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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

New York Times, Monday, June 1, 1953

26-Across : The price of wagon freight.

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 29, Avg Word Len: 5.44, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 297 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 21
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,443
Across
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Eligible young lady. : MISS
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Beyond danger. : SAFE
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Movie starring Alan Ladd. : SHANE
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Attack of the fidgets. : AGITATION
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Matrimony en masse. : HAREM
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Inventor of techniques. : INNOVATOR
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Solo. : ALONE
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Encage: 2 wds. : LOCKIN
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Rowena, for instance. : LADYFAIR
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Tubular grass. : REED
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Foreign Legion cap. : KEPI
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Make entreaty for. : PRAY
25
Notch in the bit of a key. : WARD
26
The price of wagon freight. : CARTAGE
28
More east than north. : ENE
29
Numerous. : MANY
30
Book of the Mass. : MISSAL
34
Popular pastries. : ECLAIRS
36
Jarmila ___ of the Met. : NOVOTNA
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Providing with a reference system. : KEYING
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Pertaining to motion pictures. : CINE
39
Army Transport Service. : ATS
40
King of Belgium, to 1951. : LEOPOLD
42
Fly lightly. : FLIT
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To be: Latin. : ESSE
46
Relative of the fish hawk. : ERNE
47
Provender. : FEED
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Sings as one. : CHORUSES
50
Columbia River catch. : SALMON
52
Group interested in escalator clauses. : LABOR
53
Assume a proposition. : POSTULATE
55
Malayan feather palm. : ARENG
56
Puts a gulf between. : ALIENATES
57
Curt. : TERSE
58
Sharp complaint. : YELP
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Command: Archaic. : HEST
Down
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Knight clothes. : MAIL
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No excuse, to the law. : IGNORANCE
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Epistolary adverb. : SINCERELY
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Fed the furnace. : STOKED
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Comedian Laurel. : STAN
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River islet. : AIT
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The work of clowns. : FOOLERY
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Absorbed in a book, for instance. : ENRAPT
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Relative of a buggy. : SHAY
10
Fifty cents, Mex. : HALFPESO
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Bellowing. : AROAR
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A mournful song: Latin. : NENIA
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Polishing abrasive. : EMERY
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Hungry for more. : AVID
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Pirates' playground. : DIAMOND
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Jayhawker's home: Abbr. : KANS
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Brotherhood ___. : WEEK
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Stevedore's concern. : CARGOES
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Hand over. : GIVE
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Colliery. : MINE
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Deadlock. : STALEMATE
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Countermeasures. : ANTIDOTES
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Final. : LAST
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Hinge flaps on airplane wings. : AILERONS
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Crocodile river. : NILE
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Radio or TV cabinet. : CONSOLE
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Defray costs beforehand. : PREPAY
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Peasant of Egypt. : FELLAH
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Brilliance of success. : ECLAT
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A plow blade. : SHARE
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Temperate. : SOBER
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His "après-midi" is arduous. : FAUN
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Compulsion. : URGE
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Milestone of a baby's progress. : STEP
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Fledgling haven. : NEST
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Yellow ocher. : SIL

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 19 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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