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Hume R. Craft
Hume R. Craft

BRIGHTWORK

New York Times, Sunday, December 5, 1971

98-Down : Arabic letters

Author:
Hume R. Craft
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 172, Blocks: 92, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 664 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 123, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 14, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 28
Hume R. Craft has 35 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Clue for 111-Down is as it appeared in original, but the actual quote from the movie "Casablanca" is "Play it, Sam."

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© 1971, The New York TimesNo. 8,149
Across
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Psalm word : SELAH
6
Birch : BAYH
10
Tempo : PACE
14
Saunter : AMBLE
19
Camera pole : UNIPOD
21
___ animo (calmly) : AEQUO
22
Roman wife : UXOR
23
Casaba : MELON
24
Fall back : RETIRE
25
Sailor's sounding lead : BLUEPIGEON
27
" ... nothing like ___" : ADAME
28
Plant of arum family : GREENDRAGON
30
TV's Calmer : NED
31
Plays the vamp : ENTICES
33
Dawn goddess : EOS
34
Photo, for short : PIC
35
Insect : ANT
36
A carrot and ___ : ASTICK
37
Flour pot : SIEVE
39
Red: Sp. : ROJO
41
Convenes : SITS
42
___ cadabra : ABRA
45
What Gelett Burgess never did : SAWAPURPLECOW
49
Tax org. : IRS
50
Music groups : TRIOS
51
Winged : ALATE
52
Certain party people: Abbr. : LIBS
53
Draws a bead on : AIMS
55
Pieces of flinty rock : CHERTS
56
Snoop : NOSE
57
Eye: Prefix : OCULO
59
Of a body fluid : LYMPHOID
61
In ___ time : DUE
62
Burn out : GUT
63
Former believer : APOSTATE
65
Praise, old style : PLAUD
66
Fish : EELS
67
Kind of floss : DENTAL
69
Kids : RAGS
71
Poet's word : OFT
72
Others: Sp. : OTRAS
73
Anti-union ploy : YELLOWDOGCONTRACT
78
Fads : RAGES
81
Miquelon, e.g. : ILE
82
Jerusalem hill: Var. : SION
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Cornell's home : ITHACA
86
Libido : EROS
87
Over : ENDED
89
Centerpieces : EPERGNES
92
He, in Paris : LUI
94
Gal of song : SAL
95
Yorick's predecessor : ALASPOOR
97
Buckler of old : TARGE
98
Williams et al. : TEDS
99
Turkish sultans : ABDULS
101
Baseball's Francona : TITO
102
Hess, for one : NAZI
103
Weizmann : CHAIM
104
Sky scales : LIBRA
105
Ziegler, to Nixon : RON
106
Barfly's fancy : PINKELEPHANTS
110
Tense : TAUT
111
N.C.O. : SERG
112
Winner at Brandywine : HOWE
113
Father of Oedipus : LAIUS
114
Prayer : LITANY
116
Dictionary entry: Abbr. : SYN
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Indian weight : SER
118
Degree for space men : EAA
121
Kind of mat : WELCOME
123
Old hand : VET
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Features of whodunits : REDHERRINGS
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Believer: Suffix : ARIAN
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Canadian capital : WHITEHORSE
133
Hair tints : RINSES
134
Onward : ALONG
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Stutz, for one : AUTO
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Bean : ORSON
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Put up with : ENDURE
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Time periods: Abbr. : CENTS
139
Kind of diet : LEAN
140
Logwood and catechu : DYES
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"Whither ___ thou?" : GOEST
Down
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Billow : SURGE
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Spanish month : ENERO
3
Rock suffixes : LITES
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Cap-___ : APIE
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Salty dance : HORNPIPE
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Neighbor of Neth. : BELG
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Water: Prefix : AQUO
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Chinese river : YUEN
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Short trip : HOP
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Sound of West Coast : PUGET
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Fired : AXED
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Dove talk : COO
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Borgnine, etc. : ERNESTS
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Cremonan : AMATI
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Health program : MEDICARE
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Pacific slave ship : BLACKBIRDER
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Capital of Togo : LOME
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Chemical suffixes : ENES
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Of God: Fr. : DEDIEU
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Arab robe : ABA
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Not at all : INNOWAY
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Phone part: Abbr. : RCVR
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Theater ad abbr. : NTS
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Garlic, in Lima : AJO
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Ventilator : AIRSHAFT
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Stuff : SATE
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Report-card entry : EPLUS
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Get back on : REBOARD
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Mil. school : OCS
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Famed Alpine pass : SIMPLON
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Kneecap : ROTULA
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Evaluate : ASSESS
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___-froid : SANG
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Orally : ALOUD
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Fritter : WASTE
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Swing : LILT
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Cleric's degree : THD
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Prankish one : IMP
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Spanish hero : CID
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October stone : OPAL
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Hill, in Italy : COLLINA
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Longer-limbed : LEGGIER
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Make a louder sound : OUTRING
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Sweetsop : ATES
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N.M. resort : TAOS
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Girl's name : ETTA
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Humorist et al. : NYES
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Old English poet : SCOP
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U.S. publisher : OCHS
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The same ___ : OLDSTORY
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Like a willow : WEEPING
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Words for a movie sequence : ONETAKE
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To ___ (exactly) : ATEE
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Add more seasoning : RESALT
79
Lawrence's place : ARABIA
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High-priced bars : GOLDBULLION
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Not radioactive : CLEAN
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C.P.A. job : AUDIT
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City lines : ELS
88
Speck : DOT
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Demolish : RAZE
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Cook-out unit : GRILL
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Doctrines : ISMS
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State: Abbr. : ALA
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Botanical cycle : OOPHYTE
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Arabic letters : THAS
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Stinging : URTICANT
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Compass reading : NNW
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Insect sound : CHURRING
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Urban task : RENEWAL
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Euripides title : ION
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At ___ (resting) : EASE
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State capital : PIERRE
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"Play it again, ___" : SAM
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Eastern societies : TONGS
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Nature writer : SETON
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Follow : ENSUE
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Textile workers : AGERS
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Entry in black : ASSET
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W.W. II girl : WAAC
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___ Gardner : ERLE
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" ... ___ brevis" : VITA
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Movies' Calhoun : RORY
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Gaelic : ERSE
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Brit. medals : DSOS
127
Brooder : HEN
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Blue: Prefix : INDO
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Vietnam port : HUE
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Trough : HOD

Answer summary:
18 unique to this puzzle, 10 debuted here and reused later, 9 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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