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Sidney Lambert
Sidney Lambert

New York Times, Monday, July 23, 1956

46-Across : Twist.

Author:
Sidney Lambert
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 299 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Sidney Lambert has 114 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1956, The New York TimesNo. 2,582
Across
1
Plums for Thespians. : PARTS
6
Stray thing. : WAIF
10
Pianissimo marks. : PPPS
14
Dostoevsky's Prince Myshkin. : IDIOT
15
Japanese indigene. : AINU
16
Spoken. : ORAL
17
Stevenson or Kefauver. : CAMPAIGNER
19
Incline. : TEND
20
Gibbon. : APE
21
Stew. : FRET
22
Volcanic earth. : TRASS
24
Bombards. : STRAFES
26
Source of red pepper. : CHILI
27
Garden plot. : BED
28
Went before. : PRECEDED
31
___ one's time. : BIDED
34
Nantes' river. : LOIRE
35
A Gabor. : EVA
36
Combining form for an acid. : OXAL
37
Aeriform fluids. : GASES
38
Distinguish. : KNOW
39
Title for 58 Across. : SIR
40
Sable and Horn. : CAPES
41
1066 and 1776. : DATES
42
Island off eastern Siberia. : SAKHALIN
44
Clucker. : HEN
45
Faneuil and Independence. : HALLS
46
Twist. : CONTORT
50
Hero of Jacob Abbott's books. : ROLLO
51
Bird of the rail family. : COOT
52
Recent: Comb. form. : NEO
53
Encircled. : GIRT
54
Butler or Hall. : POLITICIAN
57
Place for a bishop's throne. : APSE
58
P. M. : EDEN
59
Push. : SHOVE
60
River into the North Sea. : YSER
61
Dictionary items: Abbr. : DEFS
62
Prongs. : TINES
Down
1
Widths of type. : PICAS
2
Make suitable. : ADAPT
3
Doggerel expert: Var. : RIMER
4
Surpass. : TOP
5
Supplied with personnel. : STAFFED
6
Arbitration subject. : WAGES
7
"It ___ Necessarily So." : AINT
8
Common suffix. : INE
9
Advances. : FURTHERS
10
Ancient palace in Lhasa. : POTALE
11
Voters' choice. : PRESIDENT
12
___ out (succeeds). : PANS
13
Sailed: Abbr. : SLD
18
Nettled. : IRED
23
American playwright. : RICE
25
Biblical name. : ABEL
26
Slogans. : CRIES
28
Polish city of rebellion: Ger. sp. : POSEN
29
Revelers' cry of yore. : EVOE
30
Birds. : DAWS
31
Tweed, for example. : BOSS
32
Plant of the iris family. : IXIA
33
A kind of candidate. : DARKHORSE
34
Stone: Lat. : LAPIS
37
Rode. : GALLOPED
38
Immanuel ___. : KANT
40
Demand. : CALL
41
Cary Middlecoff's calling. : DENTIST
43
Summer garment. : HALTER
44
Loud shout of approval. : HOOT
46
Quarters. : COINS
47
Flavoring agent. : ONION
48
Plunder: Archaic. : REAVE
49
Values of color. : TONES
50
Saws along the grain. : RIPS
51
Musical character. : CLEF
53
He wrote "The Beggar's Opera." : GAY
55
Poem. : ODE
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Convention city. : CHI

Answer summary:
7 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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