of U. S. retail business. : MAILORDERS
55
City in the Black Earth area. : OREL
56
New U. S. envoy to India. : ALLEN
57
Philippine island. : CEBU
58
Indian coin. : ANNA
59
Soprano Gueden of the Met. : HILDE
60
"The Great Gawd Budd." : IDOL
61
Famous name in show business. : LOEW
Down
1
Congressional faction. : BLOC
2
It hurts! : OUCH
3
Last of the Hapsburgs. : OTTO
4
Jerome Kern classic. : SHOWBOAT
5
Miss Francis of TV. : ARLENE
6
Massenet heroine. : THAIS
7
Sen. Gore's state: Abbr. : TENN
8
But: Latin. : SED
9
Habitations. : ABODES
10
Former president of Harvard. : LOWELL
11
Broadway V. I. P. : PRESSAGENT
12
___ de combat (out of the fight): Fr. : HORS
13
Handle. : ANSA
19
Animal shelters. : POUNDS
21
He wrote "The Holy Sinner." : MANN
24
Exterior rim of a wheel. : FELLY
25
Hero of a Menotti opera. : AMAHL
26
Capital of Crete. : CANEA
27
Victor Herbert operetta. : THEREDMILL
29
Congressional investigator. : VELDE
30
Inventor Howe. : ELIAS
32
Independent Senator. : MORSE
33
Shout in a bull arena. : OLE
36
Aaron Burr was one. : DUELER
37
What we get from Scranton. : HARDCOAL
40
Place for a swimming hole. : POND
42
Ruffled the temper of. : ROILED
43
Famous first name in Hollywood. : TYRONE
44
Career diplomat. : CONSUL
46
Actress from Sweden. : GARBO
47
Indian nurse. : AMAH
48
Surrealist painter. : DALI
49
Observe. : HEED
50
Florence's river. : ARNO
51
Mayer of France. : RENE
52
Table d'hote item. : SLAW
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601. : DCI

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 12 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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