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Cora Goodman
Cora Goodman

New York Times, Thursday, July 20, 1967

51-Across : Expressed pithily.

Author:
Cora Goodman
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J K Q W X }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 43.7
Cora Goodman has 50 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,550
Across
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Elephant in Kipling tale. : HATHI
6
Couple. : PAIR
10
Skipper: Abbr. : CAPT
14
Noun suffix. : ATION
15
Noted publisher. : LUCE
16
Gen. Bradley. : OMAR
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Emancipates. : FREES
18
At the apex. : ATOP
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Not at all. : NONE
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Region of hot countries. : TORRIDZONE
22
Ben of "Treasure Island." : GUNN
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Not colorful. : DRAB
24
Looked, in a way. : LEERED
26
Specialties in cookery. : SAUCES
30
Jersey and Alderney. : ISLES
32
Faux pas. : ERROR
33
Fleeting. : MOMENTARY
37
Orderly. : TRIM
38
Summoned, in a way. : PAGED
39
Flag. : IRIS
40
English county. : HAMPSHIRE
42
State capital. : BOISE
43
"You may ___ horse to water ... " : LEADA
44
Split. : SUNDER
45
Attraction. : APPEAL
48
Greek letters. : PHIS
50
Weight unit. : DRAM
51
Expressed pithily. : APHORISTIC
57
Sharpen. : HONE
58
Black: Fr. : NOIR
59
Part of a poem. : EPODE
60
Hot spot. : OVEN
61
Moves. : GOES
62
Weapon. : SABER
63
See 49 Down. : COLT
64
In addition. : ELSE
65
Special tidbit. : TREAT
Down
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Ax part. : HAFT
2
Black: Prefix. : ATRO
3
Row. : TIER
4
Farm worker. : HOER
5
One in the know. : INSIDER
6
City feature. : PLAZA
7
Reading matter. : AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
8
Sacred image. : ICON
9
Forced back. : REPELLED
10
Traffic problem. : CONGESTION
11
Love affair. : AMOUR
12
Kind of velvet. : PANNE
13
Drift. : TREND
21
Men of high degree. : DRS
25
Poetic time. : EEN
26
One of the Thomases. : SETH
27
Irish expletive. : ARRA
28
Hebrew sacred objects. : URIM
29
An entirety. : COMPLEMENT
31
Duck. : SMEE
33
Servitor. : MAID
34
Unfruitful. : ARID
35
Emerge. : RISE
36
Belgian river. : YSER
38
Bone of a finger. : PHALANGE
41
Carrier's milieu. : SEA
42
Most industrious. : BUSIEST
44
Term of address. : SIR
45
For this case only: Lat. : ADHOC
46
City in Utah. : PROVO
47
Kind of TV show. : PANEL
49
Buckpasser, for one. : HORSE
52
Feature of a country home. : POOL
53
Shadowbox. : SPAR
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Basic infinitive. : TOBE
55
Notion. : IDEA
56
Sure thing: Brit. slang. : CERT

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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