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S. A. Kay
S. A. Kay

New York Times, Wednesday, March 21, 1951

49-Down : Greek letter.

Author:
S. A. Kay
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9, Grid flow: 33.7
S. A. Kay has 118 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1951, The New York TimesNo. 640
Across
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Hoover, Shasta, etc. : DAMS
5
Nickname for Mrs. Zaharias, golf champion. : BABE
9
Old Black Joe's master. : MASSA
14
Skip. : OMIT
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Historic river. : AVON
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Moreover. : AGAIN
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Colonel ___ P. May, head of the Wafs. : GERALDINE
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Milkman's rounds. : ROUTE
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Entangle. : SNARE
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Resign. : DEMIT
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Where England's famous botanical gardens are. : KEW
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British medal for gallant seamen. : CGM
26
Eastern Aramaic dialect. : SYRIAC
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Mr. DiSalle. : MICHAEL
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Native of mountainous region. : ANDEAN
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Period. : ERA
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Pesky person. : TEASE
39
Bring to naught. : UNDO
40
Well-known defense worker. : ROSIETHERIVETER
44
Within. : INTO
45
Queen: Spanish. : REINA
46
Turmeric. : REA
47
Seesaw motion. : TEETER
50
Tammany chiefs. : SACHEMS
52
Neglect: Law. : LACHES
55
Lawyer's daughter. : SUE
56
Loki's daughter. : HEL
58
Swiss cheese adornments. : HOLES
60
Mountain crest. : ARETE
64
Farm land in southern U. S. : ARADO
66
Site of the world's largest telescope. : MTPALOMAR
68
Open a package. : UNTIE
69
British prep school. : ETON
70
Small troublemakers. : IMPS
71
Yorkshire city, center of British cloth industry. : LEEDS
72
List of names. : ROTA
73
Junior Senator from South Dakota. : CASE
Down
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Boxers, borzois, etc. : DOGS
2
Word of assent. : AMEN
3
Star in Constellation Cetus. : MIRA
4
Strength and activity: Slang. : STARCH
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Worthless. : BAD
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Keenly eager. : AVID
7
Endman of a minstrel show. : BONES
8
"An ___ of the People." : ENEMY
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Mary who plays Nellie Forbush. : MARTIN
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In past time. : AGO
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Birthplace of Sinclair Lewis. : SAUKCENTRE
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Local position. : SITE
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Over again. : ANEW
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Papal ambassador. : LEGATE
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One of the Gershwins. : IRA
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Assembling of huntsmen. : MEET
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Together: Musical direction. : ADUE
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Order of ___. : MERIT
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Violet-scented ketone. : IRONE
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Build with battlements. : CASTELLATE
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Merrymaker Bert. : LAHR
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Revoke, as a legacy. : ADEEM
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Ibsen and Hammett heroines. : NORAS
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Meet and converse with. : SEE
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She threw the apple of discord. : ERIS
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Smallest letter of the Greek alphabet. : IOTA
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Girls named after Miss Claire. : INAS
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Pertaining to an empty space. : VACUAL
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Repeated words. : ECHOES
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Greek letter. : RHO
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Larger than life. : HEROIC
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Sinclair Lewis' Gantry. : ELMER
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Fight: Colloq. : SETTO
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Strong pull. : HAUL
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Sea bird. : ERNE
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What X marks. : SPOT
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Madame Bovary. : EMMA
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Bugle call. : TAPS
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Celtic. : ERSE
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Accomplished. : DID
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___ Pauker of Rumania. : ANA

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

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