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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

New York Times, Wednesday, July 9, 1958

12-Down : Popular synthetic fabric.

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 86, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, 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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© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,298
Across
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Heavy swells or waves. : SEAS
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The girl for Daphnis. : CHLOE
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Health resorts. : SPAS
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Female relative. : AUNT
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Truancy game. : HOOKY
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Every. : EACH
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Musical group. : TRIO
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Boring tool. : AUGER
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Out of the wind. : ALEE
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Tasting. : SAMPLING
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Condition of being. : ESTATE
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Actress Hagen. : UTA
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Land of Brahmans. : INDIA
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Cornhusker. : IOWAN
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Sampler sayings. : MOTTOS
30
Among. : AMID
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Devoured. : ATE
33
Quantities. : AMOUNTS
35
Plumed. : PREENED
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Greek porch. : STOA
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Movie studios and adjoining areas. : LOTS
39
Pioneer in aviation. : EARHART
42
Fences in: Obs. : ENRAILS
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Constellation. : ARA
47
Hoover Dam lake. : MEAD
49
Tap. : FAUCET
50
Sooty dirt. : GRIME
52
Customary or conventional. : NOMIC
54
Babylonian deity: Var. : HEA
55
Bird snarers. : LIMERS
57
Fur animals. : MUSKRATS
59
Smooth. : EVEN
60
Heeling over. : ALIST
62
Nile bird. : IBIS
63
Move toward. : TEND
64
Indian lady of high degree. : RANEE
65
Cryptographic writing. : CODE
66
Groups of persons. : SETS
67
"___ to the wise ... " : AWORD
68
Strategic Eastern port. : ADEN
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Exquisite Japanese porcelain. : SATSUMA
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European Atomic Energy Community. : EURATOM
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Lively, in music. : ANIMATO
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Traffic sign. : STOP
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Affiliated shop. : CHAINSTORE
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Beagle or borzoi. : HOUND
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Colonnaded Italian gallery. : LOGGIA
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Slangy okay. : OKE
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Fictional Jane. : EYRE
10
Eastern treaty group. : SEATO
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Philippine island. : PALAWAN
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Popular synthetic fabric. : ACETATE
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Having luster. : SHEENED
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Circus star. : LIONTAMER
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Divert. : SIDETRACK
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More than adequate. : AMPLE
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Impatient exclamation. : TUSH
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Hard of hand. : IRONFISTED
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Chief of devils. : SATAN
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Biblical hunter. : ESAU
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Eyrie fledglings. : EAGLETS
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Parvenue. : ARRIVEE
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Attire. : RAIMENT
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Irving's Crane. : ICHABOD
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Sea flow running with the wind. : LEETIDE
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U. S. statesman. : STASSEN
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Half mask. : DOMINO
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Betters. : MENDS
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Thinker. : MUSER
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First name in "Campobello" cast. : SARA
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Costa ___. : RICA
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Order's companion. : LAW

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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