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Louise Rabb
Louise Rabb

New York Times, Thursday, January 14, 1954

12-Down : Shelter or dugout: French.

Author:
Louise Rabb
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F J Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Louise Rabb has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,661
Across
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Centers of certain systems. : SUNS
5
Users of prayer wheels. : LAMAS
10
Winner of 3 Down in 1925. : SHAW
14
Enough: Poetic. : ENOW
15
Suppose: Humorous. : OPINE
16
Major port of Honshu. : KOBE
17
Brass-wind instrument. : TUBA
18
Art gallery in Florence. : PITTI
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Concerning. : INRE
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Fish dish. : SMELTS
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1921 Nobel prize winner. : EINSTEIN
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1930 prize winner. : LEWIS
26
Spanish muralist. : SERT
27
On deck. : TOPSIDE
29
Old-time sentimental novel by Augusta Jane Evans. : STELMO
33
Make a mistake. : ERR
34
Molars, bicuspids, etc. : TEETH
37
Maurois' biography of Shelley. : ARIEL
38
Shield. : EGIS
40
Emulate Peter Ibbetson. : DREAM
42
"The ___ at eve ... " : STAG
43
Members of the Third Reich. : NAZIS
45
Glacial phenomenon. : SERAC
47
Girl's name. : EDA
48
Fisherman's lines. : SNELLS
50
Forward course: French. : PROGRES
52
Animal's hideaway. : LAIR
54
Port of Rome. : OSTIA
55
Instruments like xylophones. : MARIMBAS
59
Half of a "hurried and confused" word. : HELTER
62
Man's nickname. : ABIE
63
Thomas Mann's daughter. : ERIKA
65
City fellow, in the West. : DUDE
66
Author known for 1925 book. : LOOS
67
Make merry. : REVEL
68
Opera star Berger. : ERNA
69
Famous fictional lawyer. : TUTT
70
Large baglike fishing net. : TRAWL
71
Business event. : DEAL
Down
1
Figures in a square dance. : SETS
2
E pluribus ___. : UNUM
3
Headline event in Stockholm or Oslo. : NOBELPRIZE
4
Hollows in wet, marshy ground. : SWALES
5
Not symmetrical. : LOPSIDED
6
High mountain in the Himalayas, 23,400 ft. : API
7
Small creature. : MITE
8
They vote no. : ANTIS
9
Relatives of 70 Across. : SEINES
10
Moves along quickly. : SKITTERS
11
Sharpen. : HONE
12
Shelter or dugout: French. : ABRI
13
Suppose: Archaic. : WEEN
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Upbraid. : TWIT
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Senhorita: Abbr. : SRTA
25
They know the future. : SEERS
27
Bobby soxer's years. : TEENS
28
Musical instrument. : ORGAN
30
Churchill's prize, 1953. : LITERATURE
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Winner at Gettysburg, 1863. : MEADE
32
Miss Nethersole and others. : OLGAS
35
Where a foursome foregathers. : TEE
36
Arthur Marx. : HARPO
39
Most foolish. : SILLIEST
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1953 prize winner. : MARSHALL
44
Not a compliment. : SLAM
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Shelter for birds. : COTE
49
Willa Cather's middle name. : SIBERT
51
Tinged with gold. : GILDED
53
Of thinner texture. : RARER
55
Ingredient of ale. : MALT
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Eastern name. : ABOU
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Relative of 67 Across. : RIOT
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Hindu deity with four arms. : SIVA
60
Actress Best. : EDNA
61
What life is. : REAL
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Suburb of London with famous botanical garden. : KEW

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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