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Lester Keene
Lester Keene

Questionnaire

New York Times, Sunday, August 4, 1946

Author:
Lester Keene
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 132, Blocks: 76, Avg Word Len: 5.53, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 496 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 163, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 46, Grid flow: 21.2 Grid has duplicate clues.
Lester Keene has 35 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Original 84-Down clue had "commeration"; changed to "commemoration."

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© 1946, The New York TimesNo. 234
Across
1
CPA chief. : SMALL
6
White House secretary. : ROSS
10
Where the Palazzo del Laterano is. : ROMA
14
Humiliate. : ABASH
19
The guinea pig family. : CAVIA
20
Where Basra is. : IRAK
21
Protection. : EGIS
22
Movable limbs of a sextant. : RADII
23
About. : ANENT
24
The George Washington of Italy (1807–82). : GARIBALDI
26
Decorative motif. : ACORN
27
Gamut. : RANGE
28
Perseus rescued her from the sea-monster. : ANDROMEDA
29
Disclosed. : BARED
30
Goaders. : EGGERS
32
Pronoun. : ITS
33
Power: Comb. form. : DYNA
35
Unaspirated. : LENE
36
Motive power in Lapland. : DEER
37
Trigons. : TRINES
40
Less timid. : BOLDER
42
Bicycle race course. : SAUCER
43
Motive. : REASON
47
Soaps. : CASTILES
50
Giddy Miss Wilfer of Our Mutual Friend. : BELLA
51
___ Kett. : ETTA
55
Plastered. : MORTARED
56
Redeemer. : SAVIOR
57
Further. : SERVE
59
Anger. : ENRAGE
60
Gaming places. : CASINOS
61
Nobel peace prize winner, 1912. : ROOT
62
140,000,000. : UNITEDSTATESOFAMERICA
67
Hindu dancing deity. : SIVA
68
Coleridge's hero, 1798. : MARINER
69
Little poem. : ODELET
70
Circumstance. : EVENT
72
Bloomed. : OPENED
73
Fruits of the conifer. : PINENUTS
75
Noble Italian family. : ESTE
76
Belief. : TENET
77
Severity. : HARDNESS
78
Arbitrarily placed in a tournament. : SEEDED
80
God of the north wind. : BOREAS
81
Bush cats. : CIVETS
85
Amusing event. : COMEDY
86
Fighter plane, World War I. : SPAD
90
Space. : AREA
91
Palm starch. : SAGO
95
Egg: Comb. form. : OVI
96
Parisian vegetable dish. : SALADE
98
People of North Europe. : NORSE
100
Abandoned ships. : DERELICTS
104
Gallantry. : VALOR
105
Town near Des Moines. : ANITA
106
Ernie Pyle was one. : INDIANIAN
107
He tried to reach heaven on an eagle. : ETANA
108
What Lucullus did. : DINED
109
Row. : TIER
110
She wrote "Show Boat." : EDNA
111
Forgive. : REMIT
112
Single-stroke point scorers. : ACERS
113
Withered. : SERE
114
Percolate. : SEEP
115
Spoor. : TRACE
Down
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Terrified. : SCARED
2
Run. : MANAGE
3
Requite. : AVENGE
4
Dally. : LINGER
5
After. : LATER
6
Baltic Sea port. : RIGA
7
North African port. : ORAN
8
Young herrings. : SARDINES
9
Dog that runs wide of the pack. : SKIRTER
10
Countersink. : REAM
11
Eyed. : OGLED
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Loose blouse. : MIDDY
13
One of millions. : ASIAN
14
Graceful horse. : ARAB
15
Mrs. Humphrey Bogart. : BACALL
16
Loved. : ADORED
17
Fog signal. : SIRENE
18
Obstruct. : HINDER
25
Foreman. : BOSS
31
Furnished with steps. : STAIRED
34
Cameroon Negro. : ABO
38
Control. : RULE
39
Frozen. : ICED
41
Pronoun. : ONES
42
Display publicly. : STAGE
43
Edited. : REVISED
44
___ Glyn, author of "Three Weeks." : ELINOR
45
At a distance. : ALOOF
46
Sasparilla. : SARSA
47
Cooperate secretly. : CONNIVE
48
Is successful. : ARRIVES
49
Standing: Heraldry. : STATANT
50
System of triangles adjacent to a base line: Surv. : BASENET
52
Worldly. : TERRENE
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Shakespeare's type of constancy. : TROILUS
54
Curved-billed wading birds. : AVOCETS
55
It flows through Verdun. : MEUSE
56
Given a glossy finish. : SATINED
58
___ Unis. : ETATS
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A type of terpene. : CARENE
63
Hit. : SMOTE
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Measured. : TAPED
65
Days of the moon. : MONDAYS
66
Ideal places. : EDENS
71
Touchstone. : TEST
73
Famous French surgeon (1517–90). : PARE
74
Angered. : IRED
77
Manslayer. : HOMICIDE
79
Letter. : ESS
80
Oxen. : BOVINES
81
King's country. : CANADA
82
Satiric. : IRONIC
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Product of veratric acid. : VERINE
84
Day of commemoration. : EASTER
85
Soft drink ingredient. : COLA
86
Severe critic. : SLATER
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Web of a duck's foot. : PALAMA
88
Type of poetry. : ADONIC
89
Reduce taxation. : DERATE
92
Entrances. : ADITS
93
Magic being. : GENIE
94
Military decoration. : ORDER
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Prevent. : AVERT
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Famous bridge at St. Louis. : EADS
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Where Trinity College is. : EIRE
102
Polynesian god. : TANE
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Sinecure: Slang. : SNAP

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 37 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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