Bernice Gorden is often credited with inventing the crossword rebus (this is her first) but there were predecessors in the 1950s.
1 R | 2 A | 3 N | 4 C | 5 E | 6 Q | 7 U | 8 A | 9 S | 10 I | 11 J | 12 O | 13 S | 14 E | 15 S | 16 T | 17 I | 18 R | 19 E | ||||
20 E | V | O | R | A | 21 U | N | M | A | N | 22 A | V | A | N | T | 23 I | R | A | N | 24 I |
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25 C | A | D | I | S | 26 A | M | I | S | S | 27 M | A | L | T | A | 28 M | O | N | T | S |
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29 A | L | O | S | T | 30 K | A | S | H | A | 31 A | L | E | R | T | 32 E | N | D | I | S |
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33 S | O | U | P | & | 34 F | I | S | H | 35 T | 36 A | I | 37 P | A | U | 38 L | & | M | A | R | Y |
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39 T | N | S | 40 W | I | N | K | 41 C | I | R | C | 42 A | 43 P | R | E | T | O | N | E | ||||
44 B | E | R | G | 45 S | E | A | S | A | N | 46 D | 47 E | G | I | L | ||||||||
48 P | 49 H | 50 R | A | S | E | 51 C | O | N | T | E | S | T | E | 52 E | 53 E | D | D | 54 I | 55 E | 56 D |
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57 R | E | A | C | T | S | 58 O | F | T | E | N | 59 W | B | N | 60 N | E | S | T | L | E |
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61 O | M | S | K | 62 U | 63 L | N | A | 64 I | 65 R | E | L | A | 66 N | D | 67 E | V | E |
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68 P | E | 69 P | P | E | D | 70 C | U | R | A | R | I | 71 A | 72 C | R | E | D |
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73 D | 74 O | B | R | A | 75 S | U | 76 G | 77 A | 78 R | & | S | P | I | C | E | 79 B | O | A | R | S |
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80 I | D | E | S | T | 81 S | C | I | P | I | O | 82 H | U | 83 B | E | R | T | ||||||
84 S | T | R | 85 R | E | T | R | I | A | L | 86 K | I | W | I | 87 V | I | 88 E | 89 W |
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90 C | A | R | 91 A | 92 F | E | 93 O | D | A | 94 D | 95 A | 96 L | E | N | 97 O | 98 C | I | O | S | O |
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99 S | A | Y | E | R | S | 100 R | E | T | 101 E | L | L | I | N | G | 102 L | A | N | N | E | E |
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103 S | E | T | 104 A | 105 D | O | N | A | T | E | S | 106 R | O | T | E | ||||||||
107 E | 108 S | T | E | E | M | 109 S | 110 R | A | C | E | D | 111 B | E | G | S | 112 B | 113 B | 114 B |
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115 R | I | C | H | & | P | O | O | 116 R | 117 M | E | R | 118 B | O | D | Y | & | 119 S | O | U | L |
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120 A | L | L | E | E | 121 U | N | I | 122 T | E | 123 C | 124 A | L | O | R | 125 D | E | N | T | E |
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126 M | E | E | T | A | 127 N | O | V | E | L | 128 A | C | U | T | E | 129 O | B | I | T | S |
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130 P | E | R | E | S | 131 T | R | A | C | E | 132 T | I | N | E | S | 133 G | A | T | E | S |
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134 N | O | S | Y | 135 S | A | L | A | D | 136 E | S | T | E | S | 137 S | T | O | R | E |
Answer summary:
19 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 19 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.