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Victor Goldfarb
Victor Goldfarb

New York Times, Thursday, March 19, 1953

6-Down : Personification of good, in a novel and play.

Author:
Victor Goldfarb
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.68, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 312 (avg 1.67)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 16.4
Victor Goldfarb has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,369
Across
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Kind of Semitism behind the Iron Curtain. : ANTI
5
Greek units of weight, 0.1 gram. : OBOLI
10
A branch of our armed forces. : USCG
14
Major Eisenhower. : JOHN
15
Up. : RISEN
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Ibsen girl. : NORA
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Kind of Giant fan Tallulah is. : AVID
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Actress Raines and others. : ELLAS
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Part of a sneeze. : CHOO
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Hindu queen. : RANEE
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Kind of generation of the Twenties. : LOST
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A loud scornful laugh. : HOWL
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Kind of picture. : XRAY
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Historic place in Ireland. : TARA
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Exhaust. : FAG
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Uses a washboard. : RUBS
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Sword or city. : TOLEDO
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Reveals: Poet. : OPES
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Organization for hooded hoodlums. : KUKLUXKLAN
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Word to go with "raves." : RANTS
43
Its highest number is a six. : DIE
44
"Allegeroo" and "sis-boom-bah." : YELLS
45
He walked a mile. : CROOKEDMAN
48
Take it out. : DELE
49
Star in Draconis. : ETAMIN
50
Graf ___, scuttled ship. : SPEE
52
Kind of earnings. : NET
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Furniture designer James or Robert. : ADAM
55
The sun in the "sunnyside up." : YOLK
57
Coalition of factions or legislators. : BLOC
60
Officer in the merchant marine. : MATE
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Penalized. : FINED
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Containing fattening ingredients. : RICH
67
Heroines of 1816 and 1856. : EMMAS
69
River through Leningrad. : NEVA
70
Concerning. : INRE
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Tall story tellers. : LIARS
72
Highlander. : GAEL
73
Tools and equipment on a ship. : GEAR
74
Intuition is the sixth. : SENSE
75
Agile. : SPRY
Down
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When a door is not a door. : AJAR
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Louis KO'ed him in 1941. : NOVA
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Easily seen through. : THIN
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Finger. : INDEX
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Cinnabar or galena. : ORE
6
Personification of good, in a novel and play. : BILLYBUDD
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Port on an inlet of the Skagerrak. : OSLO
8
Slightest. : LEAST
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___ quo (in the same condition): Lat. : INSTATU
10
Describing a clean blackboard. : UNCHALKED
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Where to eat in London. : SOHO
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Boast. : CROW
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Reading or Dartmoor. : GAOL
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"To ___ is human." : ERR
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Diving bird. : AUK
27
Nickname of late Broadway showman. : ROXY
28
Police or Air. : FORCE
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Independent. : APART
30
Gulf of the Liguarian Sea. : GENOA
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Glides lightly over. : SKIMS
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Correspondent of G. B. S. : ELLEN
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Decorative paving slab. : DALLE
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Attack. : ONSET
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Article of dress worn by Good Queen Bess. : STOMACHER
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Thirteen since 1900. : LEAPYEARS
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Motorist's hazard. : SKID
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Paints. : ENAMELS
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Recent: Comb. form. : NEO
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Distant relative of a gremlin. : ELF
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One of the ten best-dressed women. : MAMIE
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Amahl's "night visitors." : KINGS
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Two-masted vessel, square-rigged. : BRIG
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Towing rope. : LINE
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Soup ingredient. : OCRA
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Government agent. : TMAN
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Kind of tide. : NEAP
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By any chance. : EVER
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Famous name in the theatre. : DALY
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Compass point. : SSE

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

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