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Israel Gitter
Israel Gitter

New York Times, Tuesday, June 29, 1954

25-Down : Sporting events.

Author:
Israel Gitter
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 44.4
Israel Gitter has 34 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,827
Across
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Speaks sharply (with "out"). : RIPS
5
Hudson Bay is one. : SEA
8
Modernists. : NEOS
12
City in India. : AGRA
13
Bobo Olson. : CHAMP
15
Not pro. : ANTI
16
Congressional prerogative. : JOINTRESOLUTION
19
Branch. : ARM
20
Well-known first name in Hollywood. : HEDY
21
Part of a storage battery. : ANODE
22
French friends. : AMIES
24
A partnership. : FIRM
25
Vin ordinaire: Slang. : REDINK
27
Sculpture, etching, ceramics, etc. : FINEARTS
31
Shortly. : ANON
32
Chinese weights. : TAELS
33
Elmer Davis headed it. : OWI
34
Famous unfinished literary work. : CANTERBURYTALES
38
Sea bird. : ERN
39
Spring flower. : PEONY
40
Diminutive suffixes. : ULES
41
Denizens of the North Pacific. : SEALIONS
43
Word in a farmer's vocabulary. : PARITY
45
Part of a farm. : ACRE
46
Wayside plant. : SUMAC
47
Single-celled organism. : MONAD
49
Part of A.D. : ANNO
50
Chinese diplomat. : KOO
53
A narrow way of thinking. : SINGLETRACKMIND
56
Old man: German. : ALTE
57
Well-known producer in Hollywood. : ROACH
58
Another Hollywood name. : INCE
59
Access. : DOOR
60
Wapiti. : ELK
61
Stone, Iron, etc. : AGES
Down
1
Malay chief. : RAJA
2
Author Gouzenko. : IGOR
3
Temperamental person. : PRIMADONNA
4
___ Salvador. : SAN
5
Lean-tos. : SHEDS
6
Kind of street. : EASY
7
I love: Latin. : AMO
8
Victor Herbert light opera. : NATOMA
9
Geraint's wife. : ENID
10
Oklahoma Indian. : OTOE
11
Original ___. : SIN
13
Narrow inlet. : CREEK
14
Without ambiguity. : PLAINLY
17
Kind of ice. : THIN
18
Disquiet. : UNREST
23
Flavoring for iced tea. : MINT
24
Spirited. : FIERY
25
Sporting events. : RACES
26
Finnish lake. : ENARE
27
Roman rural deities. : FAUNS
28
Hilarious. : ROLLICKING
29
Sound in the woods. : TWEET
30
Lord Fauntleroy. : SISSY
32
A cut of meat. : TBONE
35
Majestic. : EPICAL
36
The "lifeblood" of any business. : REORDER
37
Halo. : AURA
42
Senator Young's colleague. : LANGER
43
Hero of a popular puppet show. : PUNCH
44
On the loose. : AMOK
46
Milk and cake. : SNACK
47
Island of Venus statue. : MILO
48
Cognizant of: Slang. : ONTO
49
See 5 Across. : ARAL
51
As soon as. : ONCE
52
Works of Horace. : ODES
53
Mournful. : SAD
54
Missing part of some shoes. : TOE
55
Italian pronoun. : MIA

Answer summary:
5 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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