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Harriet Gilson Rosenberg
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg

New York Times, Tuesday, June 22, 1976

55-Down : "___ pin ... "

Author:
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 43, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { Q V X }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 56, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7 Grid has duplicate clues.
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg has 24 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,810
Across
1
"___ a league onward" : HALF
5
"___ may look on a king" : ACAT
9
Result of a falling-out : SPAT
13
Blue dyes : ANILS
15
Stupor : COMA
16
Poi source : TARO
17
Building material for a pig : STRAW
18
Military group : UNIT
19
Flightless bird : RHEA
20
Mobster's pistol : HEATER
22
"___ but no cigar" : CLOSE
24
Practiced togetherness : TEAMEDUPWITH
29
English or Irish : SETTER
30
Gun girl : ANNIE
31
Wide's partner : FAR
32
Racing-yacht class : SONDER
35
Prefix for plop or plunk : KER
36
Phil Rizzuto exclamation : HOLYCOW
38
Encourage : INSPIRE
40
___ king : ALA
41
Bug : INSECT
43
Musical notes : RES
44
Gifts of John D. : DIMES
46
"___ Bist Du Schoen" : BEIMIR
48
Practiced togetherness : JOINEDFORCES
51
Flu variety : ASIAN
52
Eats away : ERODES
56
Tulip ___ : BULB
59
Like the Sahara : ARID
61
Dwarf : GNOME
62
Russian range : URAL
63
Hitler, for one : NAZI
64
Spooky : EERIE
65
Swamp : MIRE
66
Port of Yemen : ADEN
67
Pro ___ : RATA
Down
1
Jumble : HASH
2
Word with bellum : ANTE
3
Italian money : LIRA
4
It will get you nowhere : FLATTERY
5
Kind of puncture : ACU
6
Anxiety : CONCERN
7
Give ___ rebuke (slap a wrist) : AMILD
8
Giant armadillo : TATOU
9
Scattered : STREWN
10
Cry of contempt : PAH
11
"___ you sure?" : ARE
12
Ode-title words : TOA
14
Kind of potato : SWEET
21
Squeals : RATSON
23
Gets ready for a bout : SPARS
25
Cat sounds : MEOWS
26
More like printers' fingers : INKIER
27
Rows : TIERS
28
Roll-call reply : HERE
29
Sandwich base : SALAMI
31
Page : FOLIO
33
Certain gambler : DICER
34
Lure : ENTICE
36
Trip to Mecca : HADJ
37
Dice-players' sixes: Var. : CISES
39
Zenda man : PRISONER
42
Blacken : EBONIZE
45
Authorize : ENABLE
47
Combine : MERGE
49
Goddess of the hunt : DIANA
50
Electrical unit : FARAD
53
Dumb ___ : DORA
54
Exude : EMIT
55
"___ pin ... " : SEEA
56
Kind of steer : BUM
57
Swiss canton : URI
58
Gibbon : LAR
60
Racket : DIN

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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