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Isaac Kert
PLACES AND PEOPLE
New York Times, Sunday, June 22, 1947
74-Across : Mix wet clay.
Author:
I. Kert
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 170 , Blocks: 78 , Avg Word Len: 5.31 , Missing: { Q X } , Scrabble score: 668 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 153 , Cheaters: 0 , FITB: 6 , XRef: 0 , Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 52
Isaac Kert has 30 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
I. Kert is an alias for Isaac Kert.
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© 1947, The New York Times No. 280
Across
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Organized military subdivision. :
CORPS 11
Italian painter (1576-1622). :
SPADA 16
The Hararite, father of Ahiam. :
SACAR 21
Suggesting a calf. :
VEALY 22
Member of an early Christian sect. :
ARIAN 23
Worker in the pits. :
MINER 24
Novel by Chateaubriand. :
ATALA 25
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City on Biscayne Bay. :
MIAMI 27
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Specially trained airborne infantry. :
PARATROOP 35
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Colony lost by Italy. :
LIBYA 54
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Islands in Indian Ocean. :
COCOS 60
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Two-masted schoonerlike ships: Sp. :
GOLETAS 69
Youngest of the March sisters. :
AMY 70
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Unusual person: Slang. :
ONER 76
Scotch hillsides. :
BRAES 77
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210 mi. river in England. :
SEVERN 82
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Norse goddess of the sea. :
RAN 86
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Touch and glance off. :
GRAZE 90
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Tributary of the Drava. :
MUR 101
Cape on SE coast of Newfoundland. :
RACE 102
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Finnish port, now Russian naval base under 50-year lease. :
PORKKALA 112
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S. American plant cutters. :
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Battery terminal. :
ANODE 126
Payments for homicides: Ir. :
ERICS 127
Exclamation to attract attention. :
HEIGH 129
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Cathedral city in Belgium. :
NAMUR 132
Musical composition. :
NONET 133
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Office of the Roman Curia. :
DATARIA 4
Brown October quaff. :
ALE 5
One of the Cyclades. :
SYRA 6
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Baltimore baseball player. :
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Federal judge, ruled in Portal Pay case. :
PICARD 13
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French poet (1797-1863). :
VIGNY 33
Dwelling place of the Muses. :
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Kept in an enclosure. :
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Island west of Sumatra. :
NIAS 46
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Sister and wife of a god. :
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Subject of the speleologist. :
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Pseudonym of Charles William Gordon. :
CONNOR 64
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Former Governor of Georgia. :
ARNALL 68
Drug-yielding plants. :
SENNAS 70
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Place of public contest. :
ARENA 72
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Enfants terribles. :
BRATS 78
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Executed Palestinian. :
GRUNER 90
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Scandinavian name. :
NILS 93
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Shakespearean fairy. :
PUCK 95
Boxer suspended by N. Y. State Athletic Commission. :
GRAZIANO 96
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American inventor. :
MORSE 102
Judicial recordings. :
ACTA 103
International territory under U. N. control. :
TRIESTE 104
The late ___ von Ribbentrop. :
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African tree yielding fat. :
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Answer summary:12 unique to this puzzle , 40 debuted here and reused later , 12 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles .
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Grid has normal rotational symmetry It has 12 words unique to this puzzle:
It has 40 additional words that debuted in this puzzle and were later reused (total number of puzzles in brackets):
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Grid has an unusual size: 23 rows x 23 columns.
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