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Louise Earnest
Louise Earnest

New York Times, Friday, September 4, 1964

26-Across : Dam at Muscle Shoals.

Author:
Louise Earnest
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 296 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Louise Earnest has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1964, The New York TimesNo. 5,514
Across
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Fastened, in a way. : LACED
6
Contour. : LINE
10
"___ a little nut tree ... " : IHAD
14
Love: It. : AMORE
15
Military term. : AWOL
16
___ contendere. : NOLO
17
Speaking freely. : VOCAL
18
Common yellow-flowered trefoil. : BIRDSFOOT
20
Invites. : ASKS
21
Masculine title. : DON
22
Slurs over. : ELIDES
23
Norse gods. : AESIR
25
Breakfast food. : BRAN
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Dam at Muscle Shoals. : WILSON
28
Traces. : VESTIGES
32
Orinoco tributary. : ARO
33
Light: Fr. : LEGER
35
See 48 Across. : STORE
36
Dickens girl. : DORA
38
Dehydrated. : DRIED
40
Of ___. : YORE
41
Not standing idle. : INUSE
43
Pot contents. : ANTES
45
Turf. : SOD
46
Signs. : SYMPTOMS
48
Goody shop. : BAKERY
50
Attila's hordes. : HUNS
51
Medicinal cigarette. : CUBEB
52
Cookbook items. : BREADS
55
Iota. : JOT
56
Noun suffixes. : EERS
59
Keen of vision. : EAGLEEYED
61
Jet of vapor. : SPRAY
62
Get going! : SCAT
63
Fork part. : TINE
64
Waves, for short. : PERMS
65
Shoe sizes. : TENS
66
Miner's nail. : SPAD
67
Rendezvous. : TRYST
Down
1
Volcanic issue. : LAVA
2
Name meaning "a burden." : AMOS
3
Boastful little fellow. : COCKALORUM
4
Rubs out. : ERASES
5
State: Abbr. : DEL
6
Item in production cost. : LABOR
7
"Heads ___ ... " : IWIN
8
Conjunction. : NOR
9
Churchmen. : ELDERS
10
World without end. : INFINITY
11
Cowl. : HOOD
12
African lily. : ALOE
13
Morse signals. : DOTS
19
Louver boards. : SLATS
21
Feasted. : DINED
24
Coin of Peru. : SOL
25
Headgear. : BERET
26
African river beds. : WADIS
27
Twist of fate. : IRONY
28
Mineral deposits. : VEINS
29
Prickly shrub. : GOOSEBERRY
30
Slip. : ERROR
31
Run-down. : SEEDY
34
Weight units. : GRAMS
37
Paving mixtures. : ASPHALTS
39
First appearance. : DEBUT
42
Musical exercise. : ETUDE
44
The seventh day: Abbr. : SAB
47
Attacks. : ONSETS
49
Zoo attendant. : KEEPER
51
Like a spy's message. : CODED
52
Excel. : BEST
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Derby. : RACE
54
Governor in Juneau. : EGAN
55
City SW of Leipzig. : JENA
57
L.A. team. : RAMS
58
Method: Abbr. : SYST
60
Beagle sound. : YIP
61
Liverpool, for one: Abbr. : SPT

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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