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Geraldine W. King
Geraldine W. King

New York Times, Tuesday, July 2, 1957

15-Down : Jerauld Wright's concern.

Author:
Geraldine King
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13
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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© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 2,926
Across
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Noisy impact. : SLAM
5
Teases: Colloq. : RIDES
10
Unit of heat: Abbr. : BTU
13
Marsh plant. : TULE
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Behave theatrically. : EMOTE
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Decree. : FIAT
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Church image. : ICON
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Opera by Massenet. : MANON
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Recent. : LATE
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"No person shall be held to answer ... " : FIFTHAMENDMENT
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Leaders, as of the Pilgrims. : FATHERS
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Long distressing periods. : SIEGES
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Suffix forming diminutives. : OCK
26
Driving signal. : LEFTTURN
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Move with stealth. : SKULK
31
Dance. : GAVOT
32
Fifty-two. : LII
33
Studies. : CONS
34
Life-___. : SAVER
35
Hourglass filling. : SAND
36
Cockney's dwelling. : OME
37
Narrow groove. : STRIA
38
Brink. : VERGE
39
Symbol of a coastal state. : PINETREE
41
German article. : DER
42
Dinner course. : ENTREE
43
Section of many modern houses. : DINETTE
47
Part of AFL-CIO. : TEAMSTERSUNION
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Type of newspaper ad: Abbr. : PERS
51
The red cedar. : SAVIN
52
Site of Taj Mahal. : AGRA
53
Magnolia. : TREE
54
Banish. : EXILE
55
Old Testament book: Abbr. : DEUT
56
Moreover. : AND
57
Absurd. : SILLY
58
Gaelic. : ERSE
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Lacking grace. : STIFF
2
Role in Donizetti opera. : LUCIA
3
In the rigging. : ALOFT
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Cooling substances. : MENTHOLS
5
Something said briefly. : REMARK
6
Priests of a mosque. : IMAMS
7
Sufficiently cooked. : DONE
8
Kind of jacket. : ETON
9
Summons. : SENDSFOR
10
Having two angles. : BIANGULAR
11
Becoming ragged. : TATTERING
12
Indian. : UTE
15
Jerauld Wright's concern. : FLEET
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Slangy exclamation. : HECK
21
Glove. : MITT
24
Mean: Slang. : SNIDE
26
C'est ___! : LAVIE
27
Genus of shrubs of madder family. : EVEA
28
Range of view. : SCOPE
29
Third International, dissolved in 1943: Ger. sp. : KOMINTERN
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Not recorded. : UNENTERED
31
French depot. : GARE
34
Strains. : STRESSES
35
Piece of music. : SERENADE
37
Forward part of a ship. : STEM
38
Come: Fr. : VENU
40
Rub out. : ERASE
41
Many-times Oscar winner. : DISNEY
43
Cotton cloth. : DRILL
44
Animal. : TIGER
45
Molding just above the plinth. : TORUS
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Growing out. : ENATE
48
Cab. : TAXI
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Sin. : EVIL
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School group. : PTA

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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