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Alice H. Cook
Alice H. Cook

PEOPLE AND PLACES

New York Times, Sunday, January 22, 1950

33-Down : Holdfast for a rope.

Author:
Alice Cook
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 142, Blocks: 62, Avg Word Len: 5.34, Missing: { F X Z }, Scrabble score: 528 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 134, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 15, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 30 Grid has duplicate clues.
Alice H. Cook has 25 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Alice Cook is an alias for Alice H. Cook.
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© 1950, The New York TimesNo. 415
Across
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Heifetz. : JASCHA
7
President of Philippines. : QUIRINO
14
Omar ___ Bradley. : NELSON
20
U. S. chief, 1881-85. : ARTHUR
21
Takes off cargo. : UNLADES
22
Salt of a fatty acid. : OLEATE
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Ambassador to China. : STUART
24
Smoothest. : EVENEST
25
Great U. S. naval base in Carolines. : ULITHI
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Shoe. : PUMP
27
Weapon with sharp point. : EPEE
29
Lake in "Lady of the Lake." : KATRINE
31
___ publica. : RES
32
Marshall Plan. : ERP
33
Having spasms: Med. : CLONIC
35
Slashed. : SLIT
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Approaches. : NEARS
38
Munificent. : ROYAL
40
British ___. : ISLES
42
Oread. : ECHO
44
Vaulted recess. : APSE
45
Commies. : REDS
47
Reduce. : SLIM
49
Dances. : HULAS
51
Chancellor in the Bundestag. : ADENAUER
55
Mohammedan priest. : IMAM
57
Sea nymphs. : NEREIDS
61
Resigns. : DEMITS
62
Passes. : ELAPSES
65
U. S. delegate to the U. N. : AUSTIN
66
___ plaisir. : AVEC
67
Lug. : TOTE
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For external use only. : LOTIONS
71
Gunnar Myrdal heads this U. N. group. : ECE
72
Pineapples. : PINAS
74
Five-___. : PERCENTER
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Bret ___. : HARTE
78
Little shaver. : TAD
79
Ancient order. : ESSENES
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Henry Robinson ___. : LUCE
83
Branch of the Moselle. : SAAR
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Immutable: Poet. : ETERNE
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Scoffer. : DERIDER
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Holy: French. : SAINTE
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Distributes again. : REDEALS
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Incarnation of Vishnu. : RAMA
93
Cloyed. : SATIATED
95
Mountains of North Africa. : ATLAS
97
Nobel Peace Prize co-winner, 1946. : MOTT
99
City on the Aar. : BERN
100
Engendered. : BRED
103
Flexible flyer. : SLED
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Norway. : NORGE
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Krupp city. : ESSEN
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Revive. : RENEW
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At all. : EVER
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Classified. : SORTED
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Day of the week: Abbr. : TUE
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Over: Prefix. : EPI
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___ laughter. : HOMERIC
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___ pilot. : TEST
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Meat flavoring. : SAGE
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Sponsor of Social Security Act in Senate. : WAGNER
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Quick retort. : RIPOSTE
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Saluted. : HAILED
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Where Mark Twain courted Livvy. : ELMIRA
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Prevented. : AVERTED
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She died for Lancelot. : ELAINE
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Extend downward. : DEEPEN
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Libraries, banks, etc. : LENDERS
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Artist. : LIMNER
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National Park in Canadian Rockies. : JASPER
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Toscanini. : ARTURO
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Short and stocky. : STUMPY
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Man: Colloq. : CHAP
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Ben ___. : HUR
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Worker's guild in Russia. : ARTEL
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New York City borough. : QUEENS
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Discloses. : UNVEILS
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___ du Diable. : ILE
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British movie producer. : RANK
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Projects. : IDEAS
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Cuddle. : NESTLE
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Domesticated bird. : OSTRICH
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Part of speech. : NOUN
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Novelist Glasgow. : ELLEN
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Wreath. : LEI
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Ancient Persian governor. : SATRAP
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Additional ones. : OTHERS
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River between Poland and Germany. : NEISSE
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Equilibrium. : POISE
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Wife of Bragi. : ITHUN
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Holdfast for a rope. : CLEAT
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Carew's ladylove. : CELIA
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Relieves. : EASES
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For external use only. : ARNICA
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Nursery rhyme hero. : SIMPLESIMON
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City of W. New York. : OLEAN
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Sprinkle with powder. : DUST
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Truman is one. : MASON
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In a great hurry. : ARUSH
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Adjuster. : ADAPTER
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Swerve. : DEVIATE
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Corrected. : EMENDED
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Began a golf stroke again. : RETEED
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Courage. : METTLE
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Repeating. : ITERANT
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Command. : DICTATE
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Curled the lip in scorn. : SNEERED
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Max ___, columnist. : LERNER
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Sirs: French. : SIEURS
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Wife of Saturn. : OPS
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Sea animal. : ORC
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Government body: French. : SENAT
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Largest of the Moluccas. : CERAM
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Orientals. : ASIANS
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Delivers into slavery. : SELLS
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Family from which House of Hanover descended. : ESTE
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Author of "Hard Cash." : READE
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Tribal chiefs of P. I. : DATOS
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Displayed. : AIRED
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Governor McKay's capital. : SALEM
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Aids and ___. : ABETS
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Respective. : SEVERAL
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Small child. : TROTTER
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Concocted. : BREWED
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Grow dim again. : REPALE
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Riddle: Fr. : ENIGME
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Obtain by reasoning. : DERIVE
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Desires. : GREEDS
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Septuagenarian, as of Dec. 21, 1949. : STALIN
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Ormandy. : EUGENE
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One in want. : NEEDER
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To whatever place. : WHERE
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Mature. : RIPEN
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Miss Merman. : ETHEL
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African port. : ORAN
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___ Meyer Jr. : CORD
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King Aduldet's country. : SIAM
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Peck. : NIP
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___ Anne Beaupré. : STE
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Oriental name. : ALI

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4 unique to this puzzle, 26 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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