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Sidney Lambert
Sidney Lambert

MENAGERIE

New York Times, Sunday, June 20, 1954

122-Across : Breakwater.

Author:
Sidney Lambert
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 146, Blocks: 76, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 530 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 113, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 20, Grid flow: 33.3
Sidney Lambert has 114 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Grid mistake in original—76-Across was BEAR (now corrected to PEAR), and 69-Down was ABES (now corrected to APES).

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© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,818
Across
1
Junto. : CABAL
6
Inge's forte. : DRAMA
11
Border. : ABUT
15
Baltic native. : ESTH
19
Poplar tree. : ABELE
20
Comforter. : EASER
21
Native of Yunan. : LOLO
22
Forty-eight years hence. : MMII
23
Collegiate chin fest. : BULLSESSION
25
Misleading tips. : BUMSTEERS
27
Christmas or Easter: Abbr. : ISL
28
Twigs for grafting. : SLIPS
29
He loves: Lat. : AMAT
31
Scraps of waste glass. : CULLET
32
Savings account. : NESTEGG
34
Man's name. : ALAN
35
West Indian shrub. : ANIL
36
Man on a lease. : TENANT
38
English body of underwriters. : LLOYDS
41
Weave in and out. : SNAKE
44
Copybook: Fr. : CAHIER
46
Pile driver weight. : RAM
48
Comparative suffix. : IOR
50
Thomas Moore's land. : ERIN
51
Stand on an outer edge. : UPEND
52
Unit of electrical capacity. : FARAD
54
Indians' big chief. : LOPEZ
56
Cuckoo. : ANI
57
NATO, for instance. : PACT
58
Indian chiefs. : SAGAMORES
60
Treated as a favorite. : PETTED
62
Author Wolfert. : IRA
63
Sonora Indian. : SERI
64
Full of years. : AGED
65
William Tell's canton. : URI
66
Teenage activity. : DATING
68
Pliable, gullible chap. : CATSPAW
71
Backyard Lothario. : TOMCAT
75
Hungry Horse, for instance. : DAM
76
Fruit tree. : PEAR
77
War god. : ARES
79
Pronoun. : OUR
80
Put on a new front. : REFACE
83
Police officers. : SERGEANTS
85
Piece of ground. : ACRE
86
Beside: Prefix. : EPI
87
Distinguishes. : KNOWS
89
Girl's nickname. : ESSIE
90
South African breadstuffs. : DIKAS
91
Gray color. : MIST
93
Refrain syllable. : TRA
94
See 80 Down. : SAN
95
Lethal suffixes. : CIDALS
96
Relative of hematite or limonite. : OCHER
98
Name on a story. : BYLINE
102
Famed soprano. : GARDEN
104
Rebuff. : SLAP
106
Without interest. : ARID
107
When Mr. Grundy was christened. : TUESDAY
110
Front: Comb. form. : ANTERO
112
Beneficiary of action: Rare. : USEE
113
Flower. : ASTER
115
Member of the firm: Abbr. : BRO
116
Scoreboard items. : GOOSEEGGS
118
Little men with big ideas. : COCKALORUMS
121
Italian town. : ATRI
122
Breakwater. : MOLE
123
Little Miss Muffet. : EATER
124
House sign. : TOLET
125
Stingarees. : RAYS
126
States. : SAYS
127
Smokers. : STAGS
128
Fills up with sand. : SILTS
Down
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Old Kentucky home. : CABIN
2
Scurrility. : ABUSE
3
Performs a feat of derring-do. : BELLSTHECAT
4
Nothing but. : ALL
5
Went down. : LESSENED
6
Artistic invention. : DESIGN
7
Irritate. : RASP
8
Without change. : ASIS
9
Member of Punjab caste. : MEO
10
Former Governor in Atlanta. : ARNALL
11
Capital city. : ALBANY
12
A struggle. : BOUT
13
Danube port. : ULM
14
She sings "Vissi d'Arte." : TOSCA
15
Girl's name. : EMELINE
16
Suspect something. : SMELLARAT
17
Wheel tread. : TIRE
18
Listen! : HIST
24
English composer. : ELGAR
26
Wine casks. : TUNS
30
Chinese Red. : MAO
33
Complexion: Fr. : TEINT
34
Perennial college song. : ALMAMATER
37
Too sad. : TRAGIC
39
God: Span. : DIOS
40
A concession to pacify. : SOP
42
Cattle: Poet. : KINE
43
Oklahoma city. : ENID
44
One of Santa's team. : CUPID
45
Armadillo. : APARA
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Constellation. : ARA
49
Esteems. : REPUTES
52
Advanced. : FAR
53
A long time. : DOGSAGE
54
Mythical queen of Sparta. : LEDA
55
See 116 Across. : ZEROS
58
Part. : SEGMENT
59
Curbed. : REPRESSED
61
Dickens creation. : TIM
63
Midnight feed. : SNACK
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G. and S. heroine. : IDA
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Denizens of Gibraltar. : APES
70
Going down. : WANING
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First cousin of 82 Down. : COCKANDBULL
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Of the ear. : AURAL
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Lock or curl. : TRESS
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Line on a map: Abbr. : RTE
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With 94 Across, an Italian port. : REMO
81
Heroic story. : EPIC
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Incredible yarn. : FISHSTORY
83
Fluctuate. : SWAY
84
King of Judah. : ASA
85
Staff men. : AIDES
88
Sun or moon. : ORB
90
French philosopher and family. : DIDEROTS
92
Planned progress. : TELESIS
95
"The ___ Sea." : CRUEL
97
Order of steak. : RARE
99
"Come ___ and lads ... " : LASSES
100
Relative of dander. : IRE
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Uncle's favorites. : NIECES
103
Fragrant oils. : ATTARS
105
Beautiful compositions. : POEMS
108
Hinged helmet. : ARMET
109
Football coach and family. : YOSTS
110
Substance from Ceylon moss. : AGAR
111
Part of N. B. : NOTA
112
Unsightly. : UGLY
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Deeds: Latin. : ACTA
114
Part of a ship's keel. : SKEG
117
Asian gazelle. : GOA
119
Item in a feedbag. : OAT
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Vive le ___! : ROI

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 13 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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