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Ruth H. Oliver
Ruth H. Oliver

New York Times, Monday, July 26, 1954

44-Across : Baking dish.

Author:
Ruth Oliver
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6 Grid has duplicate clues.
Ruth H. Oliver has 7 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Ruth Oliver is an alias for Ruth H. Oliver.
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© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,854
Across
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Swiss canton, where Lausanne is. : VAUD
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Seed of a cereal grass. : CORN
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Thicket of small trees. : COPSE
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German girl's name. : ILSE
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Diva's forte. : ARIA
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Rowed. : OARED
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Wedge-shaped part of a hammer head. : PEEN
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Part of the eye. : LENS
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Smart. : STING
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Rough-and-tumble fight. : SCRIMMAGE
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Tightly stretched. : TENSE
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Highly malleable metal. : GOLD
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More expressionless. : BLANKER
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Governor in Little Rock. : CHERRY
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Flap. : BEAT
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Yankee southpaw. : LOPAT
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Ships for convoy duty. : CORVETTES
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Dismounted. : ALIT
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Mitchell heroine. : OHARA
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Knight of the road. : HOBO
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Mandatory. : NECESSARY
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Thin broth. : GRUEL
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Charitable gift. : ALMS
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Capital of South Dakota. : PIERRE
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Baking dish. : SCALLOP
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River into the Danube. : SAVA
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Apportion. : ALLOT
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Popular dessert. : APPLETART
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Island republic. : HAITI
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Purpose. : GOAL
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Yale men. : ELIS
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Incensed. : IRATE
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Distinctive mark. : NOTE
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Briefly brilliant star. : NOVA
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More ignoble. : BASER
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Formerly: Archaic. : ERST
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Prophet. : SEER
Down
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Bigwigs. : VIPS
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Actor Guinness. : ALEC
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Partaker. : USER
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Blacken the name of. : DENIGRATE
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Serenely. : CALMLY
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Mountain nymph. : OREAD
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Boxing arena. : RING
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Sapodilla plum. : NASEBERRY
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Having ribs. : COSTATE
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Made of a cereal grain. : OATEN
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Dress for show. : PRINK
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Meaning. : SENSE
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Turf-cutting tool. : EDGER
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Man's nickname. : MORT
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Source of pumice. : LAVA
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The Campbells, for instance. : CLAN
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Part of a golf course. : HOLE
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Heroic in scale. : EPIC
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Swine. : BOARS
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Symbol of luxurious living. : CHAMPAGNE
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Is a source of danger. : THREATENS
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Summer journey. : TOUR
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Biblical name. : EBER
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Fish delicacy. : SOLE
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Scandinavian city. : OSLO
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More pungent. : SALTIER
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Put in words. : GIVE
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Straw mattress. : PALLET
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Title recently dropped in India. : SAHIB
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Girl's name meaning bright. : CLARA
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Otherwise called. : ALIAS
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German girl's name. : LOTTE
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Young oysters. : SPATS
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Inadequate. : POOR
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Lily plant. : ALOE
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Tear apart. : RIVE
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Emperor. : TSAR

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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