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Thomas Meekin
Thomas Meekin

WITH CLUES FROM THE NEWS

New York Times, Sunday, June 20, 1943

84-Across : Unbecoming a male person.

Author:
Thomas Meekin
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 164, Blocks: 71, Avg Word Len: 5.59, Missing: { K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 611 (avg 1.33)
Open Squares: 180, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 95
Thomas Meekin has 202 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Original 87-Across clue had "chlorophyl"; changed to "chlorophyll."

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© 1943, The New York TimesNo. 71
Across
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Fortified line held by Germans. : MAGINOT
8
West African coastal district. : CALABAR
15
Vast Russian plains. : STEPPES
22
Samuel Francis Smith's famous poem. : AMERICA
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Alkaloid in cusco bark. : ARICINE
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Where the Round Table was. : CAMELOT
25
Small basket. : HANAPER
26
Great hunters. : NIMRODS
27
Disease of the grapevine. : ERINOSE
28
Black cuckoo. : ANI
29
Island in Sea of Okhotsk, part Russian, part Japanese. : SAGHALIEN
31
Musical pitch adjuster. : TUNER
33
Spike of Indian corn. : EAR
34
Throw. : TOSS
36
Pointed rocks in the English Channel. : NEEDLES
37
American commodore, later Russian rear admiral. : JONES
38
Town in Italy. : ASTI
39
In music, muffled. : MUTED
41
Scores in rugby football. : TRIES
42
German-occupied city. : PARIS
43
Russian labor union. : ARTEL
44
Genus of herbs. : ASARUM
46
___ Parliament, 1258. : MAD
47
Dependency of China. : TIBET
48
Convey: Law. : DEMISE
49
Rough. : UNEVEN
51
Assyrian moon god. : SIN
52
"The ___," by Henryk Sienkiewicz. : DELUGE
54
Companion of Hector and Aeneas. : DIOMEDES
57
Island off coast of Asia Minor. : SAMOS
59
Pertaining to meaning in language. : SEMANTIC
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Prussian watering place. : EMS
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Follower. : SON
65
False amnions. : SEROSAS
67
A group of invertebrates. : RADIATA
68
Small arachnid. : MITE
70
Custodian of a museum. : CURATOR
72
Buddhist column. : LAT
74
Featherlike polyp. : SEAPEN
75
Jackets cut square at the hips. : ETONS
77
St. Francis de ___. : SALES
78
American operatic soprano. : EAMES
80
A kind of drum. : SNARE
81
Perceived the flavor of. : TASTED
83
Codlike fish. : BIB
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Unbecoming a male person. : UNMANLY
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Flap, as a sail. : SLAT
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Yellow form of chlorophyll. : ETIOLIN
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Vought-Sikorsky F4U-1, Navy fighter. : CORSAIR
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Hero of a Euripidean play. : ION
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Siouan Indian. : OTO
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Terminated. : RESULTED
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Acid beverages. : SOURS
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Danish novelist and storyteller. : ANDERSEN
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Name anew. : RETERM
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Wrath. : IRE
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Deputy of Vincentio in "Measure for Measure." : ANGELO
103
Hero of Beaumarchais's "Le Barbier de Seville." : FIGARO
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President Roosevelt's secretary. : EARLY
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Two rivers of this name crossed by German armies, 1939-1941. : BUG
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Pellucid. : LIMPID
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A people of Sikkim, India. : RONGS
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Ill-fated U. S. gunboat in China. : PANAY
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Term of endearment. : SUGAR
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"___ then, this impious rage."—Milton. : CEASE
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Drug-yielding plant. : ALOE
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To resign. : DEMIT
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Endowed with a distinguishing quality. : NATURED
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Wide-mouthed jar. : OLLA
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Abbreviation for Simeon. : SIM
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Nazi U-boat base. : BREST
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Consolidated B-24, Army bomber. : LIBERATOR
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Units of an army. : MEN
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English student. : ETONIAN
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Genus of infusorians. : OPALINA
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Feasted to excess. : OVERATE
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Reinvigorate. : RENERVE
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Below a baron, above a knight. : BARONET
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Discounter. : REBATER
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Gave confidence to. : ASSURED
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Octahedrite. : ANATASE
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Of which Melpomene is the Muse. : TRAGEDY
Down
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Title of a Buddhist adept. : MAHATMA
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Having no hands. : AMANOUS
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Genus of yellow-flowering shrubs. : GENISTA
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Assyrian god of war. : IRA
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Japanese. : NIPS
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Of which Columbia is the gem. : OCEAN
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The bombardier's objective. : TARGET
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Nationality of the R. C. A. F. : CANADIAN
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Having an exterior covering, as seeds. : ARILLED
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What Yankee mariners call British merchant seamen. : LIMIES
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Bob ___, in Sheridan's comedy, "The Rivals." : ACRES
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Physiological individual: biol. : BION
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Conjunction. : AND
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Put back. : RESTORED
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Episodes in action. : SCENES
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Weeds of grainfields. : TARES
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Arabian military commander. : EMIR
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Five: comb. form. : PEN
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Rumanian oil field. : PLOESTI
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Salts of eosin. : EOSATES
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Useless. : STERILE
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Olympian messenger of the gods. : HERMES
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Incorporates. : UNITES
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The whey of milk. : SERUM
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Prizefighter's blow. : JAB
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A Caucasian people. : ARMENIANS
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Ridges of sand. : DUNES
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Isla de ___, off Cuba. : PINOS
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Islands off coast of Sicily: ancient name. : AEGADES
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French wine district. : MEDOC
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Island, northwest of Darwin. : TIMOR
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French novelist. : DUMAS
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Roman goddess. : VENUS
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Gulf north of Gallipoli. : SAROS
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Gaelic god of the sea. : LER
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Grecian goddess of agriculture. : DEMETER
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Follow as a pattern. : IMITATE
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Bone formation. : OSTOSIS
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The deity in Shakespeare's "Tempest." : SETEBOS
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Island off the coast of Greece. : SALAMIS
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Spanish-American scarfs. : TAPALOS
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Utter a second time. : ITERATE
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In cookery a young duck. : CANETON
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___ law. : SALIC
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Island of the Philippines. : SAMAR
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Followers collectively. : ENTOURAGE
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Jewish title of respect. : RAB
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Playing card. : TEN
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Tradesmen. : SELLERS
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Lake in Finland. : ENARE
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David's weapon. : SLING
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The aforesaid thing. : DITTO
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Exorbitant rate of interest. : USURY
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Warble. : YODEL
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Madame de Stael, ___ Necker : NEE
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Turbid, as wine or water. : ROILY
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Containing nephelite: Petrography. : NELIC
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Supposes vaguely. : DREAMS
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River in East Siberia, 1,300 miles to the Yenisei. : ANGARA
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Son of Montague. : ROMEO
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Province of Canada. : MANITOBA
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Office of a Roman diviner. : AUGURATE
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Genus of herbs of gentian family. : FRASERA
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Blue silicates used as gems. : IOLITES
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Vertical plates of sundials. : GNOMONS
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Aleutian Island group: site of American air base. : RAT
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Hydrocarbons used in a substitute for rubber. : BUTENES
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Resembling a hand. : PALMATE
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Set like a tiny island. : ISLETED
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A collegiate office. : DEANERY
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Toothed, as dressed stone. : PEENED
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Heroine of "The Skin of Our Teeth." : SABINA
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Answer in kind. : RETORT
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River flowing 450 miles into the Danube. : DRAVE
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Native of Egypt. : NILOT
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One of the Cinque ports. : DOVER
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Whirring sound. : BIRR
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Hero of a Byronian poem. : LARA
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Biblical character. : REBA
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New: German. : NEU
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Greek god of flocks. : PAN
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Banter: Slang. : RAG

Answer summary:
15 unique to this puzzle, 80 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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