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Charlotte Stickney
Charlotte Stickney

New York Times, Monday, February 8, 1954

8-Down : Vigilant.

Author:
Charlotte Stickney
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 307 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
Charlotte Stickney has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,686
Across
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Tennis stroke. : CHOP
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Former movie censor. : HAYS
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Church sections. : APSES
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At this time. : HERE
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Egg-shaped. : OVAL
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Addendum to a constitution. : BYLAW
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Oil-rich country. : IRAN
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Ripped. : TORE
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Wrathful. : IRATE
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Ike's airplane. : COLUMBINE
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President's reception. : LEVEE
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Important House chairman. : REED
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At hand. : PRESENT
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Depended. : RELIED
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Valley. : GLEN
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Ninny. : IDIOT
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Modern queen. : FREDERIKA
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Former initials of M.V.D. : OGPU
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Dr. ___, author of juveniles. : SEUSS
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Israeli in U.N. : EBAN
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Companions at table. : MESSMATES
41
Harsh. : STERN
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Angle between leaf and stem. : AXIL
43
Wheedles. : COAXES
44
Declines. : REFUSES
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Hoop-shaped handle. : BAIL
49
Bestir one's self. : EXERT
50
Part of a car. : HEADLIGHT
55
Lost weekend. : BINGE
56
In the same place: Lat. abbr. : IBID
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Mischa of the stage. : AUER
58
Worrier's harvest. : ULCER
59
Spore cases on a fern. : SORI
60
Fiction. : TALE
61
Feeling low: Colloq. : SEEDY
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Part of the handwriting on the wall. : MENE
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Diminutive of a girl's name. : EMMY
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Fashionable. : CHIC
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Beau ideal. : HERO
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Spoken. : ORAL
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Stingy. : PENURIOUS
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Place of rapid growth, often of unwelcome things. : HOTBED
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Shun. : AVOID
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Tall story. : YARN
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Vigilant. : SLEEPLESS
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Site of Ike's museum. : ABILENE
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Funeral fires. : PYRES
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Great ___ Lake, in Canada. : SLAVE
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Dined. : EATEN
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A dessert, in Britain. : SWEET
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Proper. : MEET
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Pieces on one side of a checkerboard. : REDS
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Site of Vichy trial of French leaders, 1942. : RIOM
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Sharpness. : EDGE
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Margins. : LIPS
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Menu item for convalescents. : GRUEL
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Belief in magical objects. : FETISHISM
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Return evil for evil. : RETALIATE
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Wild goat of the Alps. : IBEX
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"Kamp Kill ___." : KARE
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Miss Sothern and others. : ANNS
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___ Coburg. : SAXE
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The upper hand. : MASTERY
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Earth. : SOIL
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Ike's companion on the links. : CADDIE
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Kind of puzzle. : REBUS
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Banishment. : EXILE
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Avoid giving a direct reply. : FENCE
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Incited. : URGED
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Wee laddie. : BAIRN
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Tropical tree. : EBOE
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Largest of the Marianas Islands. : GUAM
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Rudder. : HELM
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Three-spot. : TREY

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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