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Charles E. Gersch
Charles E. Gersch

New York Times, Wednesday, January 23, 1963

56-Across : Gov. Rockefeller's middle name.

Author:
Charles Gersch
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { B F J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 2, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Charles E. Gersch has 31 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 17 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Charles Gersch is an alias for Charles E. Gersch.
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© 1963, The New York TimesNo. 4,934
Across
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Cut with short strokes. : SNIP
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Well-known archer. : CUPID
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Bouquet. : ODOR
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Dorothy's dog. : TOTO
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Popeye's girl. : OLIVE
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Part of a famous intersection. : VINE
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Single thing. : UNIT
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Vladimir Ulianov. : LENIN
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The women. : EVES
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Square dance movement. : DOSADOS
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Chomo-lungma, to the Tibetans. : EVEREST
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Ordinal suffixes. : THS
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Former dwellers at 10 Downing Street. : EDENS
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Musical version of "Liliom." : CAROUSEL
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Go over again: Colloq. : REHASH
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She-bear: Sp. : OSA
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Something, in Spain. : ALGO
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Italian fortress. : ROCCA
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Originally, "Arrangement in Grey and Black." : WHISTLERSMOTHER
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Solitary one. : LONER
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Song: Prefix. : MELO
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Noun suffix. : ENT
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Hydrocarbon used in plastics. : STYROL
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Pine or spruce. : CONETREE
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Francesca's lover. : PAOLO
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State: Abbr. : ALA
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Cajole. : WHEEDLE
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Gov. Rockefeller's middle name. : ALDRICH
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Come to be duly worthy of. : EARN
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Grand Duke of Moscow, 14th cen. : IVANI
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Contemporary of Maupassant. : ZOLA
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Time period, in TV lingo. : SLOT
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U. S. satellite. : TIROS
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Indigo. : ANIL
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Flip. : TOSS
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Manner of sitting, in yoga. : ASANA
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Ancient Greek temple. : NAOS
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Scantling. : STUD
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Mother's admonition. : NONO
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"___ not raining rain to me ... " : ITIS
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Shape of an ocarina. : POTATO
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Of great size. : COLOSSAL
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Diminutive suffixes. : ULES
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Fraternity symbol. : PIN
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Covered with a certain plant. : IVIED
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Western metropolis. : DENVER
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Went beyond the target. : OVERSHOT
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Olympic event. : DIVE
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Certain small bills. : ONES
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Remainder. : REST
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Roderick, in Scott poem. : DHU
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January, in Madrid. : ENERO
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Domenico Teotocopulo. : ELGRECO
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Hoods. : COWLS
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"___ in the Dark." : ASHOT
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One kind of day. : RAINY
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Type of school: Abbr. : ELEM
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Sufferer. : ACHER
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Locale. : SCENE
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Writer of Westerns. : HARTE
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One-time Christiana. : OSLO
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Herpetologist's concern. : SERPENTS
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Anc. region of Asia Minor (with "the"). : TROAD
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Wife of Francesco del Giocondo. : MONALISA
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Alias Dolores Haze. : LOLITA
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Antiquity: Archaic. : ELD
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Lord Greystoke. : TARZAN
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Teen-age garb. : LEVIS
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Wild ___. : WEST
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Angelic ring. : HALO
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See 5 Across. : EROS
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Shortly. : ANON
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Hebrides isle. : IONA
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History's muse. : CLIO
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Famous Haarlem painter. : HALS
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Macaw. : ARA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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