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Sidney Lambert
Sidney Lambert

New York Times, Tuesday, April 15, 1958

Author:
Sidney Lambert
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 303 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 26.7
Sidney Lambert has 114 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,213
Across
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Acclivity. : SLOPE
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Partake of food. : FARE
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Ask. : BEG
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Assume. : PUTON
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The same: Lat. : IDEM
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Hindustani. : URDU
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Otherwise, in law. : ALIAS
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Estuaries: Span. : RIAS
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On the ___ (immediately). : NAIL
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Heir. : SUCCESSOR
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Oblong white linen cloth worn by priests. : AMICE
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Holds up. : HALTS
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Switches. : SHUNTS
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Navy man: Abbr. : CPO
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Marble used as a shooter. : TAW
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Suppressed bark. : WOOF
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Pilgrimage to Mecca. : HADJ
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World of fashion. : VANITYFAIR
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Eskimauan native. : ALEUT
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Bushy clump. : TOD
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Golfer's bugbear. : SLICE
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Pursued steadily any course begun. : PERSEVERED
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Son of Aphrodite. : EROS
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Disrupt. : TEAR
45
Porcine animal. : SOW
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Adjective or noun suffix. : ENT
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Half pints. : SPLITS
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Disdain. : SPURN
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Juicy fruit. : PEACH
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Continued. : CARRIEDON
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Proportion. : RATE
59
Major port on Osaka Bay. : KOBE
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"Thus ___ Zarathustra." : SPAKE
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Particles. : ACES
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Genus of nut trees. : COLA
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"The harp that once through ___ halls ... " : TARAS
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Popular nickname for a cowboy. : TEX
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Highballed. : SPED
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Weavers' reeds. : SLEYS
Down
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9 Down and others. : SPAS
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Girl's name: Dim. : LULU
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Auditory. : OTIC
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Take, as game of fish, illegally. : POACH
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Put on a throne. : ENSEAT
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Highest quality, said of gems. : FIRSTWATER
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Spanish farewell. : ADIOS
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Build. : REAR
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Town ESE of Koblenz. : EMS
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Intelligence. : BRAIN
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Official notice. : EDICT
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Red, in heraldry. : GULES
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Remove the covering from. : UNMUFFLE
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Pole. : SLAV
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Nautical calls. : AHOYS
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Stubborn: Dial. : SOT
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Roughen, as the skin. : CHAP
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Faint. : PALE
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River into the Baltic. : ODER
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Rife. : WIDESPREAD
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Black, Burton, Clark, etc. : JUSTICES
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___'easter. : NOR
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River in Yorkshire. : AIRE
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Monumental portrait statue. : ICON
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Cue support, in billiards. : REST
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Bicuspids. : TEETH
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Anatomical duct. : VAS
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Sullen. : DOUR
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Carpi. : WRISTS
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Small herring. : SPRAT
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Canadian river, over 1,000 miles long. : PEACE
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Source of chicle. : LATEX
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Fur. : SABLE
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Himalayan land. : NEPAL
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Confine (with "up"). : COOP
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Meet defiantly. : DARE
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Approve: Colloq. : OKAY
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Promontory. : NESS
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Barristers, in England: Abbr. : KCS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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