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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

New York Times, Friday, December 15, 1950

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 18, Grid flow: 31.9 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1950, The New York TimesNo. 544
Across
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Kingdom east of Palestine. : JORDAN
7
He ate his Christmas pie. : HORNER
13
President of Indonesia. : SUKARNO
14
Pointed at random. : UNAIMED
16
Junction. : UNITION
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View with contempt. : DESPISE
18
Storage chamber. : BIN
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Fence pickets. : PALES
21
Premier of Indonesia. : HATTA
22
Poison tree of Java. : UPAS
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Ernest Thompson ___, "Wild Animals I Have Known." : SETON
26
Budge. : STIR
27
Recovered. : REWON
29
Thief: Yiddish. : GONOF
31
First lady. : EVE
32
Worker of the R. R. Brotherhood. : BRAKEMAN
34
More radical. : REDDER
36
Jewel of a name. : OPAL
37
Cradle of civilization. : ASIA
38
Type of man's sleeve. : RAGLAN
41
Constitutional reformers. : AMENDERS
45
Put into service. : USE
46
Displacer of Mr. Bowles in Connecticut. : LODGE
48
Hindu of southern India. : TAMIL
49
Hector McNeil, for instance. : SCOT
51
Things into words. : NOUNS
53
Spear-carrier in the opera: Slang. : SUPE
54
Antibody. : SERUM
56
Under: Poetic. : NEATH
58
___ Simonson theatrical designer. : LEE
59
Developed inward. : INGROWN
61
Belgian province containing Brussels. : BRABANT
63
Standing as tall as possible. : ATIPTOE
64
Ties surgically. : LIGATES
65
In a cummerbund. : SASHED
66
March 25, 1951. : EASTER
Down
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Evergreen tree. : JUNIPER
2
Scene of history's greatest sea-land-air combat, 1945. : OKINAWA
3
Corner fighter. : RAT
4
Coffee method. : DRIP
5
Wild oxen of Celebes. : ANOAS
6
Not concerned with law. : NONLEGAL
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The American Rhine. : HUDSON
8
Sole. : ONE
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Symptom of the measles. : RASH
10
Palms used for thatching. : NIPAS
11
Let out. : EMITTED
12
Uneasy. : RESTIVE
13
Commuters' town. : SUBURB
15
More precious. : DEARER
20
Historic English school. : ETON
23
Czech gymnastic event. : SOKOL
25
Norwegian. : NORSE
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Country ruled by a 3-year-old. : NEPAL
30
Diversionary move. : FEINT
33
___ Lescaut, opera heroine. : MANON
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Infant's first syllables. : DADAS
37
Tractable. : AMENABLE
38
Interested observer in Asia. : RUSSIA
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Trips to the top. : ASCENTS
40
Gov. Talmadge's state. : GEORGIA
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Shaking fit. : AGUE
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Take as a model. : EMULATE
43
Maturing agent. : RIPENER
44
Rains icily. : SLEETS
47
Put on. : DONNED
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Paint remover: Colloq. : TURPS
52
Groove. : STRIA
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Wool menace. : MOTH
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Women, in Navy slang. : HAGS
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Trouble. : WOE
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Ball club. : BAT

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 16 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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