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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

March of Words

New York Times, Sunday, March 21, 1954

82-Across : Browned crust on dishes.

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 170, Blocks: 76, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { Q }, Scrabble score: 681 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 154, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 24, Grid flow: 48.0 Grid has double diagonal symmetry. Grid has duplicate clues.
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,727
Across
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Book in red and black. : LEDGER
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Young and frisky. : COLTISH
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Morning-after applications. : ICEBAGS
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Creator of Tartuffe. : MOLIERE
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Late. : OVERDUE
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Bone bearing the upper teeth. : MAXILLA
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Coincide in part. : OVERLAP
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Ready to forgive. : LENIENT
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One of Malenkov's titles. : PREMIER
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Promenade, boat, etc. : DECKS
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Sum up. : ADD
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Surveyor's nail. : SPAD
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Boxers. : DOGS
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Hammarskjold. : DAG
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Common suffixes. : ESTS
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Remark in "Strange Interlude." : ASIDE
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Plainsman of Argentina. : LLANERO
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Legal job. : CASE
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Where Regulus is. : LEO
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Cause coldness between. : ESTRANGE
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Orderly. : NEAT
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It is one with Nineveh and Tyre. : SIDON
44
Portents in the wind. : STRAWS
46
Scrutinizer. : EYER
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Box elder genus. : ACER
48
Convincing. : POTENT
49
Barkley's former title: Slang. : VEEP
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Refined ore. : SMELTED
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Former middleweight titleholder. : ZALE
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Charley E. Johns of Florida. : GOVERNOR
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Four seasons. : YEAR
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Pottery fragment. : SHARD
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Embonpoint. : FAT
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Hockey surface. : ICE
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Sharpen. : STROP
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Upbraid. : TWIT
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Daughter of Oedipus. : ANTIGONE
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Man's nickname. : BERT
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Lustrous satins. : ETOILES
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A Charlie Chaplin street. : EASY
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Gnaw away. : ERODE
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Film actress and singer. : LAMOUR
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Yacht-racing category. : STARCLASS
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Browned crust on dishes. : GRATIN
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Monstrous: Poetic. : ENORM
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Man's nickname. : STAN
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Barbed javelin. : HARPOON
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Early movie star. : BARA
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Certain sheet metal. : TINPLATE
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Sheet bend. : KNOT
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Fight. : SCRAP
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Company for Magog. : GOG
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Had a place. : SAT
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Watchful. : ALERT
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Whit. : IOTA
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Illuminant. : KEROSENE
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Himalaya heights (with "the"). : HUMP
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Red-berried sprigs. : HOLLIES
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Stick. : GLUE
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Icy rains. : SLEETS
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By ___! : JOVE
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All hands on deck. : CREW
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Undamaged. : INTACT
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Enumerates. : TELLS
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Blameless. : PURE
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Loaded. : WEIGHTED
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Oppose. : BAR
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Ready for geriatrics. : AGED
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Largest of the Balearic Islands. : MAJORCA
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Arab chief. : EMEER
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Protection. : CARE
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Game. : TAG
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Circle: used in Japanese ship names. : MARU
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Motion picture studios. : LOTS
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Poetic time. : EEN
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Lively old dance. : GALOP
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Type used since 1501. : ITALICS
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Hold. : CONTAIN
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Winter capital of Libya. : TRIPOLI
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Room of the Last Supper. : CENACLE
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Critical examiner. : ANALYST
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In snug harbor. : HAVENED
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Waiting room furniture. : SETTEES
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DeMille and others. : AGNESES
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Rubbed into a nap, as leather. : SUEDED
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6-0. : LOVESET
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Voter. : ELECTOR
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Short swords. : DIRKS
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Coagulates. : GELS
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Important period. : ERA
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Good meal. : REPAST
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Earmuff weather. : COLDDAYS
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Egg-shaped ornament: Fr. : OVE
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Camera part. : LENS
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Almost a homer. : TRIPLE
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High goal. : IDEAL
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Rite among Plains Indians. : SUNDANCE
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All ___ up. : HET
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Significance. : IMPORT
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A holdful. : CARGO
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Letters. : EXES
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Barbados inhabitant. : BIM
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Surveyor's telescope. : ALIDADE
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"Mr. Saturday Night." : GLEASON
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Painter of "Mme. X." : SARGENT
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Small copies. : MODELS
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Foreboding. : DIRE
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"___ Brutus." : DEAR
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Yesman. : ASSENTER
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Hostile. : ENEMY
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Lacks. : NEEDS
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Adduce. : CITE
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Jugs. : EWERS
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Receptionist. : GREETER
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Member of A. U. S. : SOLDIER
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Hail! : AVE
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Italian town. : ATRI
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Duty. : PART
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Mobile or Houston. : PORT
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Where Stevenson was in 1925. : LAWSCHOOL
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Buffoon. : ZANY
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Gravy ingredients. : GIBLETS
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Where Guam is. : OCEANIA
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Where Smugglers Notch is. : VERMONT
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Announcer of dawn. : ROOSTER
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Informal seat. : HASSOCK
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Length of film. : FOOTAGE
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Hearth metal. : ANDIRON
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Juvenile. : TEENAGE
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Agave fiber. : PITA
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Move with speed. : TEAR
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Indecorous seizure. : GRAB
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Small farm, in Sweden. : TORP
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Tall and scrawny. : LANK
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Vipers. : ASPS
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Marks on German vowels. : UMLAUTS
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Device of crossed slats. : LATTICE
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More twisted. : GNARLIER
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Proceeding. : STEP
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Gov. Patterson's state: Abbr. : OREG
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Concrete charity. : ALMS
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Rosetta's river. : NILE
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$2.80 plus. : POUND
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Complete: Var. : THORO
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High perch. : AERIE
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Ready. : SET
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Occupied. : HELD
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Protracted. : OVERLONG
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Pieces of arthropods. : SEGMENTS
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Branch of mechanics. : STATICS
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Heir. : LEGATEE
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Fine: Colloq. : ELEGANT
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African fetish. : JUJU
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Cry used for speed or joy. : WHEE
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Sea ear. : ABALONE
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Sang. : CAROLED
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Timorous. : TREPID
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Breaks into grammatical parts. : PARSES
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Dewlap. : WATTLE
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Tithes. : TENTHS
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Twin crystal. : MACLE
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Doyle's middle name. : CONAN
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Cloaked for evening. : CAPED
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Cartoon perennials. : MICE
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"It ___ here ..." : SAYS
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Red Cross slogan. : GIVE
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Classical tongue: Abbr. : LAT
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Aeronautics agency: Abbr. : CAA
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Fjord of the Kattegat. : ISE
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Late Sir Benegal of India. : RAU

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3 unique to this puzzle, 21 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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