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James R. Overholt
James R. Overholt

New York Times, Tuesday, May 3, 1955

Author:
James R. Overholt
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9, Grid flow: 41.3
James R. Overholt has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,135
Across
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Sports clothes. : TOGS
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Novelist William. : MCFEE
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Projections on wheels. : CAMS
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Exeunt ___; stage direction. : OMNI
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Tapestry. : ARRAS
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Trial race. : HEAT
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Color of a horse. : ROAN
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Troubadours. : POETS
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Singer Berger. : ERNA
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Waterloo for Cornwallis. : YORKTOWN
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Forming fruiting spikes. : EARING
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Premonition: Colloq. : HUNCH
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Yards. : AREAS
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Square peg in a round hole. : MISFIT
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Revolutionary Lee. : HARRY
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Well-known Berlin hotel. : ADLON
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Mrs., in Poland. : PANI
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Touchstone. : TEST
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Prominent early Americans. : GEORGEANDMARTHA
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Calendar abbreviation. : SEPT
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Frees. : RIDS
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Dogma. : TENET
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Ornamented, as a dish: Fr. : GARNI
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Fond hopes. : DREAMS
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Revolutionary Horatio. : GATES
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Last stanza of a ballade. : ENVOI
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In Europe, for example. : ABROAD
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Historic river. : DELAWARE
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One of a group in South Africa. : BOER
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"It's ___!" : AGIRL
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Armenian river. : ARAS
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Relative of a gill. : LUNG
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Italian goddess. : DIANA
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Hard hit. : SMIT
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Diminutive suffix. : ETTE
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Biblical name. : ABNER
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___ Park. : HYDE
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One side of the struggle in 1775. : TORY
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Melville book. : OMOO
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Growl: Var. : GNAR
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Kitchen appurtenance. : SINK
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Plan in detail. : MAPOUT
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Symbol of royalty. : CROWN
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___ War. : FRENCHANDINDIAN
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Consume. : EAT
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Being. : ESSE
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Parson Weems' fable, 1806. : CHERRYTREE
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High dwelling place. : AERIE
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Miraculous food. : MANNA
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Red deer. : STAGS
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Tangible object. : THING
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Swiss river. : AAR
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Indicators. : HANDS
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Periodicals: Colloq. : MAGS
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___ fixe. : IDEE
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Spill over. : SLOP
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Revolutionary New York defense. : FORTGEORGE
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Edge. : RIM
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Revolutionary patriot. : PAINE
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Sicilian volcano. : ETNA
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Son of Noah. : SHEM
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Does work with a shuttle. : TATS
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Make a mistake. : ERR
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Roman rooms. : ATRIA
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Man's name. : ASA
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It was thrown across the Rappahannock. : DOLLAR
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Triangular feature in architecture. : GABLE
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On every side. : ABOUT
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City in Italy. : TRENT
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French writer. : VERNE
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Baby's early word. : DADA
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Evergreen State: Abbr. : WASH
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The Redcoats. : ARMY
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Sortie. : RAID
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Renaissance family. : ESTE
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Name for The Rock. : GIB

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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