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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

New York Times, Wednesday, March 12, 1958

5-Across : Lets bait fall lightly.

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { J Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,179
Across
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College club, for short. : FRAT
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Lets bait fall lightly. : DAPS
9
Feature of a parade. : FLOAT
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Napoleon defeated Austria here, 1796. : LODI
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Handle copy. : EDIT
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Valley on the moon. : RILLE
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The modern era. : ATOMICAGE
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Confuse. : ADDLE
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Controversial means of evidence. : WIRETAPPING
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A thousand ages. : EON
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Continue to be. : ARE
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Housing of a sort. : TENEMENTS
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TVs. : SETS
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Cathedral. : MINSTER
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Sash. : OBI
30
Propeller turns. : REVS
31
Midnight meals. : SNACKS
35
Gas from petroleum refining. : PROPENE
37
Tags a base runner. : PUTSOUT
38
Square-dealing. : HONEST
39
Vexes. : IRKS
40
Religious education degree: Abbr. : MRE
41
Standing tall as possible. : ATIPTOE
43
Northern duck. : SMEW
44
Draws. : TIESCORES
47
Oriental name. : ALI
48
Abstract curve. : ARC
49
Phlegmatic. : UNEMOTIONAL
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Less intense. : PALER
55
Coastal disaster. : TIDALWAVE
56
Pointless. : INANE
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Late Mr. Pinza. : EZIO
58
English college town. : ETON
59
Places. : SITES
60
Disks: Abbr. : RECS
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Light moistures. : DEWS
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Error. : FLAW
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Restaurant roast. : ROTI
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Worship. : ADORATION
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Officials on the sidelines. : TIMERS
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Ten: Prefix. : DECA
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Able to conform. : ADAPTIVE
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Untidy places. : PIGPENS
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Relatives of schooners. : STEINS
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Incomplete parts. : FRAGMENTS
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Cover. : LID
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Ancient. : OLDEN
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Apportion. : ALLOT
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The school years. : TEENS
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Follower: Suffix. : ITE
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Carved art object of Japan. : NETSUKE
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Ages. : ERAS
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Campus term. : SOPH
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River of Spain, c. 575 miles. : EBRO
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Speak of. : MENTION
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Doctors's orders. : RESTCURES
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Threaten with anathema. : COMMINATE
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Port near Hiroshima. : KURE
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Oyster dish. : STEW
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Pod inmates. : PEAS
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Of the rules of verse. : PROSODIC
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Make a list of. : ITEMIZE
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Past; beyond: Prefix. : PRETER
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Slackened. : SLOWED
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Carpet. : TAPIS
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Persian. : IRANI
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Brilliance. : ECLAT
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Fall ill. : AIL
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New Mexican art resort. : TAOS
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Confess. : AVOW
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Part of a projector. : LENS
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Chemical suffix. : ENE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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