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Geraldine W. King
Geraldine W. King

New York Times, Thursday, May 15, 1958

59-Across : Summit.

Author:
Geraldine W. King
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 14
Geraldine W. King has 7 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,243
Across
1
Speaker's nickname. : TRIS
5
Puerto ___. : RICO
9
Refrain syllables. : LALAS
14
Puny animal. : RUNT
15
Aroma. : ODOR
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Behind: Naut. : ABAFT
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Senator, singer, novelist, playwright, etc. : ANDERSONS
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Strait off Wales, channel of Irish Sea. : MENAI
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One's family. : PEOPLE
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Cape Canaveral expert. : VONBRAUN
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Numbers: Abbr. : NOS
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Sound. : SANE
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Force. : DINT
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Valley. : GLEN
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Advice to workers from the Seven Dwarfs. : WHISTLE
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In medias ___. : RES
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Son of Odin. : THOR
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Sad. : WOEFUL
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Flavoring agent. : ANISEED
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N. Y. city famous for glass industry. : CORNING
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Straw hat, on the Thames. : BOATER
40
Attract. : LURE
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Slower: Mus. abbr. : RIT
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Seven days. : ONEWEEK
44
Baltic native. : ESTH
45
Young fish. : PARR
48
Exclamations of pleasure. : AHAS
49
Porkpie. : HAT
50
See you soon!: Fr. : ABIENTOT
52
Where Sappho lived. : LESBOS
55
Censure. : BLAME
56
Musical made from Guinness movie. : OHCAPTAIN
58
"___, c'est moi." : LETAT
59
Summit. : PEAK
60
Mountain of Greece. : OSSA
61
Praying: Lat. : ORANS
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Girl of Madrid: Abbr. : SRTA
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Tips. : FEES
Down
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Light carriage. : TRAP
2
Teutonic alphabet character. : RUNE
3
Island republic of Asia. : INDONESIA
4
___ it (hurry): Colloq. : STEPON
5
Sweetbrier. : ROSE
6
Form of Esperanto. : IDO
7
Important name in missiles. : CONVAIR
8
Welles and Bean. : ORSONS
9
Gentle person. : LAMB
10
Site of Proving Ground of U. S. : ABERDEEN
11
Porch in Hawaii. : LANAI
12
"Afternoon of ___." : AFAUN
13
Task assigned. : STINT
18
Scottish author. : RLS
22
Radio chain. : NETWORK
24
Booted. : SHOD
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Snatch. : GRAB
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Soft, light fabric. : LENO
28
Upon which. : WHEREAT
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Knowledge. : LORE
31
Ten and: Suffix. : TEEN
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Position of Hodges or Skowron. : FIRSTBASE
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One. : UNIT
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A measurement: Abbr. : LGTH
37
Shopkeeper. : STOREMAN
38
Intimations. : CUES
40
Morocco. : LEATHER
43
Slangy exclamation, as on recovering one's composure. : WHOOPS
44
"___ Eden." : EASTOF
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First name of great cellist. : PABLO
46
More skillful. : ABLER
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Lariat. : RIATA
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Informed: Slang. : HEP
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Gains as a clear profit. : NETS
52
"Mighty ___ rose." : LAKA
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Seine tributary. : OISE
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Snows: Scot. : SNAS
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Lynx. : CAT

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 12 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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