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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

SOLVER'S HOLIDAY

New York Times, Sunday, December 19, 1948

54-Down : Luster.

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 64, Avg Word Len: 5.46, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 528 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 133, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 45
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1948, The New York TimesNo. 358
Across
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Great times. : EPOCHS
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Beethoven's unwritten symphony. : TENTH
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Sophoulis' country. : GREECE
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Where Linz is. : AUSTRIA
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Large parrot with long tail. : ARARA
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Bulwark. : RAMPART
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Boxing. : CRATING
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Mask. : VISOR
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Cattle-grazing official: Eng. : AGISTER
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The bluff king. : HAL
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Manner of walking. : STEP
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Pounds. : THUMPS
30
Girl's nickname. : LOTTA
31
Doctrine swallowers. : ISTS
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More of a fox. : SLIER
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To the point. : TERSE
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Meddle: Scot. : MIRD
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Relationship of Duchess of Edinburgh to Duke of Windsor. : NIECE
40
Arabia Felix. : YEMEN
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The grandeur that was Rome. : RUINS
44
Sprechen ___ Deutsch? : SIE
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Car barn. : GARAGE
47
Had the cup that cheers. : TEAED
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White water lily. : NENUPHAR
51
Bookworm. : READER
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Fierce. : TIGERISH
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Goose: Italian. : OCA
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Affirm. : AVER
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"In the first person, simply ___ foretells." : SHALL
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Capital of Cochin-China. : SAIGON
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Presidential advisers. : CABINET
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Ineffective. : STERILE
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Philippine hardwood. : NARRA
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Friction spots. : RUBS
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Pigboat manners. : SUBMARINERS
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Hole in the boat. : LEAK
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Dead paper-hanger. : ADOLF
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Radicel. : ROOTLET
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Felt through the senses. : SENSATE
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Pope said, "___'s my weapon." : SATIRE
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Jaeger gulls. : SKUAS
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Guinea pig. : CAVY
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Ballplayer Williams. : TED
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Boreal. : NORTHERN
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But just. : BARELY
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Russian novelist, "Fathers and Sons." : TURGENEV
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Icelandic poems. : EDDAS
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Stirs. : ROUSES
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Longshoremen's union. : ILA
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Lady's gown of 1700. : SEMAR
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Colors of a racing stable. : SILKS
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Brazilian city across from Dakar. : NATAL
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Ankara's man in the street. : TURK
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The Schlossbrücke crosses it. : SPREE
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Was torpid. : SLEPT
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Cyrano's misfortune. : NOSE
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Nom de guerre. : ALIAS
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Cousins to the giraffe. : OKAPIS
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Animal: Ger. : TIER
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Keystone movie prop. : PIE
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Swimmer. : NATATOR
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Reads closely. : PORES
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State cop. : TROOPER
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Staying power. : STAMINA
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Dictum. : EDICT
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Long and uninteresting. : ENDLESS
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Paint. : ENAMEL
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Sluggish: Dial. : RESTY
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What Negeb is. : DESERT
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Giant land mass. : EURASIA
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Boss of David's songs. : PSALTER
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Baseball manager Mel. : OTT
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Malay dagger. : CRIS
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Suggestions. : HINTS
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With wisdom. : SAGELY
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Hebrew letter. : TAV
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Asmara is its capital. : ERITREA
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Ogden, the zany rimester. : NASH
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Rainbow ___. : TROUT
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Hurtful one. : HARMER
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Richer in verdure. : GRASSIER
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Shabby garment. : RAG
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Actor Jannings. : EMIL
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Where "The Oaks" is run. : EPSOM
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Feline. : CATTISH
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City of ancient Greece, ruins explored 1890-95. : ERETRIA
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Painful. : ACHING
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Merchantman. : TRADER
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Stuyvesant's first name. : PIETER
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Prune packed without the skin. : PRUNELLE
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Catface. : SCAR
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Legendary Irish beauty. : EMER
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Capital of County Clare, I. F. S. : ENNIS
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Sea between Greece and Turkey: Var. : EGEAN
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Benelux unit : NETHERLANDS
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Girl's name meaning a lily. : SUSAN
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Roof overhangs. : EAVES
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James Byrnes' forte. : DIARIES
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Bottles. : PHIALS
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Book for honor students at Harvard. : DETUR
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Luster. : GLINT
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Pods used in soup. : OCRAS
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Tail. : CAUDA
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"The ___."—Scott. : ABBOT
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Size. : STATURE
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Capital: Slang. : GREAT
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Make speeches. : ORATE
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Unclad. : NAKED
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Placing in isolation. : ISLING
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Kipling's "good cigar." : SMOKE
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Turkoman. : ERSAR
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South African wild hog: Var. : BOSHVARK
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Disjoin. : SEVER
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Cleaving tools. : FROES
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Coal, air and water. : NYLON
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Sea eagles. : ERNES
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Where Portia hid her picture. : CASKET
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Transitory. : TEMPORAL
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Defeated Senator from Minnesota. : BALL
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Dollar of the Chinese Republic. : YUAN
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Uncles and aunts of Zeus. : TITANS
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Howl like a wolf. : ULULATE
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Perth Amboy's river. : RARITAN
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Anatomize. : DISSECT
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Good card in a bridge hand. : STOPPER
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Simplest. : EASIEST
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Mocks: Dial. : SLEERS
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Prototype of Father Time. : REAPER
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Hurt with malice. : SPITED
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Hartebeest. : KAAMA
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The aftersong. : EPODE
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Coat with tin-lead alloy. : TERNE
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Incentive: Slang. : STIM
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Messenger of the gods. : IRIS
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Scepters. : RODS
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Number. : ONE
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Pen. : STY
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Violinist Bull. : OLE

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 37 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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