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Harold T. Bers
Harold T. Bers

New York Times, Wednesday, June 10, 1953

Author:
Harold T. Bers
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 39.3
Harold T. Bers has 138 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,452
Across
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Flexible. : LIMP
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Measure of work, in physics. : ERGON
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"Porgy and Bess" star, ___ Calloway. : CAB
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Breslau's river. : ODER
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Layer of skin. : DERMA
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Go it alone. : SOLO
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Party man. : POLITICIAN
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Mathematics preposition. : INTO
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H. R. H. : ELIZABETH
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Mummer. : ACTOR
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Building extensions. : ELLS
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Norse sea god. : AEGIR
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Winthrop Aldrich's title: Abbr. : AMB
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For fear that. : LEST
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Tighten in again. : RELACE
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Conduits from a reservoir. : MAINS
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Oliver Cromwell's nickname. : IRONSIDES
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Part of "to go": Fr. : ALLE
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France's largest river. : LOIRE
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Troubles. : AILS
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Historic city of Spain. : SALAMANCA
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A title for Pogo. : UNCLE
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Imitates a noisy napper. : SNORES
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Unit of speed. : KNOT
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Twenty hundredweight. : TON
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Mississippi region. : DELTA
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Part of Gen. Patton's nickname. : GUTS
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"___ a lover and his lass ... " : ITWAS
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Without relish. : SAUCELESS
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Is profitable. : PAYS
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Going straight to the point. : FORTHRIGHT
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Proofreader's term. : STET
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Seaweeds. : ALGAE
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Dartmoor. : GAOL
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Place for a ring. : EAR
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Times of day. : NOONS
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Margarine. : OLEO
Down
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Mustang's gait. : LOPE
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The people's favorite. : IDOL
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Honey: Comb. form. : MELI
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Anything worth striving for. : PRIZE
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Esculent. : EDIBLE
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A dip in the prosperity chart. : RECESSION
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Sandlike particles. : GRIT
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City on Lincoln Highway. : OMAHA
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Girl's nickname. : NAN
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Take issue with. : CONTRADICT
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Quartet singer. : ALTO
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Ill-mannered one. : BOOR
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Native of Palermo. : SICILIAN
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Six-footers. : TALLS
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"Rock of ___." : AGES
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Relative of the bald eagle. : ERNE
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Heap up. : AMASS
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79-year-old P. M. : MALAN
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One-time envoy to Mexico. : BILLODWYER
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A girl, when cute. : TRICK
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Casals' specialty. : CELLO
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City 37 mi. north of Cologne. : ESSEN
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Region of frequent upheaval. : NEAREAST
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"Man of the woods" of Malaya. : ORANGUTAN
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Time to laugh. : LAST
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Ott and Allen. : MELS
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Out-and-out. : UTTER
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Exclamations of pain. : OUCHES
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Town in N. Italy, Duse's burial place. : ASOLO
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Seaport N. W. of Dublin. : SLIGO
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___ dixit (assertion without proof): Lat. : IPSE
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Flippant farewell. : TATA
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Jason's ship. : ARGO
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Equal: French. : EGAL
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Brogue or loafer. : SHOE
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Town near Caen. : STLO
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Bleachers customer. : FAN

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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