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Arthur Schulman
Arthur Schulman

New York Times, Friday, December 16, 1966

50-Down : Chemical fat.

Author:
Arthur Schulman
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 344 (avg 1.80)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11
Arthur Schulman has 80 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1966, The New York TimesNo. 6,334
Across
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Mother of Isaac. : SARAH
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Bait. : WORM
10
Letter addenda. : PPS
13
Guamanian port. : AGANA
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Hodgepodge. : OLIO
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Genus of swans. : OLOR
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Forbidding country. : NOMANSLAND
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Proscription. : TABU
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Intermittently. : ONANDOFF
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Ready for the printer. : EDITED
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"___ Well ... " : ALLS
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Kind of shirt or dress. : DRIPDRY
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Slipped by. : PASSED
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Mainland Japan. : HONSHU
29
Outside: Prefix. : EXO
30
Chief god of the Philistines. : DAGON
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Moslem title for pilgrim to Mecca. : HAJJI
35
Vibrate. : BEAT
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That is ___. : TOSAY
39
No contest. : ROUT
40
A beginning. : ALPHA
42
Pause. : LETUP
44
Numerical prefix. : UNI
45
Helped an infant, in a way. : BURPED
47
Office workers. : CLERKS
49
Kind of tree. : SOURGUM
51
Surface film. : SCUM
52
England, poetically. : ALBION
53
Gingham. : CHAMBRAY
57
Clifton of stage fame. : WEBB
58
Creator of Buck Mulligan. : JAMESJOYCE
60
Threshold. : SILL
61
"The King ___." : ANDI
62
American greeting. : ALOHA
63
Born. : NEE
64
Yelp. : BARK
65
Bishop's headdress. : MITER
Down
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In corpore ___. : SANO
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Stravinsky ballet. : AGON
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Hindu god. : RAMA
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Pineapple: Sp. : ANANAS
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Managed. : HANDLED
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Eats greedily. : WOLFS
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Norse name. : OLAF
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___-Tin-Tin. : RIN
9
New. : MODERN
10
Egyptian who owned Joseph: Gen. 39. : POTIPHAR
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French menu entry. : PLATDUJOUR
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Not at all frivolous. : SOBER
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Vallee. : RUDY
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Army man: Fr. : SOLDAT
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See 11 Down. : DISH
24
Actor who played Mr. Chips. : DONAT
25
Armadillo. : PEBA
26
Swedish name. : AXEL
27
Fragile sphere. : SOAPBUBBLE
28
Washed down. : HOSED
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Robot of Jewish legend. : GOLEM
33
Chinese ship. : JUNK
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"___ a far, far better thing ... " : ITIS
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Incense burner. : THURIBLE
38
Plants of the lily family. : YUCCAS
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Mythical ship. : ARGO
43
Breakfast spread. : PLUMJAM
46
Where Lahore is. : PUNJAB
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Blood clots. : EMBOLI
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Maxims. : SAWS
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Chemical fat. : OLEIN
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Arab chieftain. : SHEIK
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Naval rank: Abbr. : CMDR
54
Indian peasant. : RYOT
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Yearn. : ACHE
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Four seasons. : YEAR
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Miscellanea. : ANA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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