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A. H. Drummond, Jr.
A. H. Drummond, Jr.

New York Times, Friday, April 24, 1959

38-Across : Plant shoot.

Author:
A. H. Drummond, Jr.
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11
A. H. Drummond, Jr. has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

49-Across original had "Anthropologists's"; corrected it to "Anthropologist's."

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© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,570
Across
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Special flavor. : TANG
5
Dog ___. : TAGS
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Seed covering. : TESTA
14
Manchurian border river. : AMUR
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Novelist Ferber. : EDNA
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Norse goddess of youth. : ITHUN
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Unabridged dictionary. : TOME
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Very close. : NEARATHAND
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One trouble with cities today. : URBANSPRAWL
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Neckline shape. : VEE
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Blow the horn. : TOOT
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Devices for lifting. : LEVERS
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Coddle. : PAMPER
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On ___ (on time). : THEDOT
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Including everything. : INALL
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What "sic" means. : THUS
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User of a prayer wheel. : LAMA
36
Señor's room. : SALA
37
Ages and ages. : AEONS
38
Plant shoot. : CION
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Italian wine city. : ASTI
40
Formerly "formerly." : ERST
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City in Md. : BALTO
42
Concert cry. : ENCORE
44
Ben the poet. : JONSON
45
Subject or servant. : VASSAL
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City on the Truckee. : RENO
48
Chalcopyrite. : ORE
49
Anthropologist's concern. : MISSINGLINK
55
Ancient Sparta. : LACEDAEMON
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Concert halls. : ODEA
58
Baseball deal. : TRADE
59
Lay at anchor. : RODE
60
Equipment. : GEAR
61
Suppressed. : SATON
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Aid to maturing. : AGER
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Cry out. : YELL
Down
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Skin marking: Var. : TATU
2
Love in Spain. : AMOR
3
Insensate. : NUMB
4
Region of North America. : GREATPLAINS
5
Stretching muscle. : TENSOR
6
Expert. : ADEPT
7
Snarl. : GNAR
8
Name meaning princess. : SARA
9
Of the nobility. : TITLED
10
Ordinal suffix. : ETH
11
Second looeys. : SHAVETAILS
12
Piano man. : TUNER
13
Where to see El Misti. : ANDES
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Without reverence. : AWLESS
21
Carol. : NOEL
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The study of Katmai, Krakatoa, etc. : VOLCANOLOGY
26
Tuscan city. : PISA
27
Duck genus. : ANAS
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Bluish-gray feline. : MALTESECAT
29
Not these. : THOSE
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Go after game. : HUNT
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Region: Abbr. : TERR
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Fictional sleuth. : MOTO
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Shortly. : ANON
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Ancient region of Asia Minor. : AEOLIA
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Big Ben sound. : BONG
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City on the Delaware. : CAMDEN
44
Great name in medicine. : JENNER
45
Electrical units. : VOLTS
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Macaw. : ARARA
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___ Janeiro. : RIODE
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Milk wheys. : SERA
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Another trouble with cities today. : SMOG
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___ fixe. : IDEE
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Name meaning champion. : NEAL
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Marx. : KARL
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Old name for Tokyo. : EDO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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