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Herbert Ettenson
Herbert Ettenson

New York Times, Saturday, October 6, 1956

11-Down : Underworld group.

Author:
Herbert Ettenson
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 304 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Herbert Ettenson has 87 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1956, The New York TimesNo. 2,657
Across
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Do, re, mi, etc. : SCALE
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Copied. : APED
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Much excited. : AGOG
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Invigorating. : TONIC
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Byway. : LANE
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Heavy hammer. : MAUL
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Senior. : OLDER
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Concerning. : INRE
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Preposition. : INTO
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Pestiferous. : PLAGUY
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Search systematically. : COMB
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Main mail building: Abbr. : GPO
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Cowboy Autry. : GENE
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To the point of ludicrosity. : ADABSURDUM
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Representative: Abbr. : AGT
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Shorten up on one's hold on a bat. : CHOKE
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Radiciferous. : ROOTY
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Device for seeing. : PEEPHOLE
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Housing problem. : SLUMS
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Booty. : LOOT
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Earl Derr Biggers character. : CHAN
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Complete confusion. : CHAOS
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Harum-scarum. : SLAPDASH
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At ___ (puzzled). : ALOSS
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___ of 1957. : CLASS
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Chinese tea. : CHA
46
Pertinent. : TOTHEPOINT
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Coarse hair. : SHAG
49
Wartime agency. : OSS
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File. : RASP
51
Electrical unit. : AMPERE
53
Forms knots (in cotton). : NEPS
55
Stringed instrument. : VIOL
57
Slackening bar on a loom. : EASER
58
Fingerprint, for instance. : CLUE
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Actress Jeffreys. : ANNE
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Great ___! : SCOTT
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Salt lake in Australia. : EYRE
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___ egg. : NEST
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Contemporary of Horatio Alger. : HENTY
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Fill-in. : STOPGAP
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Electoral ___. : COLLEGE
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Musical direction. : ANDANTE
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Faithful. : LIEGE
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Beige. : ECRU
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Moslem name. : ALI
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Type of make-up. : PANCAKE
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Invest. : ENROBE
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Composer Taylor. : DEEMS
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Pierrot, for one. : AMI
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Underworld group. : GANGDOM
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Amounts produced. : OUTPUTS
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Downcast. : GLOOMY
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Creatures of Gulliver's fourth voyage. : YAHOOS
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Hempen fabrics. : BURLAPS
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Witless one. : DOLT
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Three minutes. : ROUND
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Selector. : CHOOSER
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A pool or puddle. : PLASH
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Peak in California. : SHASTA
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Tartan wearers. : CLAN
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Intently. : CLOSELY
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Quick-tempered one. : HOTSPUR
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Sweaters. : SLIPONS
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Dulles' predecessor. : ACHESON
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Golda Myerson's predecessor. : SHARETT
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Ike's aide. : HAGERTY
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Quickly. : ATONCE
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Term in trigonometry. : COSINE
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Stately dance. : PAVAN
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New frontier. : SPACE
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Netting. : MESH
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Lay eyes on. : SEE
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Tennis term. : LET

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

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