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Thomas Meekin
Thomas Meekin

FROM THE BOOK SHELF

New York Times, Sunday, July 3, 1949

3-Down : Make melodious.

Author:
Thomas Meekin
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 162, Blocks: 82, Avg Word Len: 5.52, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 617 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 170, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 24, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 49
Thomas Meekin has 202 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1949, The New York TimesNo. 386
Across
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None do this from Dotheboys Hall. : GRADUATE
9
Pepper sauce. : TABASCO
16
Jason's uncle. : PELIAS
22
What Enoch Arden did. : RETURNED
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Balloter. : ELECTOR
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Woman in Wells' "The Research Magnificent." : AMANDA
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Alienate. : ESTRANGE
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Hurry Harry's nature in "The Deerslayer." : RESTIVE
27
Catalogued. : LISTED
28
Small shield. : ECU
29
Besides modeling, Trilby does this. : LAUNDERS
31
Status of Du Bose Heyward's Porgy. : BEGGAR
33
A fairy. : ELF
34
Chinese statesman (1833-98). : KUNG
36
Craftiest. : SLIEST
37
Lover's O'More. : RORY
38
Tripolitan pik, 26.77 in. : DRAA
39
Crystal gazers. : SEERS
41
Soul: Hinduism. : ATMA
42
Bertram's bride in "All's Well." : HELENA
45
The language of Homer. : IONIC
46
In love with Touchstone. : AUDREY
48
Journeyed. : FARED
49
Turn of a horse. : PASSADE
51
Tinker to Evers to ___. : CHANCE
54
Flaxen fabric. : LINEN
55
Isolated : ENISLED
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Jiggs' Maggie's demeanor. : HAUGHTY
58
The sailor. : SINDBAD
60
"This ___ of Paradise."—Fitzgerald. : SIDE
61
"Fraulein ___."—Schnitzler. : ELSE
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What Bunyan's Pilgrim did in the Chamber of Peace. : RESTED
64
Philippine tree. : IPIL
66
Designating the cutting edge of a tooth. : MORSAL
70
Ahab's place on the Pequod. : AFT
71
Contriver of the sham "Popish Plot." : OATES
72
Bacchante. : MAENAD
74
Author of "Peg Woffington." : READE
75
Bird note. : TWEE
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Girl's nickname. : PRUE
78
Barrie's Peter. : PAN
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Charlotte Brontë's Jane. : EYRE
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Neat. : TRIG
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There are three in Shakespeare's "King John." : EARLS
84
Austrian battleground, 1809. : ASPARN
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"___ Mansions."—Hudson. : GREEN
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The wallaba. : APA
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Coloring. : DYEING
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Turn about. : SLUE
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Punjab caste. : ARORAS
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Rob Roy is one. : SCOT
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Raiment. : GARB
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Chariots. : ESSEDES
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Form of the Victoria Cross. : MALTESE
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Last home of Natty Bumppo. : PRAIRIE
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U. S. Chief Justice, 1836-64. : TANEY
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Coats with an alloy. : TERNES
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A London bridge. : LAMBETH
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Dwarf in the Volsunga Saga. : REGIN
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A white: Maori. : PAKEHA
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Greek coins. : OBOLS
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Leveled. : EVENED
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Pit. : MINE
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Part of stair. : RISER
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"When We ___ Very Young."—Milne. : WERE
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Cast by Izaak Walton. : BAIT
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The Mad ___. : HATTER
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Dean Swift's "___ of a Tub." : TALE
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___ Baba. : ALI
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Trees. : ALDERS
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Heard in "Carmen." : CASTANET
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Kind of resin. : LAC
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Sweet potato. : BATATA
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Closest. : NEAREST
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Make over. : RENOVATE
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Vassals. : LIEGES
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"No, no, ___." : NANETTE
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Platforms. : ESTRADES
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John the Baptist probably was one. : ESSENE
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Studio. : ATELIER
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Loud-voiced ones. : STENTORS
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Devisers of the Trojan Horse. : GREEKS
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"The ___."—Conrad. : RESCUE
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Make melodious. : ATTUNE
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Major: Music. : DUR
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Mountain range. : URAL
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Coins of India. : ANNAS
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Tile-like. : TEGULAR
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Adam was one. : EDENITE
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"Sister ___."—George Moore. : TERESA
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On the qui vive. : ALERT
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Porgy's girl. : BESS
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What Magnolia learned to do in "Show Boat." : ACT
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Sandpiper. : STIB
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"The ___ Wagon."—Hough. : COVERED
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"The ___ Trail."—Parkman. : OREGON
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Ivory tree. : PALAY
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Turkish title. : EMIR
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___ Vegas. : LAS
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Enclosed. : INTERNAL
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Mother of Zola's "Rougon Family." : ADELAIDE
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Dismal-looking. : SADFACED
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Size of paper. : DEMY
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"___ of Wrath." : GRAPES
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"Rudder ___."—F. R. Stockton. : GRANGE
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Capital in Byzantine architecture. : DOSSERET
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George Eliot's Theophrastus ___. : SUCH
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What Captain Hook lacks. : HAND
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Of a Hadean way. : EREBIAN
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Delaware Indian. : LENAPE
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Man's name. : ISIDOR
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Not wanted: Fr. : DETROP
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Discovery. : FIND
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Biblical name. : ANIM
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Bamboozled. : CHEATED
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"___ House."—Maurice Hewlett. : HALFWAY
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Describes England's program. : AUSTERE
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Told by Iago. : LIES
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Poison oak. : YEARA
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A place in Dickens' "The Chimes." : STEEPLE
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Peruvian coins. : DINEROS
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Game like faro. : STUSS
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___ cake. : LAYER
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Saladin's race. : SARACEN
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Fatty. : ADIPOSE
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Papal envoys. : LEGATES
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Isle of ___. : MAN
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Alice's Wonderland. : DREAM
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Suitable. : ELIGIBLE
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What witches do in "Macbeth." : PRESAGE
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Ensiform. : ENSATE
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Entanglements. : SNARES
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She wrote "Pride and Prejudice." : AUSTEN
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Anne Brontë's "Agnes ___." : GREY
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Quality of Alger heroes. : GRIT
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Port visited by Marco Polo. : ADEN
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"___ Is the Gate."—André Gide. : STRAIT
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Guillotine. : BEHEAD
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Geraint's wife. : ENID
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Annealing oven. : LEHR
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Tillable. : PLOWABLE
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Creator of Pantagruel. : RABELAIS
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Early dwellers in Palestine. : AMORITES
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Closing theme of "Anabasis." : RETREAT
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The Great Commoner. : PITT
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Scorpion's Heart. : ANTARES
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Sharpest. : KEENEST
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Scene of "Measure for Measure." : VIENNA
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"The ___ of Ballantrae." : MASTER
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Bay in Chile. : SALADO
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Click beetle. : ELATER
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Alcove. : RECESS
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Describes Dortal in Huysman's "En Route." : BLASE
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In which Miss Lulu Bett married. : HASTE
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Annuity: Fr. : RENTE
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Solar disk. : ATEN
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Is Hamlet? : SANE
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Of the whale. : CETI
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So died Orpheus. : TORN
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"The ___ of Innocence."—Wharton. : AGE
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Electric unit. : REL
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Tank. : VAT

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7 unique to this puzzle, 42 debuted here and reused later, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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