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Sidney Lambert
Sidney Lambert

New York Times, Tuesday, July 23, 1957

35-Across : Cotton knot.

Author:
Sidney Lambert
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Sidney Lambert has 114 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 2,947
Across
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Recorded. : TAPED
6
Ballerina's skirt. : TUTU
10
Scoria. : SLAG
14
"___ by any other name ... " : AROSE
15
Singles. : ONES
16
50 Across was one. : POLE
17
Insincere expression of good will. : LIPSERVICE
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Disturb. : ROIL
20
Hill, in So. Africa. : KOP
21
Marianne Moore, for instance. : POET
22
Certain believers. : DEISTS
24
Small poniards. : STYLETS
26
Stone of ___. : SCONE
27
Officeholders. : INS
28
Dixie landowners. : PLANTERS
31
Thought deeply. : MUSED
34
Reduces to carbon. : CHARS
35
Cotton knot. : NEP
36
Obligation. : ONUS
37
Conjectures. : SHOTS
38
River into the Baltic. : ODER
39
Stump or Wright: Abbr. : ADM
40
Rain's opposite. : SHINE
41
Wooded. : BOSKY
42
Former. : SOMETIME
44
Variety of tarboosh. : FEZ
45
Three ___. : INONE
46
Hurtful. : MALEFIC
50
He wrote "Victory." : CONRAD
52
Señora's parlor. : SALA
53
Within: Comb. form. : ESO
54
Former name of Mongolian capital. : URGA
55
Surly. : ILLNATURED
58
Small mollusk. : SLUG
59
Enter. : GOIN
60
Lake near the Arctic Ocean. : ENARE
61
Mr. le Moko. : PEPE
62
Pop. : SODA
63
Valleys. : DALES
Down
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Discussions. : TALKS
2
Tumultuously. : ARIOT
3
Garden flower. : POPPY
4
Letter. : ESS
5
Natatorial area. : DEEPEND
6
Jabberwocky word. : TOVES
7
Standard quantity. : UNIT
8
Private eye. : TEC
9
Vehicles on lot. : USEDCARS
10
Bobby Morrow's forte. : SPRINT
11
At ___ (in disorder). : LOOSEENDS
12
Descended. : ALIT
13
Coagulated liquids. : GELS
18
Putrefies. : ROTS
23
Countless ages. : EONS
25
Positions of golf balls. : LIES
26
Political ticket. : SLATE
28
Call up. : PHONE
29
Give off smoke. : REEK
30
Brisk. : SPRY
31
Extinct birds. : MOAS
32
Open, as a parcel. : UNDO
33
Subtitle of Chiang Kai-shek's book. : SUMMINGUP
34
Musical bells. : CHIME
37
Festive occasions: Slang. : SHINDIGS
38
Come through. : OOZE
40
Promenade of yore. : STOA
41
Tardy. : BELATED
43
Infuriate. : ENRAGE
44
Musical refrain. : FALA
46
Food for the soul. : MANNA
47
Untamed. : FERAL
48
River into the Rhone. : ISERE
49
Sets of rules. : CODES
50
Horn of a crescent moon. : CUSP
51
Border, in heraldy. : ORLE
52
Glided. : SLID
56
Card game. : LOO
57
Spenser character. : UNA

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

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