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Sidney Lambert
Sidney Lambert

New York Times, Tuesday, April 15, 1958

66-Across : Weavers' reeds.

Author:
Sidney Lambert
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 303 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Sidney Lambert has 114 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,213
Across
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Acclivity. : SLOPE
6
Partake of food. : FARE
10
Ask. : BEG
13
Assume. : PUTON
14
The same: Lat. : IDEM
15
Hindustani. : URDU
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Otherwise, in law. : ALIAS
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Estuaries: Span. : RIAS
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On the ___ (immediately). : NAIL
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Heir. : SUCCESSOR
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Oblong white linen cloth worn by priests. : AMICE
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Holds up. : HALTS
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Switches. : SHUNTS
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Navy man: Abbr. : CPO
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Marble used as a shooter. : TAW
28
Suppressed bark. : WOOF
29
Pilgrimage to Mecca. : HADJ
31
World of fashion. : VANITYFAIR
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Eskimauan native. : ALEUT
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Bushy clump. : TOD
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Golfer's bugbear. : SLICE
40
Pursued steadily any course begun. : PERSEVERED
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Son of Aphrodite. : EROS
44
Disrupt. : TEAR
45
Porcine animal. : SOW
47
Adjective or noun suffix. : ENT
48
Half pints. : SPLITS
51
Disdain. : SPURN
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Juicy fruit. : PEACH
54
Continued. : CARRIEDON
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Proportion. : RATE
59
Major port on Osaka Bay. : KOBE
60
"Thus ___ Zarathustra." : SPAKE
61
Particles. : ACES
62
Genus of nut trees. : COLA
63
"The harp that once through ___ halls ... " : TARAS
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Popular nickname for a cowboy. : TEX
65
Highballed. : SPED
66
Weavers' reeds. : SLEYS
Down
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9 Down and others. : SPAS
2
Girl's name: Dim. : LULU
3
Auditory. : OTIC
4
Take, as game of fish, illegally. : POACH
5
Put on a throne. : ENSEAT
6
Highest quality, said of gems. : FIRSTWATER
7
Spanish farewell. : ADIOS
8
Build. : REAR
9
Town ESE of Koblenz. : EMS
10
Intelligence. : BRAIN
11
Official notice. : EDICT
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Red, in heraldry. : GULES
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Remove the covering from. : UNMUFFLE
20
Pole. : SLAV
21
Nautical calls. : AHOYS
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Stubborn: Dial. : SOT
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Roughen, as the skin. : CHAP
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Faint. : PALE
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River into the Baltic. : ODER
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Rife. : WIDESPREAD
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Black, Burton, Clark, etc. : JUSTICES
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___'easter. : NOR
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River in Yorkshire. : AIRE
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Monumental portrait statue. : ICON
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Cue support, in billiards. : REST
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Bicuspids. : TEETH
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Anatomical duct. : VAS
42
Sullen. : DOUR
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Carpi. : WRISTS
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Small herring. : SPRAT
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Canadian river, over 1,000 miles long. : PEACE
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Source of chicle. : LATEX
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Fur. : SABLE
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Himalayan land. : NEPAL
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Confine (with "up"). : COOP
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Meet defiantly. : DARE
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Approve: Colloq. : OKAY
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Promontory. : NESS
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Barristers, in England: Abbr. : KCS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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