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Louise Rabb
Louise Rabb

New York Times, Tuesday, June 23, 1959

12-Down : Nonpaying profession.

Author:
Louise Rabb
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 37.5
Louise Rabb has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,630
Across
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Heavy metal tools. : PICKS
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Old English bard. : SCOP
10
Agreement. : PACT
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A Barrymore. : ETHEL
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Fishing gear. : POLE
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City on the Jumna River. : AGRA
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Earth. : TERRA
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Sign, good or bad. : OMEN
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Fence part. : RAIL
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Magic words of childhood. : ONCEUPONATIME
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Theory. : ISM
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Downward: Prefix. : KATA
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Lowest cards in pinochle. : NINES
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Vagabond. : ROAMER
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Advertising notice. : SIGN
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Later. : AFTER
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Arms of the sea. : ESTUARIES
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Platform. : DAIS
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Farm enclosures. : STIES
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One of the seven deadly sins. : ENVY
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Type of stairway. : ESCALATOR
43
Affray. : MELEE
44
Asian gulf. : ADEN
45
Of certain trees: Poet. : CEDARN
46
Pundit. : SWAMI
50
"Like two peas in ___." : APOD
52
Britain's Bevan. : NYE
53
Cliff-hanging phrase for readers. : TOBECONTINUED
57
Bauxite and others. : ORES
58
Dickens character. : HEEP
59
Where the poop is. : STERN
62
Modern Persia. : IRAN
63
Voided escutcheon. : ORLE
64
First high priest of the Hebrews. : AARON
65
Flower cluster. : CYME
66
Hog callers' cries. : HOYS
67
Martha Finley's priggish heroine. : ELSIE
Down
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Especially liked. : PET
2
Citizen of: Suffix. : ITE
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Progressing by half tones. : CHROMATIC
4
Popular composer. : KERN
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Irresponsible one. : SLACKER
6
Part of a watering pot. : SPOUT
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With humane feeling. : COMPASSIONATELY
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Oil: Comb. form. : OLEO
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Founder of Keystone state. : PENN
10
First section. : PARTI
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Once more. : AGAIN
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Nonpaying profession. : CRIME
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"___ of the South Pacific." : TALES
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Fruiting spike. : EAR
22
Eugene O'Neill heroine. : ANNA
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Decree of a Mohammedan ruler. : IRADE
24
Love seats. : SOFAS
28
Western hill. : MESA
30
Roman road. : ITER
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Gloomy fellow. : GUS
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Diminutive suffix. : ETTE
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Part of a wind instrument. : REED
35
Midwesterners. : INLANDERS
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___ which way. : EVERY
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Town on the Nile, now Aswan. : SYENE
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Woeful. : SAD
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Secular. : LAIC
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Jellyfish, in zoology. : MEDUSAE
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In opposition. : CON
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Impassive one. : STOIC
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Fret. : WORRY
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At right angles to a ship's keel. : ABEAM
49
Middle: Law. : MESNE
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Water conveyors. : PIPES
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Double sound of surprise. : OHOH
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Adopted son of Claudius I. : NERO
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Common Latin abbreviation. : ETAL
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Reine's spouse. : ROI
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Compass point. : NNE

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

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