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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

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New York Times, Sunday, January 31, 1943

75-Across : Step up the RPM of plane motors.

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 170, Blocks: 80, Avg Word Len: 5.28, Missing: { J Q W }, Scrabble score: 647 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 148, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 116
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

In 90-Across clue, added slash to indicate line break in quote.

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© 1943, The New York TimesNo. 51
Across
1
Pound with block-busters. : BOMBARD
8
Germans. : TEUTONS
15
Without error. : RIGHTLY
22
Cold-shoulderer. : AVOIDER
23
French Mediterranean colony. : ALGERIA
24
Fruit like the raspberry. : ETAERIO
25
Balcony. : TERRACE
26
Native under Windsor. : BAHAMAN
27
Judy of the movies. : GARLAND
28
Walked. : TROD
29
Forbidden. : TABU
31
Ship's book. : LOG
32
Dance: Fr. : BAL
33
Born. : NEE
34
Milk. : LAC
35
Black rhinoceroses. : BORELES
38
Terse. : LACONIC
41
Nickname of sententious President. : CAL
42
Artist in acid. : ETCHER
44
Repository. : SAFE
45
Euro-Asiatic range. : URAL
46
Charge. : ALLEGE
48
Grease again. : REOIL
49
"My dear, my ___ half."—Sir P. Sidney. : BETTER
51
Eheu! : ALAS
53
Furthered. : AIDED
54
Exhausted. : EFFETE
56
Fix prices. : PEG
58
Close, friendly: Fr. : INTIME
60
Scorns. : DISDAINS
63
French ballet painter. : DEGAS
65
Rookie flier. : DODO
66
Commendation with the palm. : PAT
69
Pindaric poem. : ODE
70
India's Lakshmi, beauty's goddess. : SRI
71
Pertaining to a standard. : MODULAR
73
Closely woven cotton fabric. : PERCALE
75
Step up the RPM of plane motors. : REV
76
Horse's rope. : TETHER
78
Bivalve mollusks. : LEDAS
80
Depth charge. : ASHCAN
81
River nymph. : NAIS
83
Salient. : OUTSTANDING
86
Directions for gunners. : AIMS
87
Brighten. : ILLUME
90
"A merry ___ goes all the day,/Your sad tires in a mile-a."—Winter's Tale. : HEART
91
Prairies of South America. : LLANOS
94
Stone money of Island of Yap. : FEI
95
Canadian Arctic bay. : ELLIOTT
97
Drenches. : SLUICES
99
Mouths: Latin. : ORA
100
Simplified Esperanto. : IDO
101
Hardy grain. : RYE
102
Boisterous. : LOUD
104
Search for diligently. : SCOUR
105
Fighter on many fronts. : AMERICAN
107
Fusilladed with bullets. : GUNNED
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Abstract being. : ENS
110
Viragoes. : SCOLDS
111
Pertaining to Mohammedan mysticism. : SUFIC
114
Distant. : AFAR
116
Russian man of Steel. : STALIN
118
Leningrad's lake. : ILMEN
122
Deck ring for a davit. : CRANCE
124
Discoverer of Greenland. : ERIC
126
Geraint's wife. : ENID
127
Think but little of (with at). : SNEEZE
128
The Bluff King. : HAL
129
Tool manufacturer. : AXMAKER
131
Emit light. : RADIATE
133
Allow. : LET
134
Tierra del Fuego Indian. : ONA
135
Islet. : AIT
136
Came upon. : MET
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Refrigerant. : ICER
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Tempo: Music. : TAKT
140
Gaunt American hero. : LINCOLN
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Greek letter. : EPSILON
146
Minister. : DOMINIE
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Imperial Roman female. : AUGUSTA
149
Curbing a horse. : BITTING
150
One who comes forth. : EMERGER
151
Comes out of water. : EMERSES
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In addition to. : BESIDES
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Pompano-like fishes. : SAURELS
Down
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Fighter. : BATTLER
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Glutted one's self. : OVERATE
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African colony of France. : MOROCCO
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Born flier. : BIRD
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Girl's name. : ADA
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Parish clergyman. : RECTOR
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"In a ___-nighted December."—Keats. : DREAR
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Arrange methodically. : TABULATE
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Anything high-flown. : ELA
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Redskin grunt. : UGH
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Wild duck. : TEAL
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Gilt metal. : ORMOLU
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Mighty cataract. : NIAGARA
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Saint: Span. : SAN
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Lear's second daughter. : REGAN
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Mussolini's land. : ITALIA
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Mississippi pike. : GAR
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Norse Queen of Underworld. : HEL
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Enraptured. : TRANCED
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Descent. : LINEAGE
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Sang in the Alps. : YODELED
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Attacks. : BESETS
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Stage comedienne. : BOLAND
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Seaport where A. E. F. has landed. : BELFAST
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Newt. : EFT
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Leaked through. : SEEPED
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Capital of Valle department, Colombia. : CALI
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Noisy cries. : CLAMORS
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Sped to. : HIED
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Be situated. : LIE
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Hitler's jackal. : BENITO
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Army rules. : REGULATIONS
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Cessation. : STOP
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"Baptism of ___"—Napoleon III. : FIRE
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Greek father of Medicine. : GALEN
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Concept. : IDEA
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German aircraft works. : DORNIER
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Perfectly. : IDEALLY
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City on the Guadalquivir River. : SEVILLE
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Fins. : DORSALS
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Equine-leather maker. : SADDLER
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Vastest war theatre. : PACIFIC
67
Tree-lined walk. : ALAMEDA
68
State of strain. : TENSION
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Deals out. : METES
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Vital transportation equipment. : RAILS
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Chinese tea. : CHA
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Derogatory grunt. : HUH
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Snow: Scot. : SNA
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___ generis. : SUI
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Temporary peace. : TRUCE
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Pin of a sundial. : GNOMON
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Pertaining to the Spice Islands. : MOLUCCA
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British school. : ETON
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Embattled Russian city. : OREL
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Former Norwegian export to U. S. : SARDINE
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Fish delicacy. : TUNA
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General who died at Little Big Horn. : CUSTER
103
Hitler's tête à tête. : DEFEAT
105
Sourish. : ACIDIC
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Archipelago unit. : ISLE
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Drink to be made no more. : GIN
108
Blacked out. : DARK
110
Trombone manoeuvres. : SLIDINGS
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Roman schools. : SCHOLAE
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Radioactive element. : URANIUM
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Spanish political party under Franco. : FALANGE
115
Oxhide strap of South Africa. : RIEMPIE
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Santa ___, of the Alamo. : ANA
119
Medley. : MELANGE
120
Prophetical book of Old Testament. : EZEKIEL
121
Fishermen. : NETTERS
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Uplifted: Fr. : EXALTE
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Riders of the waves. : CRESTS
127
Framework of a red corpuscle. : STROMA
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Low caste watchmen: India. : MINAS
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Any Roman building. : AEDES
137
Buckwheat tree. : TITI
139
Tear off: Scot. : TIRR
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Mongrel. : CUR
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Dutch commune in Brabant. : OSS
143
Wane. : EBB
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Eye shade. : LID
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"___ Country, ___ Constitution, ___ Destiny." : ONE
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An herb, spicknel. : MEU

Answer summary:
13 unique to this puzzle, 103 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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