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Willard N. Jordan
Willard N. Jordan

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New York Times, Sunday, October 18, 1942

8-Down : Cane or beet sugar.

Author:
Willard N. Jordan
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 172, Blocks: 75, Avg Word Len: 5.28, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 663 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 152, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 117, Grid flow: 40.7
Willard N. Jordan has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Original 104-Down clue had "down"; changed to "Down."

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© 1942, The New York TimesNo. 36
Across
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Our fighting sea dogs. : MARINES
8
Islands being retaken by Allied forces. : SOLOMON
15
Guadalcanal, New Britain and Florida. : ISLANDS
22
The Cotton State. : ALABAMA
23
Friendly South American country. : URUGUAY
24
Whorl-leaved European pot herb. : MAYWORT
25
Scalelike or flaky. : LAMINAR
26
Pianolike musical instrument. : CELESTA
27
U. S. Navy's newest torpedo bomber. : AVENGER
28
Prehistoric shaping cores. : AMES
29
One of the roads that led to Rome. : ITER
31
Light-Horse Harry. : LEE
32
Kind of rebec of India. : SAROD
34
American humorist. : ADE
35
Kind: comb. form : GEN
36
Spherical. : GLOBOSE
38
Bettor. : STAKER
40
Russian girl's name. : OLGA
41
Letter of the alphabet. : AITCH
43
Prayer beads. : ROSARY
45
Dismounted. : ALIT
46
16th century card game. : GLEEK
47
Layer of entrapping devices. : SNARER
49
Beak of a tortoise. : NEB
50
Turkish drink of fermented milk. : AIRAN
52
Like long unbound hair. : TRESSY
53
Axis country. : ITALY
55
The British lion's den. : LONDON
57
Malaysian gentleman's title. : TUAN
58
Mystic trance. : AMENTIA
61
Having a conspicuous nose. : BEAKY
62
Celebrated Tokyo bomber. : DOOLITTLE
67
Legal right to hold early English court : SOC
68
More unusual : ODDER
70
"To thine own ___ be true."—Hamlet. : SELF
72
Arabian State and gulf. : OMAN
73
Melt. : RUN
74
Puts into alignment. : TRUES
76
Driven away from home. : EXILED
78
Malay gibbon. : LAR
80
Revolving. : GYRING
82
Military opposite of van. : REAR
83
Turkish decrees. : IRADES
84
The Spanish jasmine of India. : MALATI
86
Three-banded armadillo. : APAR
87
A version of the Book of Ezra. : ESDRAS
89
Soldiers, sailors and Marines. : MEN
90
Imaginative comparison. : SIMILE
91
Odd job. : CHORE
92
Negro tribe in the Cameroons. : ABO
93
Pintail duck. : SMEE
95
Victim of first fratricide. : ABEL
97
Clothes drying frame. : AIRER
99
DNB report. : LIE
100
Toadeaters. : MYRMIDONS
103
Native Japs. : AINUS
105
Lizardlike reptile. : SAURIAN
107
Ram-headed deity of Egypt. : AMON
108
Nazi armor. : PANZER
110
Plaster of paris. : GESSO
111
Islamite. : MOSLEM
114
Mourning song. : DIRGE
115
"O Sleep, thou ___ of death."—Shakespeare. : APE
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Typical blond Finn. : TAVAST
121
Of the planet Mars. : AREAN
122
Foreshow. : BODE
123
Hung, as telephone wire. : STRUNG
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Unit of Dutch East Indies measure. : DEPOH
127
Rattanlike. : CANY
128
Malay dagger with serpentine blade. : CREESE
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Backtrack. : RETRACE
132
"Flowers of all ___."—Milton. : HUE
133
Lunched. : ATE
134
To gather skirts by parallel runnings. : SHIRR
135
Medieval type of lyric poem. : LAI
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British Foreign Minister's nickname. : TONY
138
Rabbitlike South American rodent. : PACA
139
Intolerant. : BIGOTED
141
"Dadou sumpathickny Amerikanets." : WILLKIE
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Aridity. : DROUGHT
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Loud sound. : ROARING
147
Religious recluse. : EREMITE
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Precipitator. : HURRIER
149
Amplify or exaggerate. : ENLARGE
150
Holy Indian city. : BENARES
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Sequester. : ISOLATE
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White grapes. : MALAGAS
2
Position of Egyptian battlefront. : ALAMEIN
3
Minute particles. : RAMENTA
4
Sacred Egyptian wading bird. : IBIS
5
Dwarf: comb. form. : NAN
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Color bleu Louise. : EMAIL
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Tailor. : SARTOR
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Cane or beet sugar. : SUCROSE
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Basic source of priority metal. : ORE
10
Soothing agent. : LULLER
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Pointed arch. : OGEE
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Goddesses of poetry. : MUSES
13
Crude reed pipe. : OAT
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British protectorate in Southwest Africa. : NYASALAND
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Turkish inn. : IMARET
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Taste and odor. : SAVOR
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Treated with lixivium. : LYED
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Barley bristle. : AWN
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Town in Arizona. : NOGALES
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Excavators. : DREDGES
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Variable or mixed. : STREAKY
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Prized tropical wood. : EBONY
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"A joy ___ to rapture."—Cowper. : AKIN
36
Restricted quarters. : GHETTOS
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Valuable furbearer. : SABLE
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Cocoroot. : TARO
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Fragrant. : OLENT
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Kind of heavy silk. : CRIN
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Pulled strongly. : YANKED
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Abounding in cereal grass. : GRAINY
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Commando-Ranger excursion. : RAID
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Pastoral poem. : IDYL
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Vital Allied base in Solomons. : TULAGI
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Stevedore. : LADER
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Filling stations for camels. : OASES
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Tailor who looked at Godiva. : TOM
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In line with the current. : ASTREAM
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Port, Allied base on Papuan coast. : MORESBY
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Good neighbor. : ECUADOR
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Newly espoused woman. : BRIDE
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An arrow poison. : OORALI
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Oil city at terminus of Syrian pipe line. : TRIPOLI
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The satinpod. : LUNARIA
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To make verdant. : ENGREEN
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Investigation. : EXAMEN
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An illusory pretext. : FLAM
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"Do they not ___ that devise evil?"—Proverbs. : ERR
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3,000-mile river to Nordenskjold Sea. : LENA
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What Hitler is to Schickelgruber. : ALIAS
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Short gridiron cheer. : RAH
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The realm of unsound doctrine. : ISMDOM
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New Guinea Bay taken by Allies. : MILNE
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Unverbose. : TERSE
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Bananalike fruit. : ASIMEN
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Takes by force. : SEIZES
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Zealous drive against evil. : CRUSADE
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Geological time division. : EON
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Explosive sound. : BANG
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One of the theatres of war. : EAST
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States formerly under British protection. : MALAY
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Cover with network of fine lines. : SPIDERWEB
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Another name for 63 Down. : URARE
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Stroll. : ROVE
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Aphrodite's lover. : ARES
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The elder statesmen of Japan. : GENRO
111
Gruesome. : MACABRE
112
Anniversary speech. : ORATION
113
River in Western Africa, 1,050 miles to Atlantic. : SENEGAL
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Worker. : DOER
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Military leggings. : PUTTEES
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Inability to swallow. : APHAGIA
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Dish of small stewed fish. : SOUCHET
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Playhouse. : THEATRE
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Military pontoon structure. : BRIDGE
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Candlestick used by bishops. : TRIKIR
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Indian leader. : GANDHI
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Chinese reed instrument. : CHENG
129
Cloth measures. : ELLEN
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King of Persia, 529 B. C. : CYRUS
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"___ not questions of jurisdiction."—Bacon. : STIR
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Crimean river. : ALMA
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Backstitch. : PURL
140
Mouths. : ORA
142
Choler. : IRE
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Suffix denoting adherent of. : ITE
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Spanish gold. : ORO

Answer summary:
17 unique to this puzzle, 100 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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