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Herbert Ettenson
Herbert Ettenson

New York Times, Saturday, November 24, 1956

Author:
Herbert Ettenson
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13, Grid flow: 41.4
Herbert Ettenson has 87 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1956, The New York TimesNo. 2,706
Across
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Sandaled. : SHOD
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Greek letters. : CHIS
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Movie dog. : ASTA
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Branch of a legislature. : LOWERHOUSE
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Rain check. : STUB
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Alias Rosalind Russell. : AUNTIEMAME
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He said, "Delenda est Carthago." : CATO
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Depression scenes. : BREADLINES
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Caesar said it. : ETTU
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African title. : SIDI
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Language: Abbr. : ENG
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Pitch of voice. : TONE
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John Masefield heroine. : NAN
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Pendulum's motion. : TOANDFRO
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Dutch painter. : STEEN
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Saltpeter. : NITRE
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Diving bird. : AUK
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Singer Munsel. : PATRICE
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Catherine I. : TSARINA
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Epoch. : ERA
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___ jet engine. : TURBO
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Behind time. : TARDY
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Decisive defeat. : WATERLOO
46
Crone. : HAG
47
Cigarfish. : SCAD
48
Mr. Burrows. : ABE
50
"Come ___, my melancholy baby." : TOME
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Closed. : SHUT
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TV headliner. : EDSULLIVAN
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Child's counting word. : EENY
60
Village. : SETTLEMENT
61
Jaunt. : TRIP
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Wind gauge. : ANEMOMETER
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Argyles. : HOSE
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Grant. : CEDE
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Proportion. : RATE
Down
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Chunks. : SLABS
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Mohammedan nymph. : HOURI
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Held. : OWNED
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Writ for continued custody. : DETAINER
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"___ through the Rye." : COMIN
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Legendary emperor of China. : HUANGTI
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Woe ___! : ISME
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What comic characters do, after being crowned. : SEESTARS
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Go up. : ASCEND
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Rodgers & Hammerstein movie. : STATEFAIR
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Arthur Train's Ephraim. : TUTT
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"May his tribe increase." : ABOU
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Clear. : RID
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Legendary beauty. : HELEN
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___ time. : ONEATA
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"Peer Gynt" character. : ANITRA
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Librettist Harbach. : OTTO
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Round: Ger. : RUND
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Endorse, colloquially. : OKAY
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Eject. : SPEW
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Scene in "Gone With the Wind." : TARA
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U. S. in France. : ETATSUNIS
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Detective Wolfe. : NERO
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Blind alley. : CULDESAC
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Ancestor of a bopster. : RAGTIMER
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Crowed. : BOASTED
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Copy of an artist's original. : ECTYPE
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Exclamation of surprise. : HELLO
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"––– no buts." : BUTME
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Mrs. Hobby. : OVETA
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French painter. : MANET
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___ nous (in confidence). : ENTRE
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Son of Adam. : SETH
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"My ___," Oscar Straus song. : HERO
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Sand hill in England. : DENE
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Gulliver's nickname. : LEM

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 11 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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