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A. J. Santora
A. J. Santora

New York Times, Saturday, December 29, 1962

59-Down : Pi's follower.

Author:
A. J. Santora
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.36, Missing: { G J V X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 47.7 Grid has duplicate clues.
A. J. Santora has 185 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 68 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,913
Across
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Banana's relative. : PAPAW
6
Army man: Abbr. : CAPT
10
Rodent akin to the agouti. : PACA
14
Mennonite. : AMISH
15
Essential oil. : OLEORESIN
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___ earth (track down). : RUNTO
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D. F. C.'s. : AIRMEDALS
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Wood preserver. : CREOSOTE
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Charlotte ___, Virgin Islands capital. : AMALIE
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Snare. : TRAP
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Snare. : NET
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Role for a tragedian. : LEAR
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Short ___ (quick work). : SHRIFT
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Informal negative. : NOPE
30
"They sailed away for ___ and a day ... " : AYEAR
31
Rising. : ASCENDANT
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Food fish. : IDE
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Slander. : ASPERSE
39
Crosscut. : SAW
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Showing no vestige of. : DESTITUTE
42
Extreme. : ULTRA
44
River into the Fulda. : EDER
45
Conceited smiles. : SMIRKS
46
Celebes ox. : ANOA
49
Ump's colleague. : REF
51
The "Crimson Tide," for short. : BAMA
52
Rich cakes. : TORTEN
54
Ocean phenomena. : LEETIDES
58
Housed. : QUARTERED
60
River into the Loire. : INDRE
61
Set free. : UNLEASHED
62
Lily. : CALLA
63
In ___. : ESSE
64
Reactionary. : TORY
65
Winter fallout. : SLEET
Down
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Public area in France. : PARC
2
Great river of Asia. : AMUR
3
The Maine woods. : PINETREES
4
City in Oregon. : ASTORIA
5
Part of a hit-play title. : WHOSAFRAID
6
Ulster. : COAT
7
Opposed (to). : ALIEN
8
Through. : PER
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Grocery item. : TOMATOES
10
Soft- ___ (toned down). : PEDALED
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At auction. : ASALE
12
Eyelashes. : CILIA
13
Goose genus. : ANSER
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Ad or in ___. : REM
20
Choose. : OPT
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Ink, in France. : ENCRE
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Already spoken of. : SAID
27
Stevenson character. : HYDE
29
Branch of physics. : PNEUMATICS
31
River into the Orinoco. : APURE
32
Headstrong. : SET
33
Mounted. : ASTRADDLE
34
Informer: Slang. : NARK
35
Poetic contraction. : TWAS
38
Most unrelenting. : STERNEST
41
Valuable plant of the Orient. : TEATREE
43
At the threshhold. : LIMINAL
45
Compass point. : SBE
46
And, in Latin. : ATQUE
47
Some words. : NOUNS
48
Some exams. : ORALS
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Mock. : FLEER
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Zeta's follower. : ETA
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Whirl. : EDDY
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A Gardner. : ERLE
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Subway problem. : SEAT
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Pi's follower. : RHO

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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