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Jules Arensberg
Jules Arensberg

New York Times, Friday, April 22, 1955

65-Across : Pintail duck.

Author:
Helen Barnard
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F J Q U X Y }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 45.2 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Jules Arensberg has 95 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Helen Barnard is an alias for Jules Arensberg.
David Steinberg notes:

Note that the 7-Down clue is inaccurate: Iran has never been part of the Arab League.

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© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,124
Across
1
Throw things at. : PELT
5
Yellow color. : MAIZE
10
Military equipment. : ARMS
14
Melville novel. : OMOO
15
Pungent. : ACRID
16
Unbolted grain. : MEAL
17
Required reading for brokers. : TICKERTAPE
19
Prepare pastry. : BAKE
20
One, followed by twelve zeros. : TRILLION
21
Used invective. : RAILED
23
State. : AVER
24
Typewriter type. : ELITE
25
Chaser of rabbits. : BASSET
28
A house and its land. : PREMISES
31
Cash register abbreviation. : AMT
32
Step. : STAIR
34
___ voce. : SOTTO
35
Material for an evening gown. : SILK
37
City on the Rhone. : ARLES
39
Okinawa's capital. : NAHA
40
Encore! : AGAIN
42
Shrub used in making dyes. : ALDER
44
Land: Abbr. : TER
45
Section of Scotland. : LOWLANDS
47
Certain horses. : PACERS
49
Part played by Olivier. : ROMEO
50
Sea, arm of the Arctic Ocean. : KARA
51
Metal pin. : SKEWER
53
Fondled. : CARESSED
57
Mrs. Leonowens. : ANNA
58
Port of Chile. : VALPARAISO
60
Ancient Briton. : PICT
61
Modern poet. : ELIOT
62
Shoemaker's block. : LAST
63
Printing term. : STET
64
Grip on a ship's steering wheel. : SPOKE
65
Pintail duck. : SMEE
Down
1
Size of writing paper, 12½x15. : POTT
2
Prince of Araby. : EMIR
3
Places. : LOCI
4
Gertrude Stein's friend, Alice B. ___. : TOKLAS
5
Heroine of a Herbert operetta. : MARIETTA
6
Power. : ACTOR
7
Member of the Arab League. : IRAN
8
Sharp, hissing sound. : ZIP
9
Predecessor of Florence Chadwick. : EDERLE
10
Caesar's downfall. : AMBITION
11
Property. : REALESTATE
12
Fashion. : MAKE
13
Pung. : SLED
18
The little people. : ELVES
22
Aspirations. : AIMS
24
Slipped. : ERRED
25
___ metabolism. : BASAL
26
Friend. : AMIGO
27
Site of a power project. : STLAWRENCE
28
Placebos. : PILLS
29
The empyrean. : ETHER
30
Wings upward. : SOARS
33
Tilled land, in the Southwest. : ARADO
36
Electrical measure. : KILOWATT
38
Muster out. : SEPARATE
41
Important person. : NAME
43
Less frequent. : RARER
46
Gives courage to. : NERVES
48
Great cellist. : CASALS
50
Pillow stuffing from silk-cotton tree. : KAPOK
51
Undermines. : SAPS
52
Make a sweater. : KNIT
53
Muse of history. : CLIO
54
Where 57 Across taught. : SIAM
55
To be: Latin. : ESSE
56
Love foolishly. : DOTE
59
Mont Cenis. : ALP

Answer summary:
3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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