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Harold T. Bers
Harold T. Bers

New York Times, Tuesday, February 13, 1951

20-Across : Effervescer.

Author:
Harold T. Bers
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 19
Harold T. Bers has 138 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1951, The New York TimesNo. 604
Across
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Potential playhouse. : BARN
5
Old Greek coins. : OBOLS
10
Danny Kaye type of singing. : SCAT
14
Vaudeville part of a minstrel show. : OLIO
15
Money's worth. : VALUE
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Docile. : TAME
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Novelist who limned the Twenties. : FITZGERALD
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Religious image. : IKON
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Effervescer. : FIZZER
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Gay young ladies of the Twenties. : FLAPPERS
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Scandinavian man's name. : LARS
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Short stalk. : STIPE
26
Sports idol of the Twenties. : BABERUTH
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Entwine. : ENLACE
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Freud subject. : EGO
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Murdered. : SLAIN
36
Ketone derivative. : KETAL
37
Ecclesiastical robes. : ALBS
39
Clothe. : ENDOW
41
Sandy tract in Britain. : DENE
42
Only Finland paid them, after World War I. : DEBTS
44
Sawfish's saw. : SERRA
46
Sinbad's big bird. : ROC
47
Short for a kind of printing plate. : STEREO
49
Magazine edited by Mencken and Nathan, 1914-24. : SMARTSET
51
First cousin of a cruller: Colloq. : DONUT
53
The Thin Man's dog. : ASTA
54
Paavo Nurmi and Charlie Paddock. : ATHLETES
57
Capital of Albania. : TIRANA
61
Any false god. : BAAL
62
Dance of the Twenties, now revived. : CHARLESTON
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Canal completed in 1825. : ERIE
65
___ Adoré. : RENEE
66
Western Indians. : UTES
67
Pauline ___, who starred in "They Knew What They Wanted." : LORD
68
He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923. : YEATS
69
Indonesian islands. : SULA
Down
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Big laugh: Slang. : BOFF
2
Others: Lat. : ALII
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Zany brother act. : RITZ
4
Business end of a hose. : NOZZLE
5
Reverse a decision. : OVERRULE
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Tribunal. : BAR
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Heir to the throne of Norway. : OLAF
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Quiet periods. : LULLS
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Unexcited. : SEDATE
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Painted walls by brush-taps. : STIPPLED
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Fops of the Twenties. : CAKEEATERS
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Love. : AMOR
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Sawbucks. : TENS
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Mechanisms for transmitting motion. : GEARS
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Carnation. : PINK
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Laurel and Musial. : STANS
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Wampum. : BEADS
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Lace tag. : AGLET
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Coiffure of the Twenties. : BOBBEDHAIR
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What one does in "I Spy." : HIDES
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Romantic vessel in moonlight. : CANOE
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What voters didn't do to Davis in 1924. : ELECT
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One of the Talmadge girls. : NORMA
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Sauntered. : STROLLED
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Grapples: Slang. : WRASTLES
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Manifest: Obs. : SENE
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Non-playwriting Shaw. : ARTIE
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Loud clamor. : OUTCRY
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Birthplace of St. Paul. : TARSUS
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A tittering laugh. : TEHEE
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Actor Walter ___. : ABEL
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Root from which poi is made. : TARO
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Capital of Yemen, Arabia. : SANA
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Aleutian base. : ATTU
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His first play on Broadway was "The Vortex." : NOEL
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Handle. : ANSA
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Soak in water. : RET

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4 unique to this puzzle, 15 debuted here and reused later.

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