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THIS AND THAT

New York Times, Sunday, July 12, 1959

58-Across : Proceeds with difficulty.

Author:
W. E. Jones
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 160, Blocks: 87, Avg Word Len: 5.53, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 603 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 168, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 22
W. E. Jones has 95 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,649
Across
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Sponsors of social affairs. : PATRONS
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More rapid: Mus. : STRETTA
15
Kind of onion. : SPANISH
22
Party to property transfer: Law. : ALIENEE
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Coast dweller. : ORARIAN
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Adriatic port. : TRIESTE
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Benjamin Franklin's pen name. : RICHARDSAUNDERS
27
Character in "Comedy of Errors." : AEMILIA
28
Arrive at. : MAKE
29
Swerved. : VEERED
30
"One-Penny Magenta," "Triangle," etc. : STAMPS
32
Shortening. : LARD
33
Workers in metallurgy. : ASSAYERS
35
De Ré and d'Oléron. : ILES
37
Library exhibits: Abbr. : MSS
38
Clump of ivy, etc. : TOD
39
Imagine: Archaic. : TROW
43
Composer of "Manon." : MASSENET
47
Captured. : TAKEN
50
Pope in 928. : LEOVI
51
St. ___, Cornwall resort. : IVES
52
Ships for any port. : TRAMPS
56
Felled, as a tree. : AXED
57
N. African descendant of Ham. : BERBER
58
Proceeds with difficulty. : LIMPS
60
Cold: Poet. : FRORE
61
Cambridge school: Abbr. : MIT
62
Ornamental work. : TRACERY
63
Revers. : LAPELS
65
Clip. : SNIP
66
Book hastily written for gain. : POTBOILER
68
Restores. : RENEWS
70
Tyke. : TOT
71
City on the Somme. : AMIENS
72
Ships: Abbr. : STRS
75
Suppliers for 44 Down. : BIRDDEALERS
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Abstains from food. : FASTS
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Hawaiian food. : POI
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Party member: Abbr. : REP
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Of Frankish law. : SALIC
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Mountain system of Western U. S. : CORDILLERAS
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Eskers. : OSAR
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Italian condiment. : TAMARA
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Himalayan peak. : API
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Bounded. : LEAPED
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Banished from sight or mind. : RELEGATED
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Impart. : LEND
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Hiss: Dial. : SISSLE
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Brilliant passage in music. : BRAVURA
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There: Lat. : IBI
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Cereal fungus. : ERGOT
103
Saltpeter. : NITER
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Metric units. : LITERS
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Cozy. : SNUG
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To ___ (certainly). : BESURE
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Red ink entry. : LOSS
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River into the Orinoco. : APURE
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Parlor, bedroom and bath. : SUITE
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Answer. : RESPONSE
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Catfish Row dweller. : BESS
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Ad ___. : SUM
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Rowan. : ASH
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Where Nicholas Udall taught. : ETON
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Reaffirms. : ITERATES
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Apply oneself to. : READ
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Take on. : ASSUME
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Last word of "Rule Britannia." : SLAVES
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Far: Comb. form. : TELE
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Florence Dombey's shy suitor. : MRTOOTS
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Gladstone, for example. : PARLIAMENTARIAN
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Supervise. : OVERSEE
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Dispose. : ARRANGE
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Leaseholders. : TENANTS
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Make amends to. : REDRESS
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English poet. : SASSOON
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Relative of a railbird. : STANDEE
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Suburb of Cleveland. : PARMA
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Otherwise. : ALIAS
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Check marks. : TICKS
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Warmed over. : REHEATED
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___ shoestring. : ONA
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Gave vigor to. : NERVED
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Jewish home festival. : SEDER
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Mount aloft. : SOAR
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Rightly so called. : TRUE
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Transvaal region (with "the"). : RAND
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Earth: Dial. : ERD
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Sleepers. : TIES
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Turnover. : TART
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Handle: Lat. : ANSA
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Standard item. : STAPLE
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Begun but not ended. : PRESENT
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Purpose. : AIM
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Sec. McElroy. : NEIL
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Moslem world. : ISLAM
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Pokes. : STIRS
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Large, compact buds. : HEADS
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Money in Augustus' treasury. : SESTERCES
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Squander. : MISSPEND
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Farther: Archaic. : YON
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Bondsman. : SERF
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The Music Man. : ROBERTPRESTON
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Through. : OVER
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Stiff. : WIRY
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Raised edge on a coin. : MILL
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Zoo features. : AVIARIES
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U. S. Coast Guard slogan. : SEMPERPARATUS
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Bluejackets. : TARS
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Where Ybor City is. : TAMPA
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Truism. : AXIOM
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Dramatist of "Look Homeward, Angel." : KETTIFRINGS
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Loyal: Scot. : LEAL
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Spa in Tuscany. : MONTECATINI
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Former. : PRIOR
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Ancient Irish clans. : SEPTS
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Hackles. : BRISTLES
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Coasters. : SLEDS
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One of a pair: Anat. : TONSIL
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Varsity garb. : SWEATERS
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Small globular body. : BEAD
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Gold Coast town. : SALAGA
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Trackless. : ROADLESS
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Young girl: Colloq. : SIS
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Relative: Abbr. : BRO
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Its port is Callao. : LIMA
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Destroyed. : SLAIN
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Chief spy sent into Canaan. : CALEB
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___ citato. : OPERE
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Greek letters. : EPSILONS
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Tending to turn backward. : REVERSIVE
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Contradict. : REBUT
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Verona's river. : ADIGE
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Attraction. : LURE
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Gloomy. : DOUR
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Irish. : ERSE
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Tell all. : BLAB
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Sufficiently advanced. : RIPE
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Hornbeam, for one. : TREE
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Indonesian indigene. : SUMATRAN
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Properties. : ESTATES
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Over: Prefix. : SUR
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Armed bands. : POSSES
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Sonnet section. : SESTET
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Bucklers, helmets, greaves, etc. : ARMOR
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Olmedo's forte. : SERVE
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Shrank from. : HATED
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Canvases. : TENTS
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Tithe: Scot. : TEIND
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Exalt. : ELATE
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Awareness. : SENSE
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1842 rebel. : DORR
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Javanese tree. : UPAS
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Naomi's chosen name. : MARA
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Does wrong. : ERRS
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Chinese: Comb. form. : SINO
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___ di Como. : LAGO
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Reverential assent. : AMEN
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Chemical suffix. : OSE
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___ Cruces. : LAS
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Santa___, California. : ANA

Answer summary: 12 unique to this puzzle, 10 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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