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Jules Arensberg
Jules Arensberg

New York Times, Saturday, July 11, 1953

26-Down : Fragrant blue-flowered plant.

Author:
Jules Arensberg
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 30, Avg Word Len: 5.42, Missing: { B J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 88, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12
Jules Arensberg has 95 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,483
Across
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Kind of medical practitioner. : ALLOPATH
9
Successor to the pince-nez: Colloq. : SPECS
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Volcano 13,675 feet high. : MAUNALOA
15
Joyous songs. : CAROLS
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Surf bather's hazard. : UNDERTOW
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Biblical mount. : ARARAT
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Pitcher Maglie. : SAL
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Hold up. : DETAIN
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One of Belgrade's rivers. : SAVA
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Rival of Harrow. : ETON
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Check. : REIN
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Miss Keller. : HELEN
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Made secure (with "up"). : SEWED
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Pepys' claim to fame. : DIARY
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Downcast. : SAD
32
Existed. : WAS
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Constellation, the Bird of Paradise. : APUS
35
Compass reading. : ENE
36
Subject of pending legislation. : FORTYNINTHSTATE
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Cockney's desire. : OPE
42
Sea: Comb. form. : MARI
43
Catcher Campanella. : ROY
44
Macerate. : RET
45
Practice of a copycat. : APISM
47
Gocarts in London. : PRAMS
51
Of Buffalo's lake. : ERIAN
53
Throw haymakers. : SLUG
55
Base in Greenland. : ETAH
56
Black Hawk's tribe. : SACS
57
Grand finales in many suspense stories. : CHASES
59
Color. : HUE
60
So. : THUSLY
62
Descriptive of a golf course. : NINEHOLE
64
Pay homage. : SALAAM
65
Important food dealers. : DAIRYMEN
66
Beautiful valley in Thessaly. : TEMPE
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Dark horses. : SLEEPERS
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Diverts. : AMUSES
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Woolly. : LANATE
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Town near Springfield, Mass. : LUDLOW
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Time for a lunch date. : ONE
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Cowboy's side-kick. : PARD
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___ ego. : ALTER
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Sounded a horn. : TOOTED
8
A star on the flag? : HAWAIIANISLANDS
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Look over. : SCAN
10
Face value. : PAR
11
Wipe off. : ERASE
12
One of the flattop fleet. : CORALSEA
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Phenomenon of the insect world. : SLAVEANT
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Part of the audience. : STANDEE
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Lacking fitness. : INAPT
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Salamander. : NEWT
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Fragrant blue-flowered plant. : HYSSOP
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Worker on an evening paper. : DAYMAN
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River in Prussia. : RUHR
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Sinecure. : SNAP
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Arden and Sherwood. : FORESTS
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It's collapsible. : OPERAHAT
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Grandmother's handbag. : RETICULE
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Temper: Colloq. : IRISH
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Pneumatic for a British car. : TYRE
46
Stan the Man. : MUSIAL
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In. : ATHOME
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Epithet for Dempsey. : MAULER
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Lusters. : SHEENS
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Neighbor of Burma and Tibet. : ASSAM
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Aladdin's friend. : GENIE
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Flower cluster. : CYME
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Withered. : SERE
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Kind of dog. : LAP
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Under: Prefix. : HYP

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 11 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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