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Madeline Corse
Madeline Corse

New York Times, Tuesday, June 2, 1959

33-Across : Having vertebrae.

Author:
Madeline Corse
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.33)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Madeline Corse has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,609
Across
1
Boy Scout unit. : PATROL
7
___ down. : UPSIDE
13
Baseball team. : ORIOLES
15
Laughed derisively. : FLEERED
16
With toothed margin, as a leaf. : DENTATE
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Business of a library. : LENDING
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___ bien! (right!): Span. : ESTA
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Go ___ (carry out an investigation). : INTO
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Disagreeable, as weather. : NASTY
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Pertaining to barbers. : TONSORIAL
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Famous American family. : ASTOR
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Chester ___ Arthur. : ALAN
29
Man or Wight. : ISLE
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Having vertebrae. : CHORDATE
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Lessened. : ABATED
37
No gentleman. : CAD
38
Ornamental dish. : EPERGNE
40
___ paper. : RAG
41
Enthusiasms. : ARDORS
43
Bog orchid. : ARETHUSA
45
Former rulers of Tripoli. : DEYS
46
Greek letter. : IOTA
48
Worker with animals. : TAMER
49
Hung. : SUSPENDED
52
In motion. : ASTIR
55
One of Mrs. Wiggs' daughters. : ASIA
56
Abundant. : RIFE
60
Exceptional. : SPECIAL
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Instructed. : TRAINED
64
Famous Hemingway story (with "The"). : KILLERS
65
Busy. : ENGAGED
66
Hard. : STEELY
67
Piece of music. : SONATA
Down
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Word element meaning foot. : PODE
2
Olympian god. : ARES
3
Shade. : TINT
4
Device on an axis. : ROTATOR
5
Palm leaf: Var. : OLA
6
Admit. : LETIN
7
Rubber tree. : ULE
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Feather. : PENNA
9
City in Missouri. : SEDALIA
10
Rainbow. : IRIS
11
Hollow. : DENT
12
Irritable. : EDGY
14
Perceived by sight, hearing, etc. : SENSATE
15
Plants of a specified region. : FLORA
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Bears. : TOLERATES
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Sequence. : ORDER
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Silly. : INANE
25
City in Nimrod's kingdom. : ACCAD
26
Apportion. : SHARE
27
Hot beverage. : TODDY
30
Play a banjo. : STRUM
31
Legal instrument. : LEASE
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One of Degas' names. : EDGAR
34
One of two points in an orbit. : APSIS
36
Actress Davis. : BETTE
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Quarry product. : GRANITE
42
Little bone. : OSSICLE
44
Builder of Roman wall in Britain. : HADRIAN
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Gem stones. : OPALS
50
Archangel. : URIEL
51
Mends. : DARNS
52
Requests. : ASKS
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Narrow point of land. : SPIT
54
Word element meaning distant. : TELE
57
Name meaning daughter. : INGA
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Metrical units. : FEET
59
Norse poetry. : EDDA
61
Relating to: Suffix. : ARY
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In the past. : AGO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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