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Alice Skodzus
Alice Skodzus

New York Times, Friday, November 2, 1956

Author:
Alice Skodzus
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 288 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 25.8
Alice Skodzus has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1956, The New York TimesNo. 2,684
Across
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Ben ___ Williams. : AMES
5
Jabberwockian noun. : WABE
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In the same degree. : ALIKE
14
Starling's Asiatic relative. : MYNA
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Colors. : HUES
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Color. : CORAL
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Elizabeth and Robert. : BROWNINGS
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Tropical American animal. : COATI
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Business abbreviation. : INC
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___ von Bismarck. : OTTO
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Rumples. : MUSSES
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Gauguin's retreat. : TAHITI
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Demonstrative pronoun. : THOSE
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Bell sound. : TING
29
First games of a season. : OPENERS
33
A certain storekeeper. : GREENGROCER
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___ score. : TIE
38
Campanella and others. : ROYS
39
Request. : ASK
40
Home of the Bruins. : UCLA
41
Verbal contraction. : IVE
42
Shutouts, in various games. : WHITEWASHES
46
Melon or cat. : PERSIAN
48
Ivy League contender. : YALE
49
Light refractor. : PRISM
51
Republic established 1948. : ISRAEL
55
More zestful. : RACIER
58
Miss Kett of the comics. : ETTA
60
Pair of performers. : DUO
61
To the left: Naut. : APORT
62
Far from ideal husband. : BLUEBEARD
64
Valley of Argolis. : NEMEA
65
Construction beam. : IBAR
66
Complacent. : SMUG
67
Understand. : GRASP
68
Processes leather. : TANS
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To be: Lat. : ESSE
Down
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A circuit. : AMBIT
2
Actress Loy. : MYRNA
3
Methuselah's father. : ENOCH
4
Tool. : SAW
5
Weakfish. : WHITING
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Charley's impersonation. : AUNT
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Sired. : BEGOT
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Sigma. : ESS
9
Plaintiff's role. : ACCUSER
10
Free. : LOOSEN
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Cleopatra's maid. : IRAS
12
Bianca's sister. : KATE
13
Yalies. : ELIS
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Out. : NOTIN
22
Be apathetic. : MOPE
24
Natives of: Suffix. : ITES
26
Winter sport. : HOCKEY
28
Tiny bits. : GRAINS
30
Design on metal. : ETCH
31
Get one's dander up. : RILE
32
High ___. : SEAS
33
Take hold upon. : GRIP
34
Wander over. : ROVE
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Observer. : EYER
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East: Ger. : OST
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Member of the Suez group. : USER
42
Controversial source of evidence. : WIRETAP
43
Very small degree. : HAIR
44
Major-domo's aides. : WAITERS
45
1942 Preakness winner. : ALSAB
47
Steeples. : SPIRES
50
Peach ___. : MELBA
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Peak of the Presidential Range. : ADAMS
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Southeast wind. : EURUS
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U. N. delegate since 1953. : LODGE
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Pealed. : RANG
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Mimic. : APER
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Cloudlike mass at a comet's head. : COMA
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Malaysian "sir." : TUAN
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A short time: Colloq. : BIT
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Common suffix. : ESE

Answer summary:
3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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