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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

New York Times, Friday, November 24, 1950

2-Down : Advance in rank.

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { F H J Q X }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 82, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1950, The New York TimesNo. 523
Across
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Important Yugoslav seaport. : SPALATO
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Quantities of wood. : CORDS
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Treasury of war matériel. : ARSENAL
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What comparisons are. : ODIOUS
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Raised different crops each year, for conservation. : ROTATED
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Australian Prime Minister. : MENZIES
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Doctors' group. : AMA
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Mrs. Albert Sabath's money-winning horse. : ALSAB
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Transfer picture. : DECAL
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Humble turner. : WORM
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Of the sun. : SOLAR
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Frost in verse. : RIME
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Part of a house. : ATTIC
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Booked for Saturday night. : DATED
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Cast bait upon the waters. : DAP
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More incisive. : KEENER
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Three battalions, a band, headquarters, service and howitzer units. : REGIMENT
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Reputation. : ODOR
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Mr. Dubinsky at home. : DAVE
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Tubed like a rifle. : BARRELED
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Trains for short-stops. : LOCALS
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One: Dial. : ANE
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Scheme of color and style. : DECOR
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Rep. Senator of N. H. : TOBEY
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Jumping nerves. : TICS
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Fixed by a cobbler. : SOLED
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Author of "Death in Venice." : MANN
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Eskimo woman's boat. : UMIAK
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Voice. : UTTER
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Popular Christmas gift. : TIE
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More grown-up. : MATURER
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Expectant one. : AWAITER
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First word of many after-dinner speeches. : LADIES
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Checking with the bridle. : REINING
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Rouget de ___, who wrote "La Marseillaise." : LISLE
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Sequence of rulers. : DYNASTY
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Independent state in Borneo. : SARAWAK
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Advance in rank. : PROMOTE
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The goddess Ishtar. : ASTARTE
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Grassland. : LEA
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Architectural pier. : ANTA
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Chinese money of account. : TAELS
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Ireland, to her roving sons. : OLDSOD
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Fought. : COMBATED
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Lowell's "Commemoration ___." : ODE
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Cheesy coat. : RIND
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Napper. : DOZER
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Hara-kiri. : SUICIDE
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Union man of the waves. : SEAMAN
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Slumbered. : SLEPT
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Like a wing. : ALAR
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A league away from the big time. : MINOR
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Kingly. : REGAL
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Yielded. : CEDED
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Unscored hole in golf. : DIVOT
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Parts played. : ROLES
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Jane ___, Ben Franklin's favorite sister. : MECOM
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Source of aid. : RECOURSE
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Oil port on the Black Sea. : BATUM
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Zoo dweller. : ANIMAL
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Event at Town Hall. : RECITAL
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Thickwit. : DOLT
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Felled-tree defensework: Var. : ABATTIS
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Merciful. : LENIENT
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Combined action of two or more drugs. : SYNERGY
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Hold back. : RETARD
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___ Arabia. : SAUDI
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G. O. P. leader. : DEWEY
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___ Kringle. : KRIS
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Reservoir filler. : RAIN
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Slippery customer. : EEL
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A girl for Carol? : INA

Answer summary:
11 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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