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Louise Rabb
Louise Rabb

New York Times, Wednesday, March 24, 1954

51-Across : "I'd like to spend ___ with you."

Author:
Louise Rabb
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13
Louise Rabb has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,730
Across
1
Agency controlling radio, TV, etc. : FCC
4
___ Hari. : MATA
8
Young game fish. : SAMLET
14
Pie ___ mode. : ALA
15
God of love. : EROS
16
French patois of Louisiana. : CREOLE
17
Napoleon's sister. : CAROLINE
19
George ___, old-time English actor. : ARLISS
20
Shyly. : TIMIDLY
21
Les mots ___, French crosswords. : CROISES
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Exams for Ph.D. degrees. : ORALS
23
Scatters about. : STREWS
25
A rule: Abbr. : REG
26
Hecuba's son. : PARIS
27
Low voice. : ALTO
31
Affidavit taker. : NOTARY
34
Relative of the lily. : ONION
35
Testing by experiment. : PROVING
37
Tosti's well-known song. : GOODBYE
39
One of the Dulleses. : ALLEN
40
German experimenter in hypnotism. : MESMER
41
Flanders river. : YSER
42
Open and shut affairs. : DOORS
44
And other things: Abbr. : ETC
47
Playing cards. : THREES
49
Paris subway. : METRO
51
"I'd like to spend ___ with you." : ONEHOUR
54
Encourage. : HEARTEN
56
Cuts. : SEVERS
57
Handling successfully, as an election. : SWINGING
58
English novelist. : STERNE
59
Affected manners. : AIRS
60
French saint: Abbr. : STE
61
Value. : ASSESS
62
Crook in a tree branch. : KNEE
63
What Hawaii is: Abbr. : TER
Down
1
Constituent. : FACTOR
2
Actress in "The Confidential Clerk." : CLAIRE
3
Song and dance of the French Revolution. : CARMAGNOLE
4
Canasta scores. : MELDS
5
Part of a plant. : ARIL
6
The marionette man. : TONYSARG
7
Ibsen character. : ASE
8
Frightens. : SCARES
9
One-way sign. : ARROW
10
Soprano role in Debussy opera. : MELISANDE
11
Actress Wilson. : LOIS
12
Other. : ELSE
13
Hardy girl. : TESS
18
Novel by Upton Sinclair, 1927. : OIL
21
Dernier ___. : CRI
24
Annoy. : TRY
26
Kitchen utensil. : PAN
28
Abe Burrows, for instance. : LIBRETTIST
29
Yo-yo. : TOY
30
Lunchtime. : ONE
32
George Cohan's famous song. : OVERTHERE
33
Part of pewter. : TIN
34
___ Paul Kruger. : OOM
35
Reward. : PAY
36
Literary initials. : RLS
37
Composer of "Liza." : GERSHWIN
38
Cloak and dagger outfit. : OSS
40
Man's nickname. : MOE
42
Warlike people of Syria. : DRUSES
43
"Sicklied ___ with the pale cast of thought." : OER
45
Thirty: Fr. : TRENTE
46
Eel. : CONGER
48
Pommels of western saddles. : HORNS
49
Rector's dwelling. : MANSE
50
Unit of energy. : ERG
51
Greek mountain. : OSSA
52
Snoods. : NETS
53
Times before. : EVES
55
Republic since 1949. : EIRE
57
Variety of Egyptian cotton. : SAK

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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