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Harold T. Bers
ABOUT THE GLOBE
New York Times, Sunday, January 26, 1947
93-Down : Weapon furnisher.
Author:
Harold T. Bers
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 168 , Blocks: 83 , Avg Word Len: 5.31 , Missing: { J Q X } , Scrabble score: 657 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 146 , Cheaters: 0 , FITB: 9 , XRef: 0 , Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 59
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© 1947, The New York Times No. 259
Across
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Leon Blum's capital. :
PARIS 6
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Major sect of India. :
HINDU 16
India's interim top man. :
NEHRU 21
Trieste's northwest neighbor. :
UDINE 22
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___ Property Custodian. :
ALIEN 25
India's monetary unit. :
RUPEE 26
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Sect represented in India's Interim Government. :
PARSI 28
U. S. Attorney General. :
CLARK 29
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Land's ___, Cornwall. :
END 31
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Admiral who became Senator. :
HART 34
Primitive native of Bengal. :
KOL 35
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Massachusetts cape. :
ANN 42
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George, Vyacheslav and ___. :
ERNEST 54
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"Refrain, audacious ___."—W. S. Gilbert. :
TAR 62
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Regular change in direction of an axis. :
PRECESSION 77
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Where GI's are studying. :
VASSAR 82
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British West African village. :
EDE 92
Londoner's week-end resort. :
MARGATE 95
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It keeps faucets from dripping. :
WASHER 110
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One of a pair of loaded dice: Obs. :
DEMIBAR 120
Afternoon timeout for Englishmen. :
TEA 121
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Caesar's nationality. :
ROMAN 127
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Small star in The Fox and the Goose. :
ANSER 131
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Composer of Gipsy Love. :
LEHAR 136
So. American dwarf cattle. :
NIATA 137
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U. S. Chief Justice, 1836-64. :
TANEY 142
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Reproduction cell of plants. :
SPORE 147
Down
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How Alaska was acquired from Russia. :
PURCHASE 2
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Living on the banks of a river. :
RIPARIAN 4
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Descendants of serpent slain by Apollo. :
PYTHONS 7
The "R" of R. F. D. :
RURAL 8
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Dorothy Vernon of ___ Hall. :
HADDON 12
Eastern college league. :
IVY 13
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Irish Parliaments. :
DAILS 15
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Village on the Tigris. :
ELATA 18
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Four: Comb. form. :
TETRA 38
World's most important crop. :
WHEAT 41
Condense and hold by surface adhesion. :
ADSORB 42
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Wild West law and order groups. :
POSSES 52
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Glazes the surface. :
SIZES 56
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England's fiery Health Minister. :
BEVAN 64
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Reddish red-yellow. :
AGATE 67
Cause heartquake. :
SCARE 69
Italian painter (1406-69). :
LIPPI 70
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Recent applicant to U. N. :
IRELAND 81
Composer of Falstaff. :
VERDI 84
Shylock's friend. :
TUBAL 85
Between-war intervals. :
PEACES 86
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Its juice is drunk on Broadway. :
PAPAYA 89
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Where wrestlers tangle. :
MAT 93
Weapon furnisher. :
ARMER 94
Nicholas II was the last. :
TSAR 97
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Ruth ___, aviatrix. :
ELDER 100
What the British call dessert. :
SWEET 101
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What propaganda presumably does. :
EDUCATES 109
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St. ___, famous English horse race. :
LEGER 130
East India broadbill. :
RAYA 132
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Palo ___, Hoover's home. :
ALTO 135
Star of Two Years Before the Mast. :
LADD 138
Where Dover is: Abbr. :
DEL 139
Answer summary:15 unique to this puzzle , 44 debuted here and reused later , 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles .
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