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P. Joseph Lamanna
P. Joseph Lamanna

GLOBAL GLEANINGS

New York Times, Sunday, January 6, 1946

73-Across : Head of Army Ground Forces.

Author:
P. J. Lamanna
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 172, Blocks: 82, Avg Word Len: 5.20, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 662 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 159, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 76
P. Joseph Lamanna has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
P. J. Lamanna is an alias for P. Joseph Lamanna.
David Steinberg notes:

In 26-Down clue, added period after "Secy."

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© 1946, The New York TimesNo. 204
Across
1
Smokers. : STAGS
6
Capital of Communist China. : YENAN
11
Suit. : BEFIT
16
Transferrer. : CEDER
21
Babrius versified his fables, date unknown. : AESOP
22
Town in N. E. Italy, visited by Browning, 1834. : ASOLO
23
Pointless. : INANE
24
Body of Moslem scholars. : ULEMA
25
Strewed. : BESPRINKLED
27
Articles of slow sale in market. : DRUGS
28
Enchanting. : MAGIC
29
___ Darya, 1,450 mile river to Lake Aral. : AMU
30
Country boy, to an urbanite. : YOKEL
31
Where natives are in revolt. : INDONESIA
34
Expect. : ASK
35
Verne's submarine captain. : NEMO
37
Network of hidden forces: Colloq. : WIRES
39
Anguiform creatures. : EELS
40
White lead. : CERUSE
42
People in Balkans. : GRECIANS
44
River on which Canton lies. : PEARL
46
.01 krone. : ORE
48
Sprang down. : ALIT
49
Trace. : TANG
50
Drives in by light blows. : TAMPS
51
Charge. : ONUS
52
Prunus spinosa. : SLOE
53
Haunt. : OBSESS
56
Sharp edge in moldings. : ARRIS
57
Full of juice. : LUSH
58
Stand on edge. : UPEND
59
Kind of raccoon. : COATI
60
Munitions minister on trial in Nuremberg. : SPEER
61
Palace in Rome. : LATERAN
63
Aquiline, piscivorous birds. : ERNS
64
Units of illumination. : PHOTS
65
Color, tinge: Poet. : TINCT
66
Exclaim simultaneously. : CHORUS
71
Faintly slow, in music: Abbr. : AND
72
Refuge for ships at anchor. : ROAD
73
Head of Army Ground Forces. : DEVERS
74
Rhythmical. : CADENT
75
Redundancy. : NIMIETY
77
The literati. : CLERISY
79
Tend. : CONDUCE
80
Lake, source of the Mississippi. : ITASCA
81
Signer of Locarno Pact, 1925. : BRIAND
82
Deep orange-red chalcedony. : SARD
83
Part of Italy. : TOE
84
Son of Anchises. : AENEAS
85
River on which Soissons lies. : AISNE
86
Constrained to go along. : HALED
88
Shard. : CHIP
89
Contemptible little things. : SHRIMPS
91
Participant in talks at Moscow. : BEVIN
92
Racing boat. : SHELL
93
Wanting in some regard. : SCANT
97
Where chalets are. : ALPS
98
Graduated tube for chemists. : BURET
99
Mean. : COARSE
100
Japanese Foreign Minister, Dec. 7, 1941. : TOGO
101
Nobel Prize winner who worked on atomic bomb. : UREY
102
Craze. : FUROR
103
Bungle. : MUFF
104
Anything unique: Slang. : ONER
105
Lug. : EAR
106
Recent Premier of Italy. : PARRI
107
Throve. : BATTENED
111
Remove tacks from. : UNNAIL
113
Algonquian red men. : SACS
114
Count Sforza. : CARLO
116
Latvian seaport. : RIGA
117
Work at lace. : TAT
118
Surmount: Colloq. : NEGOTIATE
122
Life of the party: Slang. : CUTUP
124
Sea: French. : MER
125
Author of "The Waste Land," 1922. : ELIOT
127
Islands in Gulf of Bothnia. : ALAND
128
Long-winged tireless flier of marine habitat. : FRIGATEBIRD
131
Allay. : SLAKE
132
Clump of trees in a prairie. : MOTTE
133
Adapts in mood. : TUNES
134
Plexuses. : RETIA
135
Tenth president, 1841-45. : TYLER
136
Importune. : PRESS
137
Put in possession: Law. : SEISE
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Capital of Tata republic. : KAZAN
Down
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Seaport on Pulau Weh, island off N. Sumatra. : SABANG
2
Producer. : TEEMER
3
Appropriate. : ASSUME
4
Cartoonist's pachyderm. : GOP
5
Brisk. : SPRY
6
Pulling. : YANKING
7
Ridges of sandy drift. : ESKERS
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___ prosequi. : NOLLE
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" ... no more cakes and ___?" Twelfth Night. : ALE
10
Knots. : NODI
11
Bridge players. : BIDDERS
12
Record. : ENROLL
13
Rural deities. : FAUNS
14
Author of "Lay Thoughts of a Dean." : INGE
15
Angel Clare's bride. : TESS
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Ancient city in S W Italy. : CUMAE
17
Hightest note in Guido's scale. : ELA
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President of Provisional Govt. of France. : DEGAULLE
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Act of sending forth. : EMISSION
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Made a hubbub. : RACKETED
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Dwellers in Secy. Wallace's home State. : IOWANS
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Poles of team-drawn vehicles. : NEAPS
33
Frappes. : ICES
36
Parts of sonnets. : OCTETS
38
Duplicates. : SPARES
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Utter gratingly. : RASP
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Capital of Moldavia. : IASI
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Arabian ruler. : EMIR
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Assaults. : ONSETS
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Area which the French urge be internationalized. : RUHR
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Allowance to buyers, in commerce. : TRET
51
Shout of alarm. : OUTCRY
53
Vast part of lands craved by Jap war lords. : OCEANIA
54
Valuable ore of copper. : BORNITE
55
Somniferous genie. : SANDMAN
56
Footless. : APOD
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Strips of roadway. : LANES
58
Let go. : UNHAND
60
Light carriage: Colloq. : SHAY
61
Ashy gray. : LIVID
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Correspond. : ACCORD
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Salt used in making glass. : POTASH
65
Coat with alloy of tin and lead. : TERNE
67
Droll. : ODD
68
Vice president of United Automobile Workers. : REUTHER
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Straightens out. : UNCOILS
70
___ jack. : STEEPLE
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Mold afresh. : RECAST
73
Chiefs, as of diplomatic corps. : DEANS
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Bay off S E Honshu. : ISE
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Frizzly. : CRIMPY
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Speaks falteringly. : LISPS
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Port in N. France, on Orne River. : CAEN
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That which lades out water. : BAILER
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Cleave. : SLIT
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Illustrious. : HEROIC
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Protest. : AVER
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Any of various beetles. : CHAFER
90
___ avis. : RARA
91
Vice-President, 1801-05. : BURR
92
Unresistant. : SOFT
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Firmest. : STOUTEST
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Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee. : CONNALLY
95
Of a representative. : AGENTIAL
96
Miss Bayes. : NORA
98
Breach. : BURST
99
Paper design. : CUTOUT
101
700-mile river, tributary of the Ubangi. : UELE
102
Fronts. : FACADES
103
Digestive enzyme. : MALTASE
106
What Churchill does in leisure time. : PAINTS
107
City of Bridges, Belgium. : BRUGES
108
New Chief of Naval Operations. : NIMITZ
109
Woman adviser. : EGERIA
110
Trojan: Shakespeare. : DARDAN
112
Mutual: Prefix. : INTER
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Department that Hurley criticized. : STATE
115
Drupelets. : ACINI
119
Mrs. Sairey ___, nurse in "Martin Chuzzlewit." : GAMP
120
Genus of swans. : OLOR
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Newts. : EFTS
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Cocky. : PERK
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About 1 1/3 quarts in Turkey. : OKE
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Wish undone. : RUE
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Miss Lillie. : BEA

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 69 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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