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Mel Taub
Mel Taub

New York Times, Tuesday, December 27, 1955

Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 32.7
Mel Taub has 44 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 10 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,373
Across
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Military group: Abbr. : ROTC
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Low shoes. : PUMPS
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At ___ (quarreling). : ODDS
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Above: German. : UBER
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Rhee or Nehru. : ASIAN
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Air. : ARIA
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___ purpose (with little effect). : TONO
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French drama, "La ___." : RONDE
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Abound. : TEEM
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Hector's mother. : HECUBA
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Imagines: Colloq. : DREAMSUP
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Sioux Indian. : OSAGE
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Rapacious birds. : ERNES
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Vault device. : TIMELOCK
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Commencements. : STARTS
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Place for a brassard. : ARM
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Business phrase. : INRE
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Attentive. : ALERT
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Drop. : BEAD
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Shrub used in dying. : SUMAC
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O. W. Holmes' "chaise." : SHAY
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Boleyn and others. : ANNES
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Malayan canoe. : PROA
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One: German. : EIN
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Helper for Fleck. : CADDIE
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Outward indication of a secret. : TELLTALE
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One thousandth part of: Comb. form. : MILLI
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Snake. : ADDER
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Shut out. : PRECLUDE
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Menotti opera (with "The"). : CONSUL
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Hebrides isle. : IONA
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Girl in "A Gift of the Magi." : DELLA
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Way. : LANE
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Singer Eartha. : KITT
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Lightens. : EASES
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Symbolic island. : ELBA
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Different. : ELSE
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Drastic cut. : SLASH
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Nieuport's river. : YSER
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Book of the Bible. : RUTH
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Hautboy. : OBOE
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Forthcoming De Mille spectacle (with "The"). : TENCOMMANDMENTS
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America playwright. : CROUSE
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Models of perfection. : PARAGONS
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Servicemen's group. : USO
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Look after. : MIND
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Chaplain. : PADRE
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Manifests contempt. : SNEERS
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Breakfast foods. : OATMEALS
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Theatrical ordeals. : DRESSREHEARSALS
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___ vous garde. : DIEU
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Coarsely ground corn. : SAMP
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Island south of Borneo. : BALI
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Theatrical group. : ANTA
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Light color. : ECRU
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Ingredient of a cigare. : TABAC
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Poetic queen of Ireland. : IRENA
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Combed: now used only with un-. : KEMPT
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Spoor. : TRAIL
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Composer Jule. : STYNE
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Set apart for a special purpose. : DEDICATE
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Zone. : AREA
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A form of dough. : COLDCASH
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Threshold. : SILL
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Actor Ray. : ALDO
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Baffles. : ELUDES
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Skating star Albright. : TENLEY
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Perfect. : IDEAL
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Spear of yore. : PIKE
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Displease. : ROIL
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Wagner heroine. : ELSA
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Lack being. : UNBE
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Cordelia's father. : LEAR
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Guitarist Paul. : LES

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

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