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Herman Keld
Herman Keld

New York Times, Monday, February 23, 1959

49-Down : Plant of the desert.

Author:
Herman Keld
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { Z }, Scrabble score: 303 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Herman Keld has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,510
Across
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Rumor, personified. : FAMA
5
Cotton wadded in sheets. : BATTS
10
Foray. : RAID
14
Caliph's name. : OMAR
15
Fit out. : EQUIP
16
Indian. : ERIE
17
Percussion instrument. : GONG
18
Inveigler. : LURER
19
Fall in globules. : DRIP
20
Uniform of a sort. : GRAYFLANNELSUIT
23
Card game. : LOO
24
Bench. : SEAT
25
Became golden. : YELLOWED
30
Parch by heat. : SCORCH
34
First lady. : EVE
35
Made moist. : DEWED
37
Nocturnal sound. : SNORE
38
Dry up. : SEAR
40
Hesitate. : DEMUR
42
German river. : EDER
43
Slipped. : ERRED
45
Lawmaker. : SOLON
47
Tokyo's former name. : EDO
48
Agent of a corporation. : SYNDIC
50
Once in a ___. : BLUEMOON
52
Jagged projection. : SNAG
54
Monetary unit of Rumania. : LEU
55
Objectives of wearers of 20 Across. : WHITECOLLARJOBS
63
"Eyes" of beans, peas, etc.: Bot. : HILA
64
Cornered: Colloq. : TREED
65
Dies ___, Judgment Day. : IRAE
66
Affirm. : AVER
67
Official decree. : UKASE
68
Kleagle's group. : KLAN
69
Schoolbook. : TEXT
70
Fills up with sand. : SILTS
71
Method: Abbr. : SYST
Down
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Passepartout's fellow traveler. : FOGG
2
Love, in Spain. : AMOR
3
"Give a ___ horse he can ride ... " : MANA
4
County in Scotland. : ARGYLL
5
Roared. : BELLOWED
6
Decorator's color. : AQUA
7
Rotate. : TURN
8
Indeed!: Fr. : TIENS
9
Frolics. : SPREES
10
Arsenal in Alabama. : REDSTONE
11
Island group S. of New Guinea. : ARRU
12
IV. : IIII
13
Field of activity: Abbr. : DEPT
21
Rations. : FOOD
22
Resinous substances. : LACS
25
Certain replies. : YESES
26
All. : EVERY
27
Become aware of. : LEARN
28
Members of the flock. : EWES
29
Disband, as troops: Brit. colloq. : DEMOB
31
Cattle round-up. : RODEO
32
Set of opinions. : CREDO
33
Egret. : HERON
36
Uninteresting. : DULL
39
Fly-catching warbler. : REDSTART
41
Vocal flourishes. : ROULADES
44
Wine and ___. : DINE
46
___-do-well. : NEER
49
Plant of the desert. : CACTUS
51
Peasants of czarist Russia: Var. : MUJIKS
53
Novelist Maxim. : GORKI
55
Exclamation of surprise. : WHAT
56
Busy place. : HIVE
57
Evergreen oak. : ILEX
58
Loyal: Scot. : LEAL
59
"___ we forget." : LEST
60
Paris airfield. : ORLY
61
Sounds from the cote. : BAAS
62
Transmitted. : SENT

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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