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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

New York Times, Wednesday, July 28, 1954

1-Down : A change of horses.

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 30, Avg Word Len: 5.57, Missing: { K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 288 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 88, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,856
Across
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A prince of India. : RAJAH
6
Fused with color. : STAINED
13
Moon's nearest orbital point. : PERIGEE
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Permeate. : PERVADE
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Flying colors. : EMBLEMS
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Devotee of austerity. : ASCETIC
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Waste fibers of wool. : NOILS
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Shopping carriers. : CARTS
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City in the Urals. : UFA
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Part of Patton's sobriquet. : GUTS
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Girls in Navy blue. : WAVES
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Needing irrigation. : ARID
25
Impersonal pronoun. : ONE
26
Savory. : SAPID
27
Two dead ducks. : BRACE
28
High and dry. : STRANDED
30
Spanish dance affairs. : BAILES
31
Tavern sentimentality. : BEERINESS
33
Gardening tool for planting. : DIBBER
36
Raised a nap by brushing. : TEASELED
40
Danube tributary in Bavaria. : ILLER
41
Winter resort. : MIAMI
42
Man in a shell. : OAR
43
"The Teahouse," for instance. : PLAY
44
Certain South Africans. : BOERS
45
Urania or Clio. : MUSE
46
Fired. : LIT
47
By itself: Lat. : PERSE
48
Devilfish. : MANTA
49
Musical sweet potato. : OCARINA
51
The man at bat. : SWINGER
53
Record of the session. : MINUTES
54
Leather factory. : TANNERY
55
Speaks as a witness. : ATTESTS
56
Long. : YEARN
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A change of horses. : REMOUNT
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Umpire. : ARBITER
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Nursery rhyme girls. : JILLS
4
Centuries. : AGES
5
Pause in speaking. : HEM
6
Showed mercy to. : SPARED
7
Civil Service tryouts. : TESTS
8
Bows. : ARCS
9
Verbal contraction. : IVE
10
Without mannerisms. : NATURAL
11
Structure. : EDIFICE
12
Century units. : DECADES
13
Coins of Hungary, replaced by forints, 1946. : PENGOS
14
Refugee. : ESCAPER
20
Greeds. : AVIDITIES
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Child at the shore. : WADER
24
Start from. : ARISE
26
Facial scorn. : SNEER
27
Opera heavies. : BASSI
29
Church connected with a monastery. : ABBEY
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Radio-signal directions. : BEAMS
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Most intimate. : NEAREST
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Sheepskin. : DIPLOMA
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Unauthorized. : ILLICIT
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Too loud for elegance. : BLATANT
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Loafer. : LOUNGER
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Denoting an important seaboard. : EASTERN
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Dismal. : DREARY
41
Swamp. : MORASS
44
Poet of "John Brown's Body." : BENET
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Provisions of the Lord. : MANNA
47
Where orchestras sit, in theatres. : PITS
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Any great source of supply. : MINE
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Symbol of regret. : RUE
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Method. : WAY

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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