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Herbert Ettenson
Herbert Ettenson

New York Times, Wednesday, March 4, 1959

46-Across : Player of Ellery Queen on TV.

Author:
Herbert Ettenson
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
Herbert Ettenson has 87 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,519
Across
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Acronym for a new drug. : ACTH
5
French chanteuse. : PIAF
9
Applications. : USES
13
Boutique or bodega. : STORE
14
Raison d'___. : ETRE
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Shrub of the pepper family. : KAVA
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Without face value, as stock. : NOPAR
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Legend on one of the three monkeys. : SEENOEVIL
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Favored position. : INSIDETRACK
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Wapiti. : ELK
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Hammer head. : PEEN
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Gov. Patterson's state: Abbr. : ALA
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Cupid. : EROS
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London street like Fifth Avenue. : REGENT
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Behind. : AFTER
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Join up. : ENROLL
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Cap for a dervish. : TAJ
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Brilliancy. : FIRE
38
Tropical sea birds. : BOOBIES
40
Kind of eating place. : AUTOMAT
42
Waif of the streets. : ARAB
43
Surpass. : TOP
45
Musical compositions. : NONETS
46
Player of Ellery Queen on TV. : NADER
48
French F. B. I. : SURETE
50
Cheese. : BRIE
52
Contemporary cartoonist. : REA
53
Exchange: Colloq. : SWAP
57
Be indisposed. : AIL
59
Legislation with many provisions. : OMNIBUSBILL
62
Arctic hazard. : FROSTBITE
64
Courtyard. : PATIO
65
Bridge. : ARCH
66
And elsewhere: Lat. abbr. : ETAL
67
Like ___ (quickly): Slang. : ASHOT
68
Lothario. : RAKE
69
Within: Fr. : DANS
70
Pipe joints. : TEES
Down
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Agreed. : ATONE
2
Thicket. : COPSE
3
"Heavy" role in a Western. : TRAINROBBER
4
Lots of cattle. : HERD
5
Pulverizer. : PESTLE
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Repeating. : ITERANT
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Surface. : AREA
8
Thrust and parry. : FENCE
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Strummer's instrument. : UKE
10
Takes a short cut. : SAVESTIME
11
Miscreant's doing. : EVIL
12
Kind of vaccine. : SALK
13
Scissor cut. : SNIP
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Gumbo. : OKRA
20
Young bird. : EAGLET
25
Absurdly mistaken: Slang phrase. : OFFONESBASE
27
Actor Wallach. : ELI
28
Chinese pagoda. : TAA
30
Part of Q. E. D. : ERAT
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Macerates. : RETS
32
Israeli VIP. : EBAN
33
Ibsenian heroine. : NORA
34
Part of a dragnet. : ROADBLOCK
36
Newest state capital. : JUNEAU
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Morse Code call. : SOS
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Little one. : TOT
44
John Alden, for example. : PURITAN
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Battle royal. : RIOT
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Castro's men. : REBELS
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Implant. : EMBED
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Osier twig. : WITHE
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Inter ___ (among other persons): Lat. : ALIOS
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Cabal. : PLOT
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Remote. : AFAR
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Singer Petina. : IRRA
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Girl in an old song. : NITA
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Petty quarrel. : SPAT
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Haggard heroine. : SHE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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