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Thomas Meekin
Thomas Meekin

MISCELLANY

New York Times, Sunday, October 26, 1958

28-Across : Conquerors of K2.

Author:
Thomas Meekin
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 160, Blocks: 79, Avg Word Len: 5.63, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 641 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 154, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 20
Thomas Meekin has 202 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,407
Across
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Denouement: Colloq. : PAYOFF
7
Slayer of Cock Robin. : SPARROW
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Giant in "Tom Thumb." : GRUMBO
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Its capital is Tirana. : ALBANIA
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Star role. : HEROINE
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Reticence. : RESERVE
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Fortress structures. : TURRETS
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Hidden; secret. : ARCANAL
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Thoroughfares. : AVENUES
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"You'll be ___, my son!" : AMAN
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Conquerors of K2. : ITALIANS
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Shed for animals. : COTE
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Stiletto. : DIRK
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Pooh! : BAH
34
Mournful sound. : KNELL
35
Carmen, for example. : SENORITA
38
Observe. : SEE
39
Yawning. : AGAPE
41
Biblical mother-in-law. : NAOMI
44
Japanese apricots. : UMES
45
Senator from Delaware. : FREAR
47
Having a certain flavor. : LEMONY
49
Sudden, headlong flights. : STAMPEDES
52
Quadrangles. : COURTS
53
Betelgeuse. : STAR
55
Figures of speech. : SIMILES
56
Red planet. : MARS
57
Contents of a wardrobe. : COSTUMES
61
___ veiling. : NUNS
62
Churchly caps. : BIRETTAS
66
King's master. : ACE
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Hockey goal. : CAGE
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Usage. : TREATMENT
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Procession. : LINE
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Tall chimney. : STACK
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Removes the decks of a ship. : RAZEES
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Mr. Wagner of baseball fame. : HONUS
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Vergil's Discordia. : ERIS
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One of the Joneses. : CASEY
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Large antelope. : ELAND
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Former British coin. : GROAT
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Realm of Thespis. : DRAMA
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Before long. : ANON
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County in New Mexico. : OTERO
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Capital of South Dakota. : PIERRE
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Moslem world. : ISLAM
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Julia ___ Grant. : DENT
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Newcomers. : STRANGERS
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Contemporaries of the Moabites. : EMIM
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Aisle: Obs. : ELE
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Distillations. : ESSENCES
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Settlement in Greenland. : ETAH
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Discernment. : SAGENESS
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Course. : ROAD
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Ruined. : DONEFOR
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Eminence. : NOTE
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Fireball. : METEOR
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Abode of Bret Harte's "Outcasts." : POKERFLAT
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Past and present. : TENSES
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Minced oaths. : EGADS
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Dingle. : DALE
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Moves gradually. : EDGES
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Queen: Fr. : REINE
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Decaliter: Abbr. : DAL
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Traders' pledges. : EARNESTS
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Shapes accurately. : TRUES
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Numerical prefix. : TRI
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Nautical term. : ALOW
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Fabrications. : LIES
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Detroit's hockey team. : REDWINGS
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San ___. : JUAN
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Ancestry. : LINEAGE
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Having the edge turned, as a wheel. : OVERRIM
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Pacify. : ASSUAGE
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Excellent. : STELLAR
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Suggested doubt to. : MISGAVE
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Stage direction. : REENTER
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Purls. : EDDIES
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Abyssinian bananas. : ENSETES
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Racers. : SNAKES
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Feathering. : PLUMAGE
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Lot's uncle. : ABRAHAM
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Tall tale. : YARN
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Individual. : ONE
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Coincide (with). : FITIN
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Cement. : FASTEN
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Small onions. : SHALLOTS
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Iolanthe, for example. : PERI
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Alms box. : ARCA
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Certain horses. : ROANS
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Wash lightly. : RINSE
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___ shoestring. : ONA
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Receives hospitably. : WELCOMES
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On the house. : GRATIS
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Face with stone. : REVET
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Worth. : USE
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Repair. : MEND
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Pugilist. : BRUISER
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Gorge. : OVEREAT
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Kettledrum. : ATABAL
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Subglacial drifts. : ESKERS
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Ah me! : ALAS
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Stibnite, siderite, etc. : ORES
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Where Pennyroyal Plateau is. : KENTUCKY
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Undraped. : NUDE
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"And I'll be in Scotland ___ ye." : AFORE
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Travel with haste. : POST
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Marquise de ___, consort of Louis XIV. : MAINTENON
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Imprisoned. : IMMURED
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Posse's quarry. : RUSTLERS
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Deified mortal of Hindu myth. : YAMA
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Ridgepole ___. : PINES
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Steber role. : ELSA
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Uncovered wagons. : CARTS
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Missed poignantly. : REGRETTED
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Revolutionary figure. : MINUTEMAN
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Range of the Sierra Nevada. : CASCADE
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Hydrocarbons. : OCTANES
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Christmastide, Epiphany, etc. : SEASONS
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Hunters in the Pribilofs. : SEALERS
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Great Hindu center. : BENARES
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Succession of notes, as a bird's song. : TIRALEE
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Fauna. : ANIMALS
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Hairy herbs. : SESAMES
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Beginning point. : THRESHOLD
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Wasteland. : MOOR
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Concentrated. : CENTERED
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Adriatic port of Yugoslavia. : ZARA
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Camelopard. : GIRAFFE
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Verses consisting of two feet. : DIMETERS
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Famed statuette. : OSCAR
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Become exhausted (with "out"). : PETER
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Diminutive of a man's name. : GENE
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"___ Rhythm." : IGOT
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Snare. : NOOSE
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River in England. : NENE
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In low spirits. : DOLESOME
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Weights of Turkey, Cyprus, etc. : OKES
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Syncopated melodies. : RAGTIMES
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Decorations. : MEDALS
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Liberté's companion. : EGALITE
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Having claws. : TALONED
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Sheet of glass. : PANE
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Arctic bird. : TERN
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Place. : SITUATE
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Infuriates. : ENRAGES
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Type of fisherman. : SEINER
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Laundry appliances. : DRIERS
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Makes superficially palatable. : SUGARS
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Seaweeds. : ALGAE
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Lock. : TRESS
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Twilled fabric. : SERGE
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Big Bertha's birthplace. : ESSEN
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Unite closely. : WELD
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Mild expletive. : DRAT
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Marry a woman. : WIVE
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Flat-bottomed boat. : JUNK
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___ Baba. : ALI
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Sauterne. : VIN
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Bounding main. : SEA

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5 unique to this puzzle, 15 debuted here and reused later, 11 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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