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S. A. Kay
S. A. Kay

New York Times, Tuesday, January 10, 1956

44-Down : One-stripers.

Author:
S. A. Kay
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J Q V W }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
S. A. Kay has 118 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1956, The New York TimesNo. 2,387
Across
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Cummerbund. : SASH
5
Overlook. : MISS
9
Send back. : REMIT
14
Urgent entreaty. : PLEA
15
Replication. : ECHO
16
With haste. : APACE
17
Folding money. : LONGGREEN
19
Daily ___. : DOZEN
20
Wayfarer's stop. : INN
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Irritate: Colloq. : RILE
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Kitchen gadgets. : DICERS
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Vexed. : TEASED
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Flashlight. : TORCH
27
Single points. : ACES
29
Argues logically. : REASONS
33
Great pioneer route of U. S. history. : OREGONTRAIL
37
Member of the family. : POP
38
Office chief. : BOSS
39
Indefinitely long period. : EON
40
The Forsyte story. : SAGA
41
Adder. : ASP
42
Emulate the chameleon. : CHANGECOLOR
46
Journal. : DAYBOOK
48
Fillip. : SNAP
49
Blot out. : ERASE
51
Name in Baseball's Hall of Fame. : SISLER
55
London street, parallel to the Thames. : STRAND
58
Noble in Yemen. : EMIR
60
The Tin Woodman's companion. : AXE
61
Repeat idly. : PRATE
62
Calendar now in general use. : GREGORIAN
64
___ Mongolia. : OUTER
65
___ entendu (certainly): Fr. : BIEN
66
At all. : ONCE
67
Lighthearted years. : TEENS
68
Fits to music. : SETS
69
Dole out. : METE
Down
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Disunite. : SPLIT
2
Apart from another. : ALONE
3
Plant of the pea family. : SENNA
4
Broomstick rider. : HAG
5
City in Connecticut. : MERIDEN
6
Young republic: Abbr. : ICEL
7
Leaf of a book. : SHEET
8
Native ___. : SON
9
Advocating sweeping change. : RADICAL
10
Remarkable periods of time. : EPOCHS
11
Confusing network. : MAZE
12
Cooling device. : ICER
13
See 17 Across. : TENS
18
Dancer Jose. : GRECO
22
After zwei. : DREI
24
Loses stability. : SAGS
26
Red apes. : ORANGS
28
Porterhouse and club. : STEAKS
30
Hyalite. : OPAL
31
Hopeless attempt: Colloq. : NOGO
32
Yard or boom. : SPAR
33
Old Testament book: Abbr. : OBAD
34
Luigi's girl. : ROSA
35
Make out. : ESPY
36
Man's nickname. : RON
40
Dunks. : SOPS
42
Cut ___ (take a direct route). : CORNERS
43
Tennis star. : HOAD
44
One-stripers. : ENSIGNS
45
Nasser's capital. : CAIRO
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On the losing side. : BEATEN
50
Unearthly. : EERIE
52
Singer Frankie. : LAINE
53
Methodical. : EXACT
54
Dancer Jeanmaire. : RENEE
55
Catch with the eye. : SPOT
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Faithful. : TRUE
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Class in a certain order. : RATE
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Sports gathering. : MEET
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Noted man of letters. : GBS
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Book of the Bible: Abbr. : ROM

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

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