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Sidney Lambert
Sidney Lambert

New York Times, Wednesday, May 2, 1956

Author:
Sidney Lambert
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11, Grid flow: 58.2
Sidney Lambert has 114 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1956, The New York TimesNo. 2,500
Across
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Rustic summer place. : CAMP
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Yarn with fibers untwisted at intervals. : SLUB
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Operatic rendition. : SOLO
13
Tropical plant. : ALOE
14
Assume. : POSIT
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Uneven. : ALOP
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Stupefy. : STUN
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Coauthor of "Silk Stockings." : ABEBURROWS
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Wavered. : TOTTERED
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Approaches. : NEARS
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Unwieldy things. : HULKS
24
Storage frames. : BINS
25
Cover with spots. : DAPPLE
27
Bullied. : HECTORED
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High priest. : ELI
32
Rodzinski. : ARTUR
34
Ancient pillar. : STELE
35
Author Waugh. : ALEC
37
More steady. : SURER
39
Culmination. : ACME
40
Hollow in a wall. : NICHE
42
Set down in writing. : NOTED
44
___ pepper. : RED
45
Enters surreptitiously. : SNEAKSIN
47
Threadlike structures. : FIBERS
49
Voters: Abbr. : CITS
50
Late Soviet official. : BERIA
51
Beldame. : CRONE
53
Stopped the spread of. : ARRESTED
56
Shifting of position. : CHANGEOVER
58
"___, Silver!" : HIYO
59
Zloty. : COIN
60
Verify. : PROVE
61
Part of a range. : OVEN
62
Diminutive suffix. : CULE
63
Reverentially respectful. : AWED
64
Nuisance. : PEST
Down
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Add up figures. : CAST
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Singing voice. : ALTO
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Spokesman. : MOUTHPIECE
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Confined. : PENTUP
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Gallants of olden days. : SPARKERS
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Rounded projections. : LOBES
7
Accustomed (to). : USED
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___ and tucker. : BIB
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Winter home of the circus. : SARASOTA
10
Genus of swans. : OLOR
11
Moos. : LOWS
12
Harvest goddess. : OPS
15
Blouse. : TUNIC
19
Leases. : RENTS
21
Singer Logan. : ELLA
24
Cap. : BERET
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Famous pitchers. : DEANS
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Fatigued: Colloq. : ALLIN
27
Second largest Great Lake. : HURON
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Diverting. : RECREATIVE
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One of the Davises. : ELMER
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Exploits. : DEEDS
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Historic African city. : TUNIS
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Stately Spanish dance. : CHACONNE
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Submitted for settlement. : REFERRED
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Barely getting by. : EKING
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Terrible. : DIRE
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Precipitous. : STEEP
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Churchman. : BISHOP
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Curved mark over a short vowel. : BREVE
51
Cabbage: French. : CHOU
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Bird. : RAIL
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Admit openly. : AVOW
54
Irises. : EYES
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"___ fence me in." : DONT
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Government credit agency. : CCC
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Pray: Latin. : ORA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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