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W. E. Jones
W. E. Jones

ANTHOLOGY

New York Times, Sunday, November 17, 1957

3-Down : Heat-resistant minerals.

Author:
W. E. Jones
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 73, Avg Word Len: 5.26, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 554 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 128, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 23
W. E. Jones has 95 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 3,064
Across
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Salten story. : BAMBI
6
Wind around. : COIL
10
Inspires reverence. : AWES
14
___ Park. : ESTES
19
Wild sheep. : URIAL
20
Spanish jar. : OLLA
21
Learning. : LORE
22
Hester Prynne's daughter. : PEARL
23
Shellfish. : NACRE
24
Kipling character. : WEEWILLIEWINKIE
27
Famous Longchamp race. : GRANDPRIX
29
The night club set. : CAFESOCIETY
30
Garden greens: Dial. : SASS
31
Tributary of the Rhone. : AIN
32
Short form of a preposition. : PON
33
Maxim. : SAW
34
"The Loved ___." : ONES
35
Fodder plant. : TARE
37
Napoleonic battleground. : JENA
38
Defense: Ger. : WEHR
40
Additional. : SECOND
43
When Solomon Grundy was christened. : TUESDAY
46
Manchurian port. : DAIREN
50
Public. : OVERT
51
Samite. : SILK
52
Very wet. : ASOP
54
Scarf. : STOLE
55
Terra ___. : FIRMA
56
United: Fr. : UNIE
57
Household goods. : LINEN
59
Vegetables. : YAMS
60
Wrangled. : ALTERCATED
62
Greek name for Ezra. : ESDRAS
64
Timetable abbreviation. : DST
65
Air wells. : AREAS
66
"In His ___." : STEPS
68
Middle of the 6th C. : DLI
70
Brand of Cain. : STIGMA
74
Hi-fi fan. : AUDIOPHILE
79
Rajah's wife. : RANI
81
Ballet master of the Met. : SOLOV
82
Greek letters. : PSIS
83
Kind of wave. : TIDAL
84
Vulcan's home. : AETNA
86
"Strange Interlude" character. : NINA
87
Flat-bottomed boat. : PUNT
88
Oleoresin. : ELEMI
89
Real name of the Barrymores. : BLYTHE
91
Parson in "Ghosts." : MANDERS
93
Emporia. : STORES
94
Pinnae. : EARS
96
Slangily stylish. : TONY
97
Fortification ditch. : FOSS
98
Veteran actor. : LAHR
101
Two ___ time. : ATA
103
Almighty. : GOD
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Pronoun. : HER
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1/6 drachma. : OBOL
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Means of intramural transit. : ELEVATORCAR
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Myriapod. : CENTIPEDE
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Character in "Wuthering Heights." : HARETONEARNSHAW
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Apparition. : SHADE
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Only. : ALONE
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Playwright Bagnold. : ENID
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Scarlett's home. : TARA
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Headdress. : MITER
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Finnish poems. : RUNES
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Sound. : SANE
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Girl in an old song. : KATY
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Very timid. : SCARY
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Stoppers. : BUNGS
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Cockatoo. : ARARA
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Heat-resistant minerals. : MICAS
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Freelance aviator. : BARNSTORMER
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"___ Three Lives." : ILED
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Shell used as money in Africa. : COWRIE
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Liquid glyceride. : OLEIN
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Holly. : ILEX
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Specialty of the Medes and Persians. : LAW
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Minstrel in "Ivanhoe." : ALLANADALE
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Jack London character. : WOLF
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Relatives of Hiawatha. : ERIES
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Crossruff. : SEESAW
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Majestic. : EPIC
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Status of an old employe. : SENIORITY
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Caught. : TAKEN
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Descendant of a son of Gad. : ERITE
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Weavers' reeds. : SLEYS
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Church images. : ICONS
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Made a big hit with: Slang. : WOWED
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"Bearded like the ___ ... " : PARD
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Looked slyly. : PEEKED
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Star of first magnitude. : ANTARES
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She plays Eliza. : JULIE
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Holds for use. : HAS
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Chesterfield. : SOFA
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Bale, in poetry. : EVIL
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Definite fact. : CERTAINTY
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Shading. : TINT
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Without any changes. : ASIS
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Farther: Poet. : YOND
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Seller of wares to motorists. : ROADSIDER
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Symbols of New England. : ELMS
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Retreat. : NEST
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Forceful argument. : SUASION
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Remain. : PERSIST
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Organization started in 1949. : NATO
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Sacred animals of Egypt. : CATS
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Musical groups. : SEPTETS
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Unruffled. : PHILOSOPHIC
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Woolen cloth. : DRAB
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Biblical Levite. : LAEL
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Light: Slang. : GLIM
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West African monkey. : MONA
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Leaders of the literati. : AVANTGARDE
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Affix. : APPEND
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Loan shark's levy. : USURY
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Discordant sounds. : DINS
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Cloth akin to samite. : LAME
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Site of Greek Olympics. : ELIS
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Come between. : INTERVENE
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Interjection. : AHA
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Muse with a lyre. : ERATO
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Town near Utrecht. : DOORN
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Kind. : SORT
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Boundary marks. : STONES
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Part of Boston's Back Bay. : FENWAY
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Composer of operettas. : LEHAR
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Primitive Babylonian diety. : ALALU
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Wading bird. : HERON
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Lists. : ARENA
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"The ___ of Midlothian." : HEART
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Blessed: Lat. : BEATA
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More unusual. : ODDER
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Wary: Colloq. : LEERY
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Noun suffixes. : ATES
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Byron poem. : CAIN
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Kind of rolled tea. : CHAA
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Cults. : ISMS
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Broker's abbreviation. : STK

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8 unique to this puzzle, 15 debuted here and reused later, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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