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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

New York Times, Wednesday, February 4, 1959

44-Down : Cooking method.

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,491
Across
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Swift. : RAPID
6
Walk. : PACE
10
Amorous stare. : OGLE
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The girl for Ben Bolt. : ALICE
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Child of Aphrodite. : EROS
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Vaunt. : BRAG
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Phase or aspect. : FACET
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Snugly tight. : TAUT
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Famous Swiss psychiatrist. : JUNG
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Tantalize. : TEASE
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Quality of children. : INNOCENCE
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Ship's speed measure. : KNOT
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Talk hastily and indistinctly. : SPUTTER
26
Misprints. : ERRATA
29
Rebecca of "Rosmersholm." : WEST
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"And the earth is my ___." : FOOTSTOOL
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Literary piece. : ESSAY
37
___ bag, kind of purse. : TOTE
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Fun. : HUMOR
40
Nut to flavor sodas. : KOLA
41
Chic. : SMART
43
Tree that yields turpentine. : TEREBINTH
45
Merit. : EARN
47
Latin dances. : CONGAS
48
I have sinned: Lat. : PECCAVI
52
Sideslip. : SKID
53
Unconscious neglect. : OVERSIGHT
55
Telephone wires. : LINES
59
Had on. : WORE
60
Water: Span. : AGUA
61
Elephant trophy. : IVORY
62
___ out (makes additions to). : EKES
63
Reveal. : TELL
64
Composer Ethelbert. : NEVIN
65
Remainder. : REST
66
Epochal. : ERAL
67
Lissome beauty. : GRACE
Down
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Emergency boat. : RAFT
2
Wings. : ALAE
3
Typewriter type size. : PICA
4
Winter sportsman. : ICESKATER
5
Catches, in machinery. : DETENTS
6
___ point (tent stitch). : PETIT
7
Islands near Ireland. : ARAN
8
Perry Mason, for one. : COUNSELOR
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Bars. : ESTOPS
10
___ d'art. : OBJET
11
Deep, guttural sound. : GRUNT
12
Cavalry weapon. : LANCE
13
Kind of moth. : EGGER
22
Attractive, as a child. : CUTE
24
Solemn affirmation. : OATH
26
Newts. : EFTS
27
A place to hang one's hat. : ROOM
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Roster. : ROTA
29
Queens. : WOMEN
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Canoe with an extension. : OUTRIGGER
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Indulger in water sport. : SKINDIVER
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Tune. : SONG
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Where Calgary is: Abbr. : ALTA
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Derisive cries. : YAHS
39
Head: Archaic. : RECK
42
Light collations. : TEAS
44
Cooking method. : BOILING
46
Fly in the sky. : AVIATE
48
Capacity for action. : POWER
49
Summon forth. : EVOKE
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Mother Earth. : CERES
51
Peak. : CREST
52
Fail, as an engine. : STALL
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Recent hoop hoopla. : HULA
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Suddenly flaring star. : NOVA
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___ the Red. : ERIC
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Since: Scot. : SYNE

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

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