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Herbert Ettenson
Herbert Ettenson

New York Times, Saturday, November 24, 1956

55-Down : "My ___," Oscar Straus song.

Author:
Herbert Ettenson
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13
Herbert Ettenson has 87 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1956, The New York TimesNo. 2,706
Across
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Sandaled. : SHOD
5
Greek letters. : CHIS
9
Movie dog. : ASTA
13
Branch of a legislature. : LOWERHOUSE
16
Rain check. : STUB
17
Alias Rosalind Russell. : AUNTIEMAME
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He said, "Delenda est Carthago." : CATO
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Depression scenes. : BREADLINES
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Caesar said it. : ETTU
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African title. : SIDI
22
Language: Abbr. : ENG
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Pitch of voice. : TONE
25
John Masefield heroine. : NAN
27
Pendulum's motion. : TOANDFRO
31
Dutch painter. : STEEN
34
Saltpeter. : NITRE
35
Diving bird. : AUK
36
Singer Munsel. : PATRICE
38
Catherine I. : TSARINA
40
Epoch. : ERA
41
___ jet engine. : TURBO
43
Behind time. : TARDY
44
Decisive defeat. : WATERLOO
46
Crone. : HAG
47
Cigarfish. : SCAD
48
Mr. Burrows. : ABE
50
"Come ___, my melancholy baby." : TOME
54
Closed. : SHUT
56
TV headliner. : EDSULLIVAN
59
Child's counting word. : EENY
60
Village. : SETTLEMENT
61
Jaunt. : TRIP
62
Wind gauge. : ANEMOMETER
63
Argyles. : HOSE
64
Grant. : CEDE
65
Proportion. : RATE
Down
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Chunks. : SLABS
2
Mohammedan nymph. : HOURI
3
Held. : OWNED
4
Writ for continued custody. : DETAINER
5
"___ through the Rye." : COMIN
6
Legendary emperor of China. : HUANGTI
7
Woe ___! : ISME
8
What comic characters do, after being crowned. : SEESTARS
9
Go up. : ASCEND
10
Rodgers & Hammerstein movie. : STATEFAIR
11
Arthur Train's Ephraim. : TUTT
12
"May his tribe increase." : ABOU
14
Clear. : RID
15
Legendary beauty. : HELEN
24
___ time. : ONEATA
26
"Peer Gynt" character. : ANITRA
28
Librettist Harbach. : OTTO
29
Round: Ger. : RUND
30
Endorse, colloquially. : OKAY
31
Eject. : SPEW
32
Scene in "Gone With the Wind." : TARA
33
U. S. in France. : ETATSUNIS
34
Detective Wolfe. : NERO
37
Blind alley. : CULDESAC
39
Ancestor of a bopster. : RAGTIMER
42
Crowed. : BOASTED
45
Copy of an artist's original. : ECTYPE
46
Exclamation of surprise. : HELLO
49
"--- no buts." : BUTME
51
Mrs. Hobby. : OVETA
52
French painter. : MANET
53
___ nous (in confidence). : ENTRE
54
Son of Adam. : SETH
55
"My ___," Oscar Straus song. : HERO
57
Sand hill in England. : DENE
58
Gulliver's nickname. : LEM

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 11 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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