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Israel Gitter
Israel Gitter

New York Times, Saturday, August 7, 1954

Author:
Israel Gitter
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.25, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10, Grid flow: 36.1 Grid has duplicate clues.
Israel Gitter has 34 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,866
Across
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Burnoose wearer. : ARAB
5
Recordings. : TAPES
10
A type: Abbr. : ITAL
14
Varnish for airplanes. : DOPE
15
Sultan's decree. : IRADE
16
Singer Ponselle. : ROSA
17
Colorful group in any capital. : DIPLOMATICCORPS
20
Ubiquitous. : ALLOVER
21
Conveyance. : TRANSIT
22
Satan's work. : EVIL
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Strong, brave and noble. : HEROIC
24
Wrong side up. : FACEDOWN
28
"High ___." : TOR
29
Euphemistic oath. : EGAD
30
Northern sea duck. : COOT
32
Bright lights. : NEONS
36
Go astray. : ERR
37
Divided country. : KOREA
39
___ media, (middle way). : VIA
40
Old-fashioned. : DATED
43
Spanish painter. : DALI
44
Famous English Quaker. : PENN
45
Home: Abbr. : RES
47
Gave asylum to. : HARBORED
49
Forward: Italian. : AVANTI
52
Object of criticism. : BUTT
53
Brigadier general's insigne. : ONESTAR
54
Distance within which voices can be heard. : EARSHOT
57
Part of a planetarium. : CELESTIALSPHERE
59
Bull: Comb. form. : TAUR
60
City official of early Rome. : EDILE
61
Gemsbok. : ORYX
62
Present ___. : ARMS
63
Arched roofs. : DOMES
64
Aptitude ___. : TEST
Down
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River in Italy. : ADDA
2
Displease. : ROIL
3
Something that can be upset. : APPLECART
4
Second word of the marriage ceremony. : BELOVED
5
Part of a bank vault. : TIMELOCK
6
Sandarac tree. : ARAR
7
Suitably. : PAT
8
Girl's name. : EDITH
9
Top ___. : SECRET
10
Mesabi's output. : IRONORE
11
Bodily trunks. : TORSI
12
Meat juice jelly. : ASPIC
13
Shoe factory item. : LAST
18
Roman poet. : OVID
19
Actress Leslie. : CARON
24
Dairy farm necessity. : FEED
25
Taj Mahal's locale. : AGRA
26
Actress Peggy. : WOOD
27
Girl's name. : NORAH
31
Tissue: Anat. : TELA
33
Popular song of 1917. : OVERTHERE
34
Redlegs or Indians. : NINE
35
Famous literary pen name. : SAND
38
Factors in U. S. global strategy. : AIRBASES
41
Blackboard equipment. : ERASERS
42
Marks on enameled surfaces. : DENTS
44
Haphazard try. : POTSHOT
46
Said. : STATED
48
___ gun. : BURP
49
Close: Poet. : ANEAR
50
Soft palate. : VELUM
51
Part of the eye: Comb. form. : IRIDO
53
Numerical combining form. : OCTA
54
French pronoun. : ELLE
55
Adjective suffixes. : ORYS
56
Theme. : TEXT
58
Purpose. : AIM

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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