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Victor Goldfarb
Victor Goldfarb

New York Times, Wednesday, January 14, 1953

43-Down : Possibly the oldest city in the world.

Author:
Victor Goldfarb
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.68, Missing: { J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 15
Victor Goldfarb has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,305
Across
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Emulated Brian Sullivan. : SANG
5
Uncloses: Poet. : OPES
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Open place in a forest. : GLADE
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Abdul the Bul Bul. : AMIR
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Turn over by tossing. : FLAP
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It travels by grapevine. : RUMOR
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Inscrutable expression. : POKERFACE
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Ancient hero of Denmark. : OGIER
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Kind of trapshooting. : SKEET
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Ancient country in Arabia. : SHEBA
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Letter. : ESS
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Undiluted. : NEAT
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Dip one's doughnuts. : DUNK
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Pumpernickel, for instance. : BROT
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Man's nickname. : NED
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Parts of telescopes. : LENSES
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Too hasty in judgment. : RASH
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Three: Prefix. : TRI
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My Own ___, prize-winning cocker spaniel. : BRUCIE
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Elephant goad used by mahouts. : ANKUS
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Cheerless. : SAD
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Sudden alarm. : SCARE
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Owner of a ditty bag. : SEAMAN
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One way to vote. : NAY
49
Umpire in the baseball Hall of Fame. : KLEM
50
Where assassination started World War I. : SERBIA
51
I love: Latin. : AMO
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Not so much. : LESS
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Buttonhole. : SLIT
55
Heavenly creature: French. : ANGE
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Another way to vote. : YEA
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Sacred figures of the Greek Church. : IKONS
62
Biblical name. : ABIEL
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Friend to Mr. Johnson. : OLSEN
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City playgrounds. : BACKYARDS
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Handling. : USING
71
A small case for needlework. : ETUI
72
Café au ___ (light brown). : LAIT
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Foretells. : READS
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Famous football coach. : YOST
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"___ go." : LETS
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Exhausts gradually. : SAPS
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Running wild. : AMOK
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Greek goddess of victory. : NIKE
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Indications of the ability to make things grow. : GREENTHUMBS
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Absent from regular work. : OFF
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Mends the ceiling. : PLASTERS
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Every. : EACH
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A transmission gear. : SPEED
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Crosby, Como, Haymes, et al. : GROANERS
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Drag along. : LUG
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Pierette to Pierrot. : AMIE
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Serves the purpose. : DOES
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Sins. : ERRS
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Highway: Abbr. : RTE
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Onion. : BULB
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Small snack for an aardvark. : ANT
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Pitcher's specialty. : KNUCKLEBALL
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Copper and zinc. : BRASS
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Queen in the East. : RANEE
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German man's name. : OSKAR
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Meredith's Irish heroine. : DIANA
34
Climb up and over. : SCALE
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O'Kelly is ___ President. : EIRES
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Is apparent. : SEEMS
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Ship news. : SAILINGS
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Possibly the oldest city in the world. : DAMASCUS
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Corporal in the Indian army. : NAIK
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More distant: Poet. : YON
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Senator from New Hampshire. : TOBEY
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Light-hearted. : GAY
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Pronoun. : YOUR
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Or. : ELSE
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33,000 miles of coastline. : ASIA
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Backlog of the free nations. : NATO
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Dies ___ (day of wrath): Latin. : IRAE
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Revise. : EDIT
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Naval landing craft. : LSTS
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Remnant. : END
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Mr. Marlowe, to his friends. : KIT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 12 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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