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Louise Earnest
Louise Earnest

New York Times, Thursday, April 14, 1966

53-Down : Common plants.

Author:
Louise Earnest
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6 Grid has duplicate clues.
Louise Earnest has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1966, The New York TimesNo. 6,088
Across
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Break. : RIFT
5
Fruit of the rosebush. : HIPS
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Helps with the dishes. : WIPES
14
That one: Lat. : ILLA
15
Thine: Fr. : ATOI
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Piano key. : EFLAT
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Prelude at Kennedy. : COUNTDOWN
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Lady of sonnets and canzoni. : LAURA
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Poetic time of day. : EVE
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Bonanza. : OILWELL
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Foxy. : SLY
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Job for a jeweler. : RESET
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God of the Nile. : OSIRIS
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Begin again. : RENEW
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Cordial. : GENIAL
34
Masculine title. : HERR
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Letter. : ESS
38
Argue about price. : HAGGLE
39
A storm in ___. : ATEACUP
41
Name in the world of dance. : STDENIS
42
Relative of the shagbark. : WALNUT
43
Digit. : TOE
44
Compass points. : SSES
45
Pitcher's forte. : SLIDER
46
American novelist. : HURST
48
Thrilling episode. : ESCAPE
50
On one side. : ASKEW
54
Eleven: Ger. : ELF
56
Kind of fabric design. : ALLOVER
59
Chemical suffix. : OLE
60
One product of the grapevine. : RUMOR
62
Popular refreshment. : ORANGEADE
64
___ out. : INAND
65
Direction. : WEST
66
Resort lake in Yugoslavia. : BLED
67
May and Ann. : CAPES
68
Capt. Hook's aide. : SMEE
69
Stars' partner. : BARS
Down
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Kitchen utensil. : RICER
2
Words on a valentine. : ILOVE
3
Chimneys. : FLUES
4
Brownish. : TAN
5
"___ but known!" : HADI
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Chemical suffix. : ITOL
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Confabs. : POWWOWS
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Mathematical ratios. : SINES
9
Like a bookworm. : WELLREAD
10
"___ man answers, hang up." : IFA
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Positive symbols. : PLUSSIGNS
12
Snowdon. : EARL
13
Postponement. : STAY
18
Handbag, modern style. : TOTE
22
Dashboard gadget. : LIGHTER
25
Chores of a kind. : ERRANDS
27
Takes food. : INGESTS
29
Unaligned. : NEUTRAL
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Sixth sense, for short. : ESP
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What Byron calls "the truth in masquerade." : ALIE
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Minus. : LESS
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Teamsters' calls. : HAWS
35
Relative of etc. : ETAL
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Item in a classroom. : RELIEFMAP
40
Studio props. : CUECARDS
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Old coin. : SOU
43
Proposition in geometry. : THEOREM
47
Marionette man. : SARG
49
Sod breakers. : PLOWS
51
Marsupial. : KOALA
52
Common shrub. : ELDER
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Common plants. : WEEDS
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Norse name. : ERIC
55
Kind of moth. : LUNA
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Decorative container. : VASE
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Being: Sp. : ENTE
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Unit. : ONE
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Decline. : EBB

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

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