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Fletcher Ingalls
Fletcher Ingalls

BITS AND TRACES

New York Times, Sunday, July 27, 1975

48-Down : Informed

Author:
Fletcher Ingalls
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 170, Blocks: 94, Avg Word Len: 5.12, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 653 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 137, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 14, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 19
Fletcher Ingalls has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,479
Across
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French marshal : FOCH
5
Blood fluids : SERA
9
Detent : PAWL
13
Faucet piece : WASHER
19
Hebrew measure : EPHA
20
Morris or high : CHAIR
21
Agent or jumper : CLAIM
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On land : ASHORE
24
What you can do to water : LEADAHORSE
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Arion, for one : TALKINGHORSE
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Kind of verb: Abbr. : IRR
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Brass alloys : LATTENS
31
Stone markers : STELES
32
French wit : SEL
33
Judge Sewall's city : SALEM
35
Prepare leftovers : HEAT
36
Lick or mines : SALT
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Poetic work : ODE
39
Early ascetic : ESSENE
42
Palm starch : SAGO
45
Egyptian deity : BES
46
Moistures : DEWS
48
Settles : PAYS
50
Russian river : LENA
52
Protective helmet : TINHAT
54
Time period : EPOCH
56
Irish cry : OCH
57
___ d'Oléron : ILE
58
Biped's claim to fame : TWOFEET
60
Glanced off : CAROMED
62
Reconnoitered : SCOUTED
64
Graham or Raye : MARTHA
65
Tennessee player : VOL
66
Without : SANS
67
Pirouettes : TURNS
68
Up-to-date : MOD
69
One out of his element : HORSEMARINE
72
Word in N. C. motto : ESSE
73
Tallahassee campus : FSU
75
European ant : HORSEEMMET
76
Scottish river : DEE
77
Inaugural parade unit : BLACKHORSETROOP
80
Audit entries: Abbr. : CRS
83
Motive power of yore : COACHHORSE
84
Abstract being : ENS
85
Watery sound : PLOP
86
Special period of extra study : SHORTCOURSE
88
Fort in Calif. : ORD
90
N. Y. county : TIOGA
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Swan genus : OLOR
92
Full of: Suffix : OUS
93
Decrepit : SENILE
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Hymn : SANCTUS
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Forgives : PARDONS
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Slightly inferior wares : SECONDS
100
Aardvark food : ANT
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Hesitant sound : HEM
102
Goose genus : ANSER
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Fieldworks : REDANS
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Elephant's ear : TARO
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Dame Myra : HESS
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City near Leipzig : GERA
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Benedictine title : DOM
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Drive out : ROUT
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Hair tints : RINSES
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___ carrier : HOD
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French eight : HUIT
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Bert or John : LAHR
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Assyrian god : ASHUR
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Kind of old : AGE
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Bar or horseshoe : MAGNET
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Got into condition : TRAINED
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"___ to a customer" : ONE
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U. S. sprinter : QUARTERHORSE
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Hippo : RIVERHORSE
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Opens : UNDOES
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Dispatched : SLAIN
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French pewter : ETAIN
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___ up (finished) : USED
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Size up : ASSESS
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Serf of old : ESNE
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Pickle : DILL
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Soaks : RETS
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Cat family : FELIS
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Glasses or hat : OPERA
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Athletic woe : CHARLEYHORSE
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Experienced : HAD
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Kaput : SHOT
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Kind of pot : EARTHEN
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Laughter, in Arras : RISEE
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Sports places : ARENAS
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Banking abbr. : PCT
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Dear me! : ALAS
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Whitman and Disney : WALTS
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"___ out of hell" : LIKEABAT
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Comic ones : WAGS
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Mountain or prickly : ASH
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Japanese measure : SHO
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Dale Evans, e.g. : HORSEWOMAN
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Gaelic : ERSE
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Virginia ___ : REEL
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Chinese tea : CHA
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Barbizon artist : MILLET
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Charity : ALMS
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Tennis and hair : NETS
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Rotor pivot : STATOR
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Curve : ESS
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Baltic feeder : ODER
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Down payment : DEPOSIT
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She: Fr. : ELLE
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Exigency : NEED
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Mouth study, e.g. : GIFTHORSENONO
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Minor : ONEHORSE
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Cordwood measure : SCENE
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Informed : POSTED
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Zola's verb : ACCUSE
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Air: Prefix : ATMO
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Tenebrae frame : HEARSE
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Body parts: Abbr. : HDS
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"___ a long way ... " : ITS
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Bankroll : WAD
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Paine's sense : COMMON
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Cottonwoods : ALAMOS
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French article : UNE
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Swerved : VEERED
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Many, in Jalapa : MUCHOS
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Radio or matched : SET
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Ribbed fabric : REP
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___ one's back (supine) : FLATON
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Purse, to Caesar : SACCUS
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Disneyland ride : HORSECAR
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N.Y.C. unit: Abbr. : BOR
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Egyptian soul : KHU
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___ around (cavorted) : HORSED
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Fanatic dresser : CLOTHESHORSE
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Kind of gallery : ROGUES
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Sudden efforts : SPASMS
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Lamb, in Vigo : CORDERO
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Photo, for short : PIC
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"Fall guy" or "gent," e.g. : SLANG
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N. Y. town : HORSEHEADS
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___ hat : OLD
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Kind of cure : REST
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Shell filling : TNT
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Ration-book agency : OPA
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Rude action : INSULT
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Eastern garment : SARI
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In a while : ANON
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Toward the mouth : ORAD
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Florida settler : SEMINOLE
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___ it (camps out) : ROUGHS
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Air-board listing : ARRIVAL
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"For ___ a jolly good ... " : HES
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Town in India : DHAR
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Defiled : TARRED
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Hindu holy man : SADH
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Buddhist churches : TERAS
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Neighbor of Cuba : HAITI
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Like some gems : UNSET
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Willis and Walter : REEDS
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Pale color : AQUA
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Weapons : GUNS
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___ of pottage : MESS
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Chinese river : TSIN
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Simon : NEIL
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Water bird : ERN
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Streaks in wood : ROE
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Thy: Fr. : TES
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Chemical ending : ENE
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"___ Town" : OUR

Answer summary:
12 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 12 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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