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James Nesi
James Nesi

New York Times, Saturday, February 17, 1951

34-Down : Organizer of Boy Scout movement in U. S.

Author:
James Nesi
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.36, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.32)
Open Squares: 83, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 18
James Nesi has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1951, The New York TimesNo. 608
Across
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The Living Buddha of Tibet. : DALAILAMA
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Watch by night. : VIGIL
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Haile Selassie's country: Native name. : ABYSSINIA
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Silly. : INANE
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English Protestant. : DISSENTER
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Evergreen tree of North America and Asia. : TSUGA
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___ Baba. : ALI
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Bridle strap. : REIN
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Dipped water from. : BAILED
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Cleopatra's nemesis. : ASP
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Sets upon with vilence. : ASSAILS
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Hard to believe, as a story: Colloq. : TALL
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Remove cattle from restraining frames. : UNSTOCK
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Capital of the Keystone State. : HARRISBURG
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Repeat. : ECHO
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Once more. : AGAIN
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High note of the gamut. : ELA
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Peruvian Indian. : INCAN
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Bah!: Slang. : RATS
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Heavy material for stabilizing a ship. : BALLASTING
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Perfidious person. : TRAITOR
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Disposed of. : SOLD
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Caustic. : ERODENT
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Affirmative vote. : YEA
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Vice President of the U. S., 1933-1941. : GARNER
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New Zealand tree with reddish wood. : TORU
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Former New Deal agency. : NRA
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Miss Massey of stage and radio. : ILONA
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Became doubled or paired. : GEMINATED
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Disabled. : LAMED
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Part of a sentence. : PREDICATE
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___ circle at the opera. : DRESS
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Displaces. : UNSETTLES
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Baby's first word. : DADA
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One of the Pillars of Hercules. : ABILA
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Comedy by Aristophanes. : LYSISTRATA
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Balaam's talking animal. : ASS
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Bohemian river. : ISER
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Direct descendants. : LINEALS
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Those against. : ANTIS
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Airs. : MIENS
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Swiss river. : AAR
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The essential parts. : VITALS
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Perseveringly. : INSISTENTLY
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Frenchman. : GAUL
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Ex-Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. : INGE
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Graphite. : LEAD
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Mr. Music. : BING
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Certain French ladies. : PARISIENNES
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Pertaining to the ear. : AURAL
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He wrote "Moment in Peking." : LIN
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Western. : OCCIDENTAL
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Mr. Biggers' Chinese detective. : CHAN
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The greatest gorilla of them all. : KONG
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American playwright Moss ___. : HART
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Product of certain seaweeds. : AGAR
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Organizer of Boy Scout movement in U. S. : BEARD
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Stepson of Thor: Norse myth. : ULL
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Equal: Comb. form. : ISO
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Clownish person. : BOOR
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Straddling. : ASTRIDE
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Thickened faces of auto tires. : TREADS
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Without end: Poet. : ETERN
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Provinces of Greece. : NOMES
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Rugged mountain crest. : ARETE
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Embellish. : GILD
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Wing-shaped. : ALAR
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City of the Seven Hills. : ROME
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Single entity. : UNIT
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Fruit beverages. : ADES
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U.S.S.R. secret service from 1922 to 1935. : GPU
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Division of a play. : ACT

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 14 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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