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Isaac Kert
Isaac Kert

New York Times, Saturday, May 30, 1953

60-Across : 2,800-mi river into the Arctic.

Author:
Isaac Kert
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.78, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 305 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12, Grid flow: 44.4
Isaac Kert has 30 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,441
Across
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Nautically inclining. : ALIST
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Monarch. : SHAH
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A laugh. : HAHA
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Heroine of "The Flying Dutchman." : SENTA
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Angel's headgear. : HALO
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Part of the world: Abbr. : AMER
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A slangy ultimatum. : TAKEITORLEAVEIT
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Colleague: Abbr. : ASST
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Diving birds. : AUKS
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Upton Sinclair's hero. : LANNY
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One ampere turn per maxwell. : REL
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Essential part. : PITH
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Term of endearment: Colloq. : HON
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Aaron's golden calf. : IDOL
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West German chief. : ADENAUER
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Having musical sound. : TONED
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Canadian Ambassador to Washington. : WRONG
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Bevan's nickname. : NYE
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Demonstrations of affection. : HUGS
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Hay-gatherers. : RAKES
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Heaven: Fr. : CIEL
40
Purpose or object. : USE
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St. ___, one of the Leeward Islands. : KITTS
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Miss Kelly, comedienne. : PATSY
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Samson's forte. : STRENGTH
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Tree yielding a useful nut. : COLA
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Portuguese colony in India. : GOA
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Ancient country E of Chaldea. : ELAM
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Sugar-cane product. : RUM
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Lilo's specialties. : SONGS
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Sound of a radar signal. : BLIP
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Aboriginal Japanese. : AINO
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Popular Civil War song. : TRAMPTRAMPTRAMP
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2,800-mi river into the Arctic. : LENA
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Answer to the roll call. : HERE
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Vouvray and Moselle. : WINES
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Heroine of "The Good Earth." : OLAN
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Oxen of Asia. : YAKS
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A meat pie. : PASTY
Down
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Something to hitch your wagon to. : ASTAR
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A certain contract. : LEASE
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Newspaper man: Slang. : INKSLINGER
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Let it stand. : STET
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Siamese. : TAI
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Outcry. : SHOUT
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One of Schubert's most popular songs. : HARKHARKTHELARK
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Town crier's word. : ALLS
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Weeder. : HOE
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Home of calypso music. : HAVANA
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Often sung word. : AMEN
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Eh? What?: French interjection. : HEIN
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Bohemian. : ARTY
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Stem of a note. : TAIL
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"Git ___, little dogies ... " : ALONG
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Two-valved seed vessel. : POD
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Layers. : HENS
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___ Moines, Iowa. : DES
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"Monkey sees, monkey ___." : DOES
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Advocates of centralization, as in government. : UNITARIANS
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Cantor's dominating feature. : EYES
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Repose confidence. : RELY
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"___ Spake Zarathustra." : THUS
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Put out of office. : OUST
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Unit of electric power. : WATT
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Latvia's capital. : RIGA
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22,346 students: Colloq. : CAL
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Architectural ornament. : KNOSP
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Small dog. : POM
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"Big butter and ___." : EGGMAN
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Creator of the Yokums. : CAPP
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Fruit for an ade. : LIMES
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Not faced squarely. : UNMET
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Relative of Peter Rabbit. : MOPSY
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Capital of Manche Dept., France. : STLO
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City in Black Earth region. : OREL
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Character in "Peter Pan." : NANA
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Spanish asphalt or pitch. : BREA
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Tosca's "Vissi d'Arte." : ARIA
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Pronoun. : THY
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Division of a county: Abbr. : TWP

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

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