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Charles Cross
Charles Cross

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New York Times, Sunday, February 10, 1946

61-Across : Hard, close-grained wood.

Author:
C. L. Cross
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 172, Blocks: 82, Avg Word Len: 5.20, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 673 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 155, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 71 Grid has duplicate clues.
Charles Cross has 25 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
C. L. Cross is an alias for Charles Cross.
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© 1946, The New York TimesNo. 209
Across
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Ex-Senator, now Supreme Court justice. : BLACK
6
Seaport in W Yugoslavia. : SPLIT
11
Jap war criminal. : HOMMA
16
Floats. : WAFTS
21
Musical show. : REVUE
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Native of New Zealand. : MAORI
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Potpourris. : OLIOS
24
Consummate. : IDEAL
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Fatimid title. : EMEER
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Advocates of self-government. : AUTONOMISTS
28
Blackmore heroine, 1869. : LORNA
29
Rostov's river. : DON
30
City having four Allied zones. : BERLIN
32
Steel workers. : RIVETERS
34
A drop: Abbr. : MIN
35
Italian news agency. : ANSA
37
Eroded. : ATE
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Frolics. : SPREES
40
Instrumentalist on strings. : VIOLIST
42
Departs: Slang. : MOSEYS
45
Nazi in dock in Nuremberg. : HESS
46
Reddish red-yellow. : HENNA
47
Players on diamond. : BASEMEN
50
Gist. : HEART
52
Poet. : BARD
53
Dermal spot. : POCK
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Nonethical. : AMORAL
58
Furzy. : GORSY
59
Dances in Sandwich Islands. : HULAS
60
Treaty port on Yangtze. : WUHU
61
Hard, close-grained wood. : BIRCH
62
Girl's name. : DIANE
63
Break in two. : BURST
64
More subtle. : FINER
65
Illegible. : UNREADABLE
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Selene. : LUNA
68
Made manifest. : EVINCED
70
Defunct Nazi "labor leader." : LEY
71
Bones. : RIBS
72
Harvard president, atomic adviser to Byrnes in Moscow. : CONANT
74
Instigators. : EGGERS
75
S. S. Van Dine's Mr. Vance. : PHILO
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Closed cockpit. : CABIN
78
Small brooks. : RILLS
80
Ferryman on the Styx. : CHARON
83
Golfer voted top male athlete, 1945. : NELSON
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Greek letter. : BETA
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Bunk. : ROT
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Pleasureful. : HEDONIC
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Sediment. : LEES
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Austerity. : SEVERENESS
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Show feeling: Colloq. : EMOTE
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Noted physician-teacher (1849-1919). : OSLER
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One who folios. : PAGER
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Weaverbird. : MUNIA
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British Ambassador to U. S. : KERR
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Prosperous Russian farmer. : KULAK
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Velocipedes: Colloq. : BIKES
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Caresser. : PETTER
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Tolstoy heroine. : ANNA
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Obligation. : ONUS
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750 mi. river, to Gulf of Siam. : MENAM
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Easy gaits. : CANTERS
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Container. : CRATE
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Dwindle rapidly. : MELT
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Stepped over. : STRODE
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Tractable. : DUCTILE
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Musical movements. : RONDOS
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What the Big Inch carried. : OIL
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Gull. : DUPE
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Henri Spaak is its president. : UNO
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City in Ohio. : MARIETTA
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President of United Automobile Workers. : THOMAS
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Office of Cardinal. : HAT
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Edible gastric tissue. : TRIPE
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Cluster. : AGGLOMERATE
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Chairman of Senate Naval Affairs Committee. : WALSH
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Inflexibility. : RIGOR
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Promising person: Slang. : COMER
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Roman dictator B. C. 138-78. : SULLA
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Wane. : ABATE
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Girl's name. : AGNES
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Receptacles. : TRAYS
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Dutch painter (1626-79). : STEEN
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Blunder: Slang. : BONER
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Town in S. Netherlands. : BREDA
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Source of vitamin C. : LEMON
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Rosaceous herb. : AVENS
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Intimation. : CUE
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Vertical part of British gutter. : KERB
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Make spruce. : SMARTEN
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U. S. representative on Allied Reparations Commission. : PAULEY
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French novelist (1850-1923). : LOTI
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Manacles. : IRONS
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Its atomic weight is 118.70. : TIN
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Most intimate. : HOMIEST
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Relish for salad. : OLIVES
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Agreements. : MISES
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American social reformer (1793-1880). : MOTT
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Affirm. : ASSEVERATE
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President of General Motors. : WILSON
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Pother. : ADO
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Italian physicist, worked on atomic bomb. : FERMI
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Ruined city in Nile delta. : TANIS
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Glance. : SLANT
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Planetarium. : ORRERY
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Frame for canvas. : EASEL
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Outer layers. : RINDS
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Mulct. : AMERCE
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Aspect. : PHASE
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Plovers with slow, irregular flight. : LAPWINGS
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City on the Missouri. : OMAHA
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Becomes less deep. : SHOALS
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Painter of "Flute Player." : HALS
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Gum-yielding tree. : BABUL
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Organic compound. : AMINE
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Contemptible. : SORRY
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Sea eagle. : ERNE
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Blizzard on Asiatic steppes. : BURAN
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Snow leopard. : OUNCE
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Gladden. : CHEER
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Moslems living in Middle East. : KURDS
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English historian (1737-94). : GIBBON
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Province, its capital Changsha. : HUNAN
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Lower house of Oireachtas. : DAIL
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Russian novelist, Nobel Prize winner 1933. : BUNIN
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Chancellor of Austria. : FIGL
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River in Albania. : DRINI
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Timber wolves. : LOBOS
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Of the soft palate. : VELAR
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Maker of boxes. : CASER
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City on the Moselle. : TREVES
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Lengthen in time. : PROTRACT
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Whetstone. : HONE
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Golfer's club. : CLEEK
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Roman highway. : ITER
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Soviet committee. : CHEKA
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Robust chaps. : HEMEN
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Enrich. : ADORN
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Athenai is its capital. : ELLAS
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Decks in sparklers. : BEGEMS
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In France, annual income. : RENTE
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American dogwood. : OSIER
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Bulgarian kings. : TSARS
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Frustrate. : COUNTERACT
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Turkey's Foreign Minister. : SAKA
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Rectify. : EMEND
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Gathered seeds. : NUTTED
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Swing about fixed point. : SLUE
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Pied. : PINTO
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Living model for Teddy bear. : KOALA
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Grandmother. : BELDAM
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City in E. central Kansas. : PAOLA
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Counselors. : MENTORS
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Native of Russian chersonese. : CRIMEAN
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Mediocre poets. : RIMERS
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Heterogeneous. : MOTLEY
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Blow horn gently. : TOOTLE
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President of Brazil. : DUTRA
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Strip of gear, as a ship. : UNRIG
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___ of vantage. : COIGN
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Type of compound fruit: Bot. : REGMA
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Swagger. : STRUT
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Lancer in Prussian armies. : UHLAN
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Soft confection. : PASTE
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Upper regions of space. : ETHER
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___ Stravinsky. : IGOR
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Writer of story of Philip Nolan. : HALE
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Mop. : SWAB
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John Allan's protégé. : POE
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Presidential initial. : ESS
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Turku. : ABO

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 64 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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