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W. E. Jones
W. E. Jones

ANTHOLOGY

New York Times, Sunday, November 17, 1957

97-Across : Fortification ditch.

Author:
W. E. Jones
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 73, Avg Word Len: 5.26, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 554 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 128, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 23
W. E. Jones has 95 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 3,064
Across
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Salten story. : BAMBI
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Wind around. : COIL
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Inspires reverence. : AWES
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___ Park. : ESTES
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Wild sheep. : URIAL
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Spanish jar. : OLLA
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Learning. : LORE
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Hester Prynne's daughter. : PEARL
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Shellfish. : NACRE
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Kipling character. : WEEWILLIEWINKIE
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Famous Longchamp race. : GRANDPRIX
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The night club set. : CAFESOCIETY
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Garden greens: Dial. : SASS
31
Tributary of the Rhone. : AIN
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Short form of a preposition. : PON
33
Maxim. : SAW
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"The Loved ___." : ONES
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Fodder plant. : TARE
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Napoleonic battleground. : JENA
38
Defense: Ger. : WEHR
40
Additional. : SECOND
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When Solomon Grundy was christened. : TUESDAY
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Manchurian port. : DAIREN
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Public. : OVERT
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Samite. : SILK
52
Very wet. : ASOP
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Scarf. : STOLE
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Terra ___. : FIRMA
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United: Fr. : UNIE
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Household goods. : LINEN
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Vegetables. : YAMS
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Wrangled. : ALTERCATED
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Greek name for Ezra. : ESDRAS
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Timetable abbreviation. : DST
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Air wells. : AREAS
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"In His ___." : STEPS
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Middle of the 6th C. : DLI
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Brand of Cain. : STIGMA
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Hi-fi fan. : AUDIOPHILE
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Rajah's wife. : RANI
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Ballet master of the Met. : SOLOV
82
Greek letters. : PSIS
83
Kind of wave. : TIDAL
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Vulcan's home. : AETNA
86
"Strange Interlude" character. : NINA
87
Flat-bottomed boat. : PUNT
88
Oleoresin. : ELEMI
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Real name of the Barrymores. : BLYTHE
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Parson in "Ghosts." : MANDERS
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Emporia. : STORES
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Pinnae. : EARS
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Slangily stylish. : TONY
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Fortification ditch. : FOSS
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Veteran actor. : LAHR
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Two ___ time. : ATA
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Almighty. : GOD
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Pronoun. : HER
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1/6 drachma. : OBOL
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Means of intramural transit. : ELEVATORCAR
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Myriapod. : CENTIPEDE
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Character in "Wuthering Heights." : HARETONEARNSHAW
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Apparition. : SHADE
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Only. : ALONE
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Playwright Bagnold. : ENID
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Scarlett's home. : TARA
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Headdress. : MITER
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Finnish poems. : RUNES
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Sound. : SANE
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Girl in an old song. : KATY
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Very timid. : SCARY
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Stoppers. : BUNGS
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Cockatoo. : ARARA
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Heat-resistant minerals. : MICAS
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Freelance aviator. : BARNSTORMER
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"___ Three Lives." : ILED
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Shell used as money in Africa. : COWRIE
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Liquid glyceride. : OLEIN
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Holly. : ILEX
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Specialty of the Medes and Persians. : LAW
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Minstrel in "Ivanhoe." : ALLANADALE
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Jack London character. : WOLF
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Relatives of Hiawatha. : ERIES
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Crossruff. : SEESAW
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Majestic. : EPIC
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Status of an old employe. : SENIORITY
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Caught. : TAKEN
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Descendant of a son of Gad. : ERITE
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Weavers' reeds. : SLEYS
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Church images. : ICONS
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Made a big hit with: Slang. : WOWED
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"Bearded like the ___ ... " : PARD
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Looked slyly. : PEEKED
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Star of first magnitude. : ANTARES
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She plays Eliza. : JULIE
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Holds for use. : HAS
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Chesterfield. : SOFA
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Bale, in poetry. : EVIL
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Definite fact. : CERTAINTY
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Shading. : TINT
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Without any changes. : ASIS
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Farther: Poet. : YOND
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Seller of wares to motorists. : ROADSIDER
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Symbols of New England. : ELMS
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Retreat. : NEST
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Forceful argument. : SUASION
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Remain. : PERSIST
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Organization started in 1949. : NATO
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Sacred animals of Egypt. : CATS
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Musical groups. : SEPTETS
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Unruffled. : PHILOSOPHIC
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Woolen cloth. : DRAB
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Biblical Levite. : LAEL
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Light: Slang. : GLIM
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West African monkey. : MONA
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Leaders of the literati. : AVANTGARDE
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Affix. : APPEND
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Loan shark's levy. : USURY
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Discordant sounds. : DINS
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Cloth akin to samite. : LAME
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Site of Greek Olympics. : ELIS
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Come between. : INTERVENE
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Interjection. : AHA
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Muse with a lyre. : ERATO
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Town near Utrecht. : DOORN
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Kind. : SORT
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Boundary marks. : STONES
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Part of Boston's Back Bay. : FENWAY
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Composer of operettas. : LEHAR
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Primitive Babylonian diety. : ALALU
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Wading bird. : HERON
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Lists. : ARENA
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"The ___ of Midlothian." : HEART
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Blessed: Lat. : BEATA
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More unusual. : ODDER
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Wary: Colloq. : LEERY
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Noun suffixes. : ATES
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Byron poem. : CAIN
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Kind of rolled tea. : CHAA
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Cults. : ISMS
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Broker's abbreviation. : STK

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8 unique to this puzzle, 15 debuted here and reused later, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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