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Sidney Lambert
Sidney Lambert

PHRASEOLOGY

New York Times, Sunday, December 1, 1957

56-Down : Varieties or forms.

Author:
Sidney Lambert
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 68, Avg Word Len: 5.41, Missing: { J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 567 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 120, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 16
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© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 3,078
Across
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Nile city. : ASWAN
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Retain one's courage. : BEARUP
12
Tom ___. : THUMB
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Measurement by the ell. : ALNAGE
18
Finery. : ATTIRE
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Exalted. : HONORED
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Short-lived effort. : FLASHINTHEPAN
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Representative part. : EPITOME
25
Noun suffix. : IST
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5½ point type. : AGATE
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Like ___ (timidly). : ALAMB
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Mound containing a Buddhist shrine. : STUPA
30
Payt. ___. : RECD
32
Buttes. : HILLS
34
Tinker in "Midsummer Night's Dream." : SNOUT
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Norse William Tell. : EGIL
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Standard of conduct. : ETHIC
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Tonio's aria, "___ la Giubba." : VESTI
41
Secant, in trigonometry: Abbr. : COSEC
43
Charlemagne's realm: Abbr. : HRE
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Low-lying tracts: Poet. : VALES
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Krait. : ADDER
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Beam. : RAFTER
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University officers. : REGENTS
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Manumitted. : FREED
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The stage: Slang. : LEGIT
55
Quercine fruits. : ACORNS
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Power source. : MOTOR
57
Small but rare object. : BIBELOT
59
Polish coin. : ZLOTY
60
Autocrat. : MOGUL
61
Greedy. : AVID
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Nickname for Gulliver. : LEM
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American engineer (1820-87). : EADS
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State. : BODYPOLITIC
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Small monkey. : TITI
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Wife of Thor. : SIF
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Iroquois. : ERIE
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Cut triangularly. : GORED
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Donnybrook event. : FIGHT
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Waves. : ROLLERS
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Peaks: Sp. : PICOS
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Lose vigor. : WITHER
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"The ___ Gold." : RHINE
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Species of hickory. : PECAN
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Sphere of operation. : THEATRE
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Boat propelled by three rowers. : RANDAN
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Relative of a fresco. : MURAL
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Divested (of). : SHORN
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Tahitian national god. : ORO
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Feast, in Judaism. : SEDER
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Oblivion. : LETHE
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Financial return. : YIELD
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Snippets. : BITS
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Runnels. : RILLS
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Slavic people. : SORBS
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G. B. S. character. : CLEO
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___ in (inaugurate). : USHER
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Secures. : NAILS
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East Indian hemp fibers. : POOAS
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Baseball figure: Abbr. : AVG
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Plant appendage. : STIPULE
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Recants ignominiously. : EATSHUMBLEPIE
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Oscine bird. : TANAGER
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Conjoint. : UNITED
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Girls. : LASSES
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Barometer. : GLASS
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Braces. : STRUTS
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Dueling weapons. : EPEES
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Ready: Colloq. : ALLSET
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Fragment. : SNATCH
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Remained. : WAS
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Eastern title. : AGHA
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Equine sound. : NEIGH
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Cannae and Actium. : BATTLES
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Merman and others. : ETHELS
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Greek goddess. : ATE
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River bank. : RIPA
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Magnitogorsk's mountains. : URALS
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Punished. : PENANCED
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Miss ___. : THEBUS
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Twining vine. : HOP
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Etats-___. : UNIS
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Lump of earth: Fr. : MOTTE
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Revealed. : BROUGHTTOLIGHT
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Conflagrant. : AFIRE
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Sway. : EMPIRE
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Buyer and seller. : DEALER
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Unsophisticates. : NAIVES
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Heath. : MOOR
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Entertains. : DIVERTS
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Set machinery going. : STARTUP
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Kind of acid from turpentine. : TEREBIC
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Shrewd. : CANNY
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Of class concepts. : IDEOLOGICAL
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Fenced in. : CAGED
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Officers: Abbr. : LTS
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Source of something: Abbr. : DER
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Thread: Fr. : FIL
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Wrecks. : RAZES
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Dessert. : ECLAIR
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Useless. : GOODFORNOTHING
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Dull fellow. : FOGY
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Grayish-blue. : LIVID
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Varieties or forms. : MODES
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Author of "America the Beautiful." : BATES
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Rope. : TETHER
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Silk. : MOIRE
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Historic London tavern. : MITRE
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Alpine pass. : BRENNER
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Sites. : LOCALES
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Firmness. : IRON
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Colossal. : TITANIC
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St. __ Mountains, where Mt. Logan is. : ELIAS
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Spirited. : FIERY
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Honorary degree. : LHD
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Through. : PER
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Kern song hit. : WHO
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Environs. : PURLIEUS
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Blanche of the Met. : THEBOM
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Muscular. : ROBUST
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Awn. : ARISTA
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Black: Comb. form. : MELA
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Nautical ropes. : SHROUDS
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Trenchermen. : DINERS
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Hell. : TOPHET
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Slip away. : ELAPSE
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Taxes. : LEVIES
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Genoese officials. : DOGES
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Calyx part. : SEPAL
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Bias: Colloq. : SLANT
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Relative of the marten. : SABLE
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Wrinkle: Lat. : RUGA
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Hubbub. : STIR
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Injury to pride. : SLAP
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Preface to 14 Down. : LES
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Senatorial nickname. : STU
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Compass point. : ESE

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

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