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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

New York Times, Thursday, August 18, 1955

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { J Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11, Grid flow: 38.4 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,242
Across
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Reminiscent meal. : HASH
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Bitter cries. : SOBS
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Author of "America the Beautiful." : BATES
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Spanish jug. : OLLA
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Defense. : PLEA
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Vital. : ALIVE
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Most addicted to jive. : SLANGIEST
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Made with split rattan. : CANED
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Newspaper service. : SYNDICATE
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Whale's stripped carcass. : KRENG
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Eat. : DINE
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Table companion. : MESSMATE
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Balls of tread or yarn. : CLEWS
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Dogma. : TENET
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Man of daring. : HERO
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Embargo. : BAN
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Rubble. : DEBRIS
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Turned aside. : AVERTED
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Well filled. : REPLETE
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Hooded garments for Aleutian wear. : PARKAS
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Make imperfect. : MAR
40
Plural suffix, in zoology. : ACEA
41
Car model. : SEDAN
43
Beat it! : SCRAM
44
Home-loving. : DOMESTIC
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Fraudulent. : FAKE
49
Run away. : ELOPE
50
Trick with a disappearing pea. : SHELLGAME
54
Where Innsbruck is. : TIROL
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Thought it over. : MEDITATED
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Baffle pursuit. : EVADE
57
On one's toes. : ATIP
58
___ dive. : NOSE
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Guided again. : RELED
60
___ go. : LETS
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Member of the family, for short. : GRAN
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Cowpoke's mount. : HOSS
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Brother in arms. : ALLY
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Owner of a bad tongue. : SLANDERER
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Do-it-yourself production. : HANDIWORK
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Flavorful part. : SPICE
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Olive genus. : OLEA
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The fellows who may win. : BESTMEN
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Lining fabric. : SATEEN
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Retrogression. : BACKSTEP
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Buzzer of a clock. : ALARM
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Clothes moth. : TINEA
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Significant happening. : EVENT
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Rough grass. : SEDGE
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Cotton processers. : GINS
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Passover feast. : SEDER
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Fellow. : CHAP
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Bulgarian coins. : LEVA
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Small child. : TAD
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Much harried. : BESET
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Engine-room crew: Slang. : BLACKGANG
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Reanimator. : RECREATOR
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Virginia willow. : ITEA
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Wrinkle. : SEAM
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Ornamented with fringed knobs. : TASSELED
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Fled. : RAN
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Jungle knife. : MACHETE
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Gloomy. : DISMAL
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Season to taste. : SALT
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Cause to pause. : DETER
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Color similar to chartreuse. : OLIVE
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Aesop's point. : MORAL
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Aftersong. : EPODE
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Diver's gyrations. : FLIPS
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Revise. : EDIT
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A remnant of erosion. : MESA
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World of innocence. : EDEN

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

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