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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

New York Times, Thursday, November 29, 1956

36-Down : Stock cars.

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10, Grid flow: 29.1 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1956, The New York TimesNo. 2,711
Across
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News from abroad. : CABLE
6
Reputation. : NAME
10
Sprinkling, for flavor. : DASH
14
Metal combine. : ALLOY
15
Certain lily plant. : ALOE
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Desirable yodel effect. : ECHO
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Staggering the imagination. : STUPENDOUS
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___ Chapman, fashion designer. : CEIL
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Price of the party. : TAB
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Condescend. : DEIGN
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Carried. : BORNE
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Kin. : SIBS
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In vapid style. : TRITELY
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For one. : EACH
29
Sensible. : SANE
30
Where Jamaica is: Abbr. : BWI
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Sad song. : DIRGE
35
Not the real thing. : IMITATION
37
Gets one's bearings. : ORIENTS
39
Inscriber of music. : NOTATOR
40
Gigantic. : MONSTROUS
42
Give out. : EXUDE
43
New ___. : ENG
44
Sloping roadway. : RAMP
45
Demure. : PRIM
46
Actress Brown. : VANESSA
48
Chinese: Comb. form. : SINO
51
This goes with lox. : BAGEL
54
Macbeth, ___ of Cawdor. : THANE
56
Negative prefix. : NON
57
Verve. : ELAN
58
Shields. : PROTECTORS
60
An unsupported act. : SOLO
61
Give a job. : HIRE
62
Stir up. : ROUSE
63
Enjoyed the water. : SWAM
64
Topped off, as a cake. : ICED
65
Unexpected defeat. : UPSET
Down
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Flings. : CASTS
2
Range of Central Asia. : ALTAI
3
Weeping noisily. : BLUBBERING
4
Clip off. : LOP
5
Scanned. : EYED
6
Lowest point. : NADIR
7
Something contrary to logic. : ALOGISM
8
Geographical barriers. : MOUNTAINS
9
Engineering degrees. : EES
10
Wooden duck. : DECOY
11
Maple genus. : ACER
12
Part of the leg. : SHIN
13
Golf target. : HOLE
18
Country of Europe: Abbr. : NETH
22
Lost sheep. : BLEATER
24
Wise men. : SAGES
26
Within: Comb. form. : ENTO
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Telephone exchange. : CENTRAL
30
Describing soft coal. : BITUMINOUS
31
Walnut. : WOOD
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Concerning. : INRE
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Feature of the Capitol. : DOME
34
Feature of the Saar. : IRON
35
Measuring the same, as crystal sides. : ISOMETRIC
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Stock cars. : TAXIS
38
Across: Prefix. : TRAN
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Away from the beach. : UPSHORE
45
Transparent square. : PANE
46
Malice. : VENOM
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Too full. : SATED
49
Group of European languages. : NORSE
50
Attack. : ONSET
51
Catfish Row dweller. : BESS
52
Not aloft. : ALOW
53
Festive. : GALA
55
Light tan. : ECRU
58
Greek letter. : PHI
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Surmount. : TOP

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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