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Thomas Meekin
Thomas Meekin

New York Times, Friday, December 18, 1953

57-Across : Initiates.

Author:
Thomas Meekin
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.53, Missing: { J K Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 3, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
Thomas Meekin has 202 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,634
Across
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Laniel's headquarters. : PARIS
6
Time to visit 1 Across. : APRIL
11
Popular sandwich cut. : SALAMI
12
Writer Asch. : SHOLEM
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Frau Krupp's namesakes. : BERTHAS
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St. Louis is its capital. : SENEGAL
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Toward the center. : INTO
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Balm of ___, a balsam fir. : GILEAD
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Political group. : ADA
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A street with houses on both sides. : ROW
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Smokes: Var. : SEGARS
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Smoker. : STAG
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Coarse cotton cloth. : CRASH
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Out. : NOTATHOME
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Vehicle for a festive ride. : HAYWAGON
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More intimate. : NEARER
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Fragrance. : ODOR
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Kindergarten award. : STAR
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Jittery. : SCARED
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Internal combustion engine. : GASMOTOR
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Comelier. : HANDSOMER
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Lake in Lapland. : ENARE
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Cash register totals: Abbr. : AMTS
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Spurious. : FORGED
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Mrs. E. Cantor. : IDA
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Book of the Old Testament: Abbr. : NEH
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Beasts of burden. : LLAMAS
49
Coasting vehicle. : SLED
50
Slurring over of a vowel. : ELISION
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Parts of dynamos. : STATORS
54
Wind cone used in aviation. : SLEEVE
55
Indian cavalrymen. : SOWARS
56
Bailed, as water. : LADED
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Initiates. : OPENS
Down
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Not the whole distance. : PARTWAY
2
Member of a quartet. : ALTO
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Part of a cheer. : RAH
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Perfect likeness. : IMAGE
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Polite assent in Italy. : SISIGNOR
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Affirm. : ASSERT
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Brilliantly colored wild birds. : PHEASANTS
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___ de serviette (napkin ring): Fr. : ROND
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___ de France. : ILE
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Testator. : LEGATOR
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Doña's relative. : SENORA
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Title of General Assembly President. : MADAME
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Hard, close-grained wood. : BIRCH
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Beer. : LAGER
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City in France. : LAON
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Second word of Longfellow's "Excelsior." : SHADES
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City in Pennsylvania. : SHARON
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Sidney Howard's first play. : SWORDS
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Paired. : TEAMED
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Valentine motif. : GODOFLOVE
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Floating brown seaweed. : SARGASSO
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Horse-opera in color. : SHANE
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Bactrians. : CAMELS
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Eating place for aardvarks. : ANTHILL
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Origin of an idea. : GERM
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United Garment Workers. : TAILORS
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Grocery store deliveries. : ORDERS
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Spells out. : READS
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Soughed hollowly. : MOANED
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Bar legally. : ESTOP
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German lyric. : LIED
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Baseball's Musial. : STAN
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See 32 Down. : SEA
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Reverence, fear and wonder. : AWE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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