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Sidney Lambert
Sidney Lambert

New York Times, Thursday, April 19, 1962

23-Down : "This is the ___, Mr. Jones ... "

Author:
Sidney Lambert
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Sidney Lambert has 114 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,661
Across
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Horn, for one. : CAPE
5
Tin-pan alley acronym. : ASCAP
10
Diminutive suffixes. : ULES
14
Culture medium. : AGAR
15
Take from: Archaic. : REAVE
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Editor of Webster III. : GOVE
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Leader. : PACESETTER
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Region of Arabia. : ADEN
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Estuary: Sp. : RIA
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Part of a monogram: Abbr. : INIT
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Most lucid. : SANEST
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Succinctly. : INSOMANYWORDS
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Back: Fr. : DOS
28
Dwellers. : INMATES
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Oxlike quadruped. : BISON
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Philippine island. : PANAY
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Common Latin verb. : AMO
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___ for one's money. : ARUN
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Jury. : PANEL
39
___ of replevin. : WRIT
40
Jewish title. : RAB
41
Legions. : HOSTS
42
Must. : HASTO
43
Unworthy of. : BENEATH
45
Spanish title. : CID
46
Anything else of the sort. : ORWHATHAVEYOU
52
Line of planking, in shipbuilding. : STRAKE
54
Lasted. : WORE
55
Fictional "Cap'n." : ERI
56
Cuts of meat. : HAMS
57
Causes much trouble: Slang. : RAISESCAIN
60
Botanical wings. : ALAE
61
Plural noun suffix. : ENCES
62
Of a Christian church: Abbr. : PROT
63
Unite. : WELD
64
Legal documents. : DEEDS
65
Gertrude Lawrence role. : ANNA
Down
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Neighbor of Ischia. : CAPRI
2
Further. : AGAIN
3
Large rodents. : PACAS
4
Cockney's "present." : ERE
5
Cockpits. : ARENAS
6
Began. : SETIN
7
Oriental weight. : CATTY
8
Penn. ___., D. C. : AVE
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Individual. : PERSONAL
10
African land. : UGANDA
11
Guiding ideals. : LODESTARS
12
Women. : EVES
13
Enabled to go. : SENT
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Nursery rhyme name. : SIMON
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"This is the ___, Mr. Jones ... " : ARMY
25
Toothed: Prefix. : ODON
26
Sherries. : WINES
29
Issue. : EMIT
30
De ___. : SOTO
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Sharp point. : BARB
32
Dies ___. : IRAE
33
Below par. : SUBNORMAL
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Mustafa Kemal. : PASHA
35
Insect. : ANT
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Fussed. : POTHERED
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___ into (begin energetically). : WADE
41
Falcon. : HAWK
42
Swarms. : HIVES
44
Wiped out. : ERASED
45
Act of affection. : CARESS
47
Doubly. : TWICE
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Drenched, as the lawn. : HOSED
49
Feel tenderness. : YEARN
50
Hunter loved by Diana. : ORION
51
Rocky Mountain range. : UINTA
52
One of T. E. Lawrence's names. : SHAW
53
Account. : TALE
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Chemical suffix. : ANE
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Sometime tax expert. : CPA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later.

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