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Willard N. Jordan
Willard N. Jordan

GLOBAL GLOSSARY

New York Times, Sunday, April 6, 1947

118-Across : False alarm.

Author:
Willard N. Jordan
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 172, Blocks: 79, Avg Word Len: 5.23, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 663 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 150, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 55
Willard N. Jordan has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Corrected the birth year in 58-Down from 1620 to 1622.

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© 1947, The New York TimesNo. 269
Across
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Muscovite. : RUSSIAN
8
Lovelace's name for Lucy Sacheverell. : LUCASTA
15
Where the Ob flows. : SIBERIA
22
Patron saint of the poor. : ANTHONY
23
Lingua franca among Semitic peoples. : ARAMAIC
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Lasting from sunset to night. : EVELONG
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She escaped Porsena by swimming the Tiber. : CLOELIA
26
Ripple. : WAVELET
27
Clown in All's Well That Ends Well. : LAVACHE
28
The Prince in Henry IV. : HAL
29
Bride of the Swan Knight. : ELSA
31
Swarm. : NEST
32
Britons ruled by Queen Boadicea. : ICENI
34
Squatter State: Abbr. : KAN
35
Prominent M. P. : EDEN
37
Out of bed. : ASTIR
39
The red cedar. : SAVIN
41
Wheat. : SPELT
43
Delaware Indian. : LENAPE
46
Trim. : PRUNE
48
Learned class of Gallic prophets. : VATES
50
Colorado Indians. : UTES
51
Author of Of Human Bondage. : MAUGHAM
53
Absence of diversity. : UNITY
55
Outside: Comb. form. : ECT
57
Surprise blow following affair thought ended. : AFTERCLAP
60
Penned. : WROTE
61
Most adroit. : NEATEST
65
For. : PRO
66
Synagogue. : SHUL
67
Citizen of N. Z. : MAORI
68
Violent. : TEMPESTY
69
Truman's secretary. : ROSS
71
Ex post facto. : RETROSPECTIVE
74
Ideal wife of Cuchulainn. : EMER
75
Sacred shield of Romans. : ANCILE
77
Old Greek wine pitcher. : OLPE
78
Musical exercise. : ETUDE
80
Name meaning life. : EVE
81
Travel on ground or water: Aviation. : TAXI
82
Garfield's predecessor. : HAYES
84
Son of Zeus and Europa. : MINOS
86
Defiance. : DARE
88
Its symbol is Y. : YEN
89
Lake source of Blue Nile. : TSANA
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Small New Zealand tree. : KARO
92
A "godchild" of the Soviet Union. : POLAND
94
Distinct part. : UNIT
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Introductory steps. : PRELIMINARIES
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Besides. : ALSO
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General in Antony and Cleopatra. : CANIDIUS
104
Clowns. : MIMES
105
Sparkle. : SNAP
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___ Pedro, wooer of Hero. : DON
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Needle-shaped. : ACIFORM
109
Painter of the Dance of the Cupids. : COROT
110
Glittering. : BRILLIANT
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John Brown's nemesis. : LEE
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Slayer of Siegfried. : HAGEN
114
Chief. : HEADMAN
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Spring harvest in India. : RABI
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False alarm. : SCARE
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Popeye's sparring partner. : OLIVE
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"All our swains commend her." : SYLVIA
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Ancient name of Homs, Syria. : EMESA
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Lists. : ARENA
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Places of refuge. : ASYLA
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Playground. : YARD
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Disease of sheep. : GID
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Relatively short period. : SPELL
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Breach. : RENT
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Heavy blow. : SLOG
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Ruby. : RED
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Penelope's father. : ICARIUS
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Quito is its capital. : ECUADOR
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Native of Hué. : ANAMITE
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Lady jilted by Angelo in Measure for Measure. : MARIANA
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Legendary daughter of King Locrine. : SABRINA
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Arab state. : LEBANON
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Mrs. Roosevelt's middle name. : ELEANOR
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Candidate for '48. : STASSEN
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Banba. : IRELAND
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Mrs. Andrew Jackson. : RACHEL
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Disburden. : UNLADE
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Obtained by theft. : STOLEN
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Pronoun. : SHE
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Hercules won her in an archery contest. : IOLE
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Indigo. : ANIL
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Lake draining into Zambezi River. : NYASA
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Mr. Wickfield's profession. : LAW
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Source of atomic power. : URANIUM
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Place where stalagmites. : CAVERN
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Where Iowa State is. : AMES
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Flavors. : SALTS
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Bind together. : TIE
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Revivify. : ACTIVATE
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Goddess who loved Endymion. : SELENE
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Father of Czar Feodor I. : IVAN
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Knight who subdued the giant Ascopart. : BEVIS
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Anything high-flown. : ELA
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New type of plane. : ROCKET
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Fill the lungs with air. : INHALE
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Intelligencers. : AGENTS
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Mineral pitch. : ASPHALT
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Metropolis. : CITY
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"A good ___ is better than riches."—Cervantes. : NAME
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Light carriage. : TRAP
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Ancestral. : AVITIC
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Leather legging. : PUTTEE
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Averages. : PARS
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Card game. : EUCHRE
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ETO. : EUROPE
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Appeared. : SEEMED
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Agglutinant. : GLUE
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Estuary of Thames River. : NORE
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Excel. : CAP
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The People's party in Peru. : APRA
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French Governor of Canada (1622-98). : FRONTENAC
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Famous conductor. : TOSCANINI
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Winged insects. : WASPS
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Mole. : NEVUS
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Gipsy dancer in Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris. : ESMERALDA
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Author of Kidnapped, 1886. : STEVENSON
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Port of ancient Phoenicia. : TYRE
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Breakwater. : MOLE
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A Croat nicknamed "Titler." : TITO
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April ___, 1947. : SIX
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Munificent. : ROYAL
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Character. : TENOR
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Lithuanian dime. : LIT
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Former name of Tokyo. : EDO
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Westcott's horse-trading banker. : HARUM
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Once: Scot. : ANES
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French impressionist, painter of Olympia. : MANET
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She died with Cleopatra. : IRAS
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Iranian Ambassador to U. S. : ALA
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State flower of New Mexico: Var. : YUCA
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Conical piles. : SPIRES
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Garment utilizing an obi. : KIMONO
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Book of the Old Testament. : PSALMS
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Prohibition. : DONT
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Georgian capital, on the Kura. : TIFLIS
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Daughter of Cymbeline. : IMOGEN
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Bog. : MIRE
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Dutch painter (1824-1911). : ISRAELS
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Lady Geraint. : ENID
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Female hare. : DOE
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Drama. : PLAY
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Inconsiderate. : CARELESS
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Assembly. : BEVY
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Within. : INLY
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Flaxen filaments. : HARL
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Basic protein. : HISTONE
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System of rule. : REGIME
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Friendly. : AMICAL
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Challenge repeatedly. : BEDARE
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Husband of Cornelia, Pompeia and Calpurnia. : CAESAR
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Former "Czar" of baseball. : LANDIS
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Swift's poetical name for Miss Waring. : VARINA
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Cromwell's son-in-law. : IRETON
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B, in A + B. : ADDEND
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One of 1,085,000,000 (est.). : ASIAN
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Island off Venezuela. : ARUBA
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Hypothetical men lacking speech. : ALALI
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Peruvian silver city on Lake Titicaca. : PUNO
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Forms fruiting spikes. : EARS
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Great expert: Slang. : ONER
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Nickname of Evangeline's sweetheart. : GABE
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Creek. : RIA
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Follower of Dick Whittington. : CAT
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Spouse of Aegir. : RAN
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___ de mer. : MAL

Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 44 debuted here and reused later, 11 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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