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Louise Rabb
Louise Rabb

New York Times, Thursday, August 20, 1959

39-Down : Roman official.

Author:
Louise Rabb
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 9, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7 Grid has supersymmetry.
Louise Rabb has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,688
Across
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Something to munch on. : PEANUT
7
Layers. : STRATA
13
Ductile. : TENSILE
14
Battle formation. : PHALANX
16
Crossroads of America. : INDIANA
17
Good policy. : HONESTY
18
Black cuckoo. : ANI
19
Young tree. : SAPLING
21
Part of R.S.V.P. : SIL
22
Carry on vocally. : RAVE
24
Famous Chinese family. : SOONG
25
Youth goddess. : HEBE
26
Rectify. : AMEND
28
Burdensome charge. : TAX
29
Ancient physician. : GALEN
30
Musical group. : SESTET
32
Frozen dessert. : MOUSSE
33
Instance of man's inhumanity to man. : WAR
34
Common suffix. : ION
35
Small sermon. : HOMILY
38
Meddle: Slang. : BUTTIN
42
Praying figure. : ORANT
43
Vegetable. : YAM
46
Coat with lead and tin. : TERNE
47
Only. : MERE
48
Descriptive of some voices. : NASAL
50
Hitchhiker's goal. : RIDE
51
Karim's title. : AGA
52
Mollycoddle. : MILKSOP
54
Bridge term. : BID
55
Angel in "Green Pastures." : GABRIEL
57
Slander. : TRADUCE
59
State formally. : ENOUNCE
60
Chanted. : INTONED
61
Wrongful dispossession: Law. : OUSTER
62
Ethnic divisions. : CASTES
Down
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Pseudonym. : PENNAME
2
Salad makings. : ENDIVES
3
"___ was saying." : ASI
4
Island west of Sumatra. : NIAS
5
Bones. : ULNAS
6
Household container. : TEAPOT
7
Colossal figure at Gaza. : SPHINX
8
Strap. : THONG
9
Tolled. : RANG
10
Brew. : ALE
11
Mortarboard adornments. : TASSELS
12
Resort town near Nice. : ANTIBES
13
Dress-up items for the queen. : TIARAS
15
Oily hydrocarbon. : XYLENE
20
Mauna ___. : LOA
23
Weave. : ENTWINE
25
Frequenter. : HAUNTER
27
Started a card game. : DEALT
29
Be extinguished. : GOOUT
31
Strive. : TRY
32
Marble. : MIB
35
Reverence. : HOMAGE
36
Herb for seasoning. : OREGANO
37
Large stork. : MARABOU
39
Roman official. : TRIBUNE
40
Lists in reference books. : INDICES
41
Lacked. : NEEDED
43
Kind of "dawg." : YALLER
44
Invite. : ASK
45
Aromatic gum. : MASTIC
48
Member of the family. : NIECE
49
Blackmore character. : LORNA
52
Aromatic herb. : MINT
53
Light touches. : PATS
56
People of Kiev. : RUS
58
Speck. : DOT

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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