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Harold T. Bers
Harold T. Bers

New York Times, Monday, February 25, 1952

41-Down : It's worn by British barristers.

Author:
Harold T. Bers
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 298 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12
Harold T. Bers has 138 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 981
Across
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___ solemnis (High Mass). : MISSA
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Wait. : BIDE
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Sharp projecting part. : JAG
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Required reading for a course in Greek. : ILIAD
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Person revered. : IDOL
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Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. : HARE
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Nonsense. : TOMFOOLERY
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Part of a farm. : ACRE
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Says witty things. : SPARKLES
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Enjoys. : LIKES
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Harbor hazard. : REEF
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Flow forth. : EMANATE
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Frizzly-haired Melanesians. : FIJIS
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Piece of furniture. : OTTOMAN
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Small bills. : ONES
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Popular name for unpopular ailment. : FLU
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Supply with a new designation. : RENAME
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Poetic contraction. : OER
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Machines for strewing hay. : TEDDERS
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Shaft in a mine. : PIT
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Reign in France, 1793-94. : TERROR
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Mountain in Colorado. : OSO
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He's atop Philadelphia's City Hall. : PENN
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Screams, chatters: Colloq. : YAMMERS
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Inspiration for Lindsay and Crouse. : MESTA
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"Camptown Races" nag. : BOBTAIL
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Turkish title. : EMIR
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Is contiguous. : ABUTS
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Bolshevik. : LENINITE
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Seethe. : BOIL
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Problem for Brotherhood Week. : JIMCROWISM
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She: French. : ELLE
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Top. : ACME
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Soil deposits. : SILTS
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Came down suddenly. : LIT
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Affirmatives. : YEAS
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Sly looks. : OGLES
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German preposition. : MIT
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Greek name for the founder of Troy. : ILOS
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Nitwit. : SIMP
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Big game expeditions. : SAFARIS
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Regards with utmost esteem. : ADORES
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Wallet. : BILLFOLD
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French notion. : IDEE
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Where Dorchester is. : DORSET
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English cathedral city. : ELY
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Petty person who affects importance. : JACKANAPES
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A judgment of the French court. : ARRET
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Silly creatures. : GEESE
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Large island off French Indo-China. : HAINAN
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Slangy "yes." : OKE
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Fabrics containing metallic threads. : LAMES
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Havana's landmark, ___ Castle. : MORRO
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A bit of iambic or anapest. : FOOT
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Cousin of curare. : INEE
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Poorly constructed. : JERRYBUILT
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Henry VIII's royal family. : TUDOR
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Atomic scientist, Nobel Prize winner, 1938 : FERMI
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Candy with a certain flavoring. : MINT
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Sight to see in Sicily. : ETNA
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Spanish form of man's name. : TOMAS
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Substances obtained by distillation. : ESSENCES
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Baby's noisemaker. : RATTLE
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It's worn by British barristers. : PERIWIG
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Mid-Pacific island group. : ELLICE
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Baseball's Orestes. : MINOSO
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Sound of a cocktail party. : BABEL
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Greek weights. : OBOLI
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Persian title. : MIR
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Jane Austen novel. : EMMA
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___ Eulenspiegel. : TILL
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Noted Italian family. : ESTE
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First chief justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. : JAY
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Author's papers: Abbr. : MSS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 11 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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