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W. E. Jones
W. E. Jones

New York Times, Wednesday, November 6, 1963

33-Down : Native of African metropolis.

Author:
W. E. Jones
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.40, Missing: { J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
W. E. Jones has 95 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1963, The New York TimesNo. 5,211
Across
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Salt of a certain acid. : BORATE
7
Garment. : SHORTS
13
Equalizers. : EVENERS
15
Height. : STATURE
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State of dreaminess. : REVERIE
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Unit for dieters. : CALORIE
18
"___ you there?" : ARE
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Motives. : REASONS
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Tot up. : ADD
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Nautical canvas. : TARP
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Dull sound. : THUD
25
Merriment. : GLEE
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Other. : ELSE
27
Adroit. : NEAT
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Tendency. : TREND
29
Church reading desk. : LECTERN
31
Important French port. : BREST
32
Hudson River town near Catskill. : COXSACKIE
34
Separate. : APART
36
Truman and others. : CAPOTES
39
Where the poop is. : STERN
40
Pert, saucy girl. : CHIT
41
Case, as for cigarettes, in Germany. : ETUI
43
Very small. : TINY
44
Alaskan glacier. : MUIR
45
Mend. : DARN
46
And so forth: Abbr. : ETC
47
Heels over, as a ship. : CAREENS
50
Trade paper abbreviation. : MFG
51
Glyn, Wylie, etc. : ELINORS
53
More vociferous. : NOISIER
55
French girl's name. : VALERIE
56
Balzac heroine. : EUGENIE
57
Make certain. : ENSURE
58
Unbound pages. : SHEETS
Down
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Chide vehemently. : BERATE
2
Including everything. : OVERALL
3
Kind of gear. : REVERSE
4
Chemical suffix. : ANE
5
Region: Abbr. : TERR
6
Great Lakes port. : ERIE
7
Position. : STAND
8
Haarlem painter. : HALS
9
Indian. : OTO
10
Mexican police officers. : RURALES
11
Poseidon's spear. : TRIDENT
12
Term in tennis. : SEEDED
14
Ushers, for example. : SEATERS
15
Character in Westerns. : SCOUT
20
Teller of old Irish tales. : SHANACHIE
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Piglike animal of the Southwest. : PECCARY
25
Welcomed. : GREETED
27
Nearest to. : NEXT
28
Beethoven Opus 97, for one. : TRIO
30
Ripped. : TORN
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Insolvent: Abbr. : BKPT
33
Native of African metropolis. : CAIRENE
34
Guatemalan volcano. : ATITLAN
35
Items for pupils. : PENCILS
37
Open-mesh fabric. : ETAMINE
38
Satiety. : SURFEIT
39
Stow, as cargo. : STEEVE
40
Malediction. : CURSE
42
French classicist painter. : INGRES
44
Girl of song. : MARIE
47
Type of newspaper man: Abbr. : CORR
48
French pronoun. : NOUS
49
Suspiration. : SIGH
52
Modern: Ger. : NEU
54
Domain of Paul VI. : SEE

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

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