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Isaac Kert
Isaac Kert

New York Times, Saturday, May 21, 1955

Author:
Isaac Kert
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 23.1 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Isaac Kert has 30 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,153
Across
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Pastel color. : LILAC
6
Go away! : SCAT
10
Heaven: Fr. : CIEL
14
City in Spain. : AVILA
15
Well-known mystery writer. : CARR
16
Coin of the Far East. : ANNA
17
Scholar's degree. : LITTB
18
Treater of certain ailments. : OSTEOPATH
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Silver coin of Rumania. : LEU
21
Character. : SORT
23
Rubber. : ERASER
24
Egyptian symbols. : ASPS
26
Card play. : MELD
28
Important Army corps. : ANC
29
What bridge players draw for. : THEDEAL
32
Monotonous. : DRAB
35
Handbook. : MANUAL
38
European country: Abbr. : SWED
40
Miss March. : AMY
41
Have ___ (be meddlesome). : AFINGERINTHEPIE
44
Black Hawk was one. : SAC
45
British machine gun. : STEN
46
Foolishly fond ones. : DOTERS
47
Streetcar. : TRAM
49
"Won't you ___?" : SITDOWN
51
Santha Rama ___, Indian writer. : RAU
53
T. E. Lawrence's legal name. : SHAW
54
Wrong. : AWRY
58
Ancient city. : SPARTA
61
Osprey. : ERNE
63
Scottish "have." : HAE
64
Admirer of a certain composer. : WAGNERIAN
66
Country in the headlines. : CHINA
68
Tropical malady. : AGUE
69
Rosemary Murphy's husband. : ABIE
70
Dignity. : HONOR
71
Apparatus. : GEAR
72
Flicker. : BIRD
73
Begins. : OPENS
Down
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___ Rookh, Moore heroine. : LALLA
2
Climbing plants. : IVIES
3
Became cheerful. : LITUP
4
Singer: Abbr. : ALT
5
Hansoms. : CABS
6
Upbraided. : SCORED
7
Imaginary things. : CASTLESINTHEAIR
8
Principles of a trade. : ART
9
Arborvitae. : TREE
10
___ gown. : CAPAND
11
Faced by a disagreeable situation. : INASCRAPE
12
Division of a shield: Her. : ENTE
13
He played the Cowardly Lion. : LAHR
19
___ pro nobis. : ORA
22
Breakfast dishes. : OMELETS
25
Overwhelm. : STUN
27
Time of day. : DAWN
30
The Weird Sisters. : HAGS
31
Disappointment: Colloq. : LETDOWN
33
Moslem V. I. P. : AMIR
34
Golf holes left unplayed. : BYES
35
Derrick pole. : MAST
36
___ cry. : AFAR
37
Costa Rica's neighbor. : NICARAGUA
39
Ship of the Indian Ocean. : DHOW
42
Former Brazilian money of account. : REIS
43
Vulcan's armory. : ETNA
48
George Eliot character. : MARNER
50
Used a needle. : DARNED
52
Indian. : UTE
55
Kennel sound effect. : WHINE
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Talked too long. : RANON
57
"The Green ___," by Cronin. : YEARS
58
Plunder. : SWAG
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Attendant. : PAGE
60
One interest of 53 Across. : ARAB
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Cave sound effect. : ECHO
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There: Latin. : IBI
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College dance. : HOP

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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