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Geraldine W. King
Geraldine W. King

New York Times, Thursday, May 28, 1959

49-Down : Goober.

Author:
Geraldine King
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.72, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 300 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Geraldine W. King has 7 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Geraldine King is an alias for Geraldine W. King.
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© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,604
Across
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Trinket. : CHARM
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Bit. : SNIP
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Bring up. : REAR
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Kind of soprano. : LYRIC
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Korean border river. : YALU
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700-mi. river into North Sea. : ELBE
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Accepted phrase. : IDIOM
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Travelers' respites. : STOPOVERS
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Foot: Comb. form. : PED
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Preposition: Poet. : UNTO
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Antarctic phenomenon. : ICECAP
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Hillside near a loch. : BRAE
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High: Lat. : ALTA
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Fencer. : SWORDSMAN
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Hebrew letter. : ALEPH
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Art objects valued as rarities. : CURIOS
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Time of day. : NOON
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Overly. : TOO
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Biblical name for Syria. : ARAM
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German surrealist painter. : ERNST
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Crowded with. : FULL
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Summer time. : DST
43
Indian. : CREE
44
Surveying instrument for mapping: Var. : ALIDAD
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Chest: Comb. form. : STETH
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Shackleton, Scott, and Hillary. : EXPLORERS
50
Sweetened biscuit. : RUSK
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Conceits: Colloq. : EGOS
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Guarantee. : ENSURE
56
Mows and cures grass. : HAYS
57
Sforzando: Mus. abbr. : SFZ
60
Air Force Base in S. C., take-off to Antarctica. : DONALDSON
62
Silas Marner's foster child. : EPPIE
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Town on the Thames. : ETON
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Knee. : GENU
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Part of a springe trap. : NOOSE
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Eft. : NEWT
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Discharge. : EMIT
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Namesakes of a son of Adam. : SETHS
Down
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Rapid pace: Colloq. : CLIP
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Famous Park. : HYDE
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Lifeless. : ARID
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River: Span. : RIO
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Sound in Antarctica. : MCMURDO
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Set of rules. : SYSTEM
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North Atlantic group. : NATO
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Large group of workers: Abbr. : ILO
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Student. : PUPIL
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Divulge. : REVEAL
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A form of energy: Abbr. : ELEC
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Mountain gap in the Southwest. : ABRA
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Breathing: Abbr. : RESP
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Occurring every eight days. : OCTAN
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Cairene in the headlines. : NASSER
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Projecting edge. : BRIM
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Years: Span. : ANOS
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Loads: Colloq. : SCADS
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Sausage: Ger. : WURST
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Speak pompously. : ORATE
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Addition to a building. : ANNEX
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Musical piece. : ETUDE
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Describing regions of Antarctica. : POLAR
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Cargo areas on ships. : HOLDS
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Earache. : OTALGY
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Emit fumes. : REEK
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Evergreens. : FIRS
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Miserly person. : CHURL
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Unbinds. : LOOSENS
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Shirker. : TRUANT
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Goober. : PEANUT
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Coarse grasslike plant. : SEDGE
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Site of the tree of life. : EDEN
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Bird's call. : NOTE
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Hazard of polar travel. : SNOW
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First word of Order of the Garter motto. : HONI
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Mark. : SPOT
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Robalo or bonito. : FISH
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Final letters. : ZEES
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School: Abbr. : SEM
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Literary figure. : POE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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