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Elizabeth Laing
Elizabeth Laing

New York Times, Tuesday, March 27, 1956

Author:
Elizabeth Laing
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10, Grid flow: 33.4
Elizabeth Laing has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1956, The New York TimesNo. 2,464
Across
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Where a ball club sends recruits. : FARM
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Scraped together. : RAKED
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Symbol of victory. : PALM
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Butterine. : OLEO
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Boredom. : ENNUI
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South Sea port. : APIA
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Erede, Walter, and others. : CONDUCTORS
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Made at random. : SPOT
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Swedish explorer. : HEDIN
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Performer. : EXECUTANT
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Sizzle. : SISS
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Douglas ___. : FIR
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Chessman. : BISHOP
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Cheops built the largest one. : PYRAMID
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Burmese Premier. : UNU
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Jim Fitzsimmons trains him. : NASHUA
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Harrow's rival. : ETON
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Clusters of wool fibers. : NEPS
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Litter or palanquin of East Indies. : DOOLI
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Without: Lat. : SINE
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Scope. : AREA
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Actor Truex. : ERNEST
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"___ tree by a river ... " : ONA
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Major Adriatic port. : TRIESTE
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Type of seine. : EELNET
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155. : CLV
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Spruce. : TREE
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Debussy opus. : ARABESQUE
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Nape of the neck. : NUCHA
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Arena animal: Span. : TORO
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Dance of the early twenties. : TURKEYTROT
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Actress Petrova. : OLGA
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Display stand. : EASEL
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Gusto. : ZEST
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Intrigue. : PLOT
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Small change in Abadan. : RIALS
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Sheep. : EWES
Down
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Ferdinand of France. : FOCH
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Lily plant. : ALOE
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Tear apart. : REND
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Fashionable. : MODISH
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Best performance: Abbr. : REC
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Feeds the kitty. : ANTES
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Secretary of the Navy, 1940–44. : KNOX
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Department of France. : EURE
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Recording. : DISC
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Golf and bridge, for example. : PASTIMES
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"Blithe Spirit." : APPARITION
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Celebrity. : LION
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New Testament book: Abbr. : MATT
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Chicago's R. R. station. : UNION
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City in Russia. : UFA
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Card suit. : SPADES
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Synthetic rubber. : BUNA
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Slow. : INERT
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Merchant ship officer. : SUPERCARGO
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Speech sound. : PHONE
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December time. : YULE
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Optimistic poker player. : RAISER
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English poet and preacher. : DONNE
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Of a ___ (of inferior kind). : SORT
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Dapper. : NEAT
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Lugger. : SAILBOAT
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Tiny. : TEENY
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"Our Miss Brooks." : EVE
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Painter of "Washington Crossing the Delaware." : LEUTZE
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Mene, mene, ___, upharsin. : TEKEL
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Above. : ATOP
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Bakery product. : ROLL
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Made of silver: Abbr. : STER
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___ d'Orsay, French Foreign Office. : QUAI
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Constellation animal. : URSA
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Oarsmen. : CREW
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Nylons. : HOSE
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Lawyers: Abbr. : ATTS
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Letters. : ELS

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

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