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Sidney Lambert
Sidney Lambert

New York Times, Saturday, July 3, 1954

10-Down : Buyers on the installment plan.

Author:
Sidney Lambert
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J K Q V X }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7 Grid has duplicate clues.
Sidney Lambert has 114 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,831
Across
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Relative of the goldfish. : CARP
5
Overhead tennis stroke. : SMASH
10
Idiotic. : DAFT
14
Melville novel. : OMOO
15
Companion of the Santa Maria. : PINTA
16
Central American tree. : EBOE
17
Popular color combination. : REDWHITEANDBLUE
20
Character in "From Here to Eternity." : PREWITT
21
Anklewear. : GAITERS
22
Numbers. : ONES
23
For. : PRO
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Cooked. : STEWED
27
In good spirits. : CHEERFUL
32
Unrefined. : CRASS
33
Caluminate. : SLUR
34
Showing effects of age. : SERE
35
Oriental. : RUG
36
Informal talks. : CHATS
37
Aly's father. : AGA
38
Part of an agenda. : ITEM
40
Vandals. : HUNS
41
Bemused. : DAZED
43
Method of expression. : PHRASING
45
Beginners who show promise. : COMERS
46
East Indian herb. : TIL
47
Masculine. : MALE
48
Convinces. : ASSURES
52
It began about 1000 B. C. in Europe. : IRONAGE
56
Subject of a Sousa march. : STARSANDSTRIPES
58
Subject of a Payne-Bishop song. : HOME
59
Lariat. : NOOSE
60
Uncles: Span. : TIOS
61
Sheep. : EWES
62
Vow. : SWEAR
63
Nathan Hale's alma mater. : YALE
Down
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Army N.C.O. : CORP
2
Part of the globe: Abbr. : AMER
3
What Paul Revere did. : RODE
4
Conferences: Colloq. : POWWOWS
5
Acted with malice. : SPITED
6
Baseball gear. : MITTS
7
Chemistry suffix. : ANE
8
Deer. : STAG
9
Wicker receptacles. : HANAPERS
10
Buyers on the installment plan. : DEBTORS
11
Can do. : ABLE
12
___ Freedoms. : FOUR
13
Letters. : TEES
18
Metropolitan opera bass. : HINES
19
Dreadful. : DIRE
24
Temporary certificate. : SCRIP
25
Genuineness. : TRUTH
26
On tiptoe. : EAGER
27
Noise from a trolley. : CLANG
28
Temporary dwellings. : HUTS
29
Discomfit: Var. : FEAZE
30
Exhorter. : URGER
31
Principal roles. : LEADS
33
Keep away from. : SHUN
36
People of Valparaiso. : CHILEANS
39
Reaches full growth. : MATURES
41
Sorrow: Poet. : DOLOR
42
Gentleness. : AMENITY
44
Knights. : SIRS
45
Dime novel detective. : CARTER
47
"___ Solemnis." : MISSA
48
County in N. C. : ASHE
49
Pack away. : STOW
50
Corresponding. : SAME
51
Whiteness: Poet. : SNOW
53
Upolu port. : APIA
54
College course: Abbr. : GEOL
55
To be: Latin. : ESSE
57
Deer. : DOE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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