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Jack Luzzatto
WITH CLUES FROM THE NEWS
New York Times, Sunday, August 22, 1943
67-Down : Lugs.
Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 170 , Blocks: 76 , Avg Word Len: 5.33 , Missing: { Q } , Scrabble score: 684 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 162 , Cheaters: 2 , FITB: 4 , XRef: 0 , Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 98
David Steinberg notes:
92-Down question mark in parentheses appears in the original.
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© 1943, The New York Times No. 80
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Navy and Marine fighter plane, F4U. :
CORSAIR 26
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Soldier's equipment. :
KIT 29
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Went down the ways. :
SLID 41
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"The glass of fashion and the ___ of form."—Hamlet. :
MOLD 44
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Without interest. :
DRYLY 47
Not to be profaned. :
HOLY 48
Walnut or hickory nut: Bot. :
TRYMA 49
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German pocket battleship scuttled at Montevideo, Dec. 17, 1939. :
SPEE 62
Mountain on Baranof Island. :
ADA 65
Strategic city between Orel and Smolensk. :
BRYANSK 67
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Suits named after Indian word for wolf. :
TUXEDOS 71
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Whispered sweet nothings. :
COOED 73
One appointed by law to try challenges of jurors. :
TRIOR 75
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Mountains in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. :
OZARK 77
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Give new courage. :
REMAN 83
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Native of Estonia. :
ESTH 93
Commune in Utrecht, the Kaiser's St. Helena. :
DOORN 94
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Stuff pitched overboard. :
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"The first break" in Festung Europa. :
SICILY 104
Gunner's post in midplane. :
WAIST 106
Minnesota river, 120 miles to Mississippi. :
SAUK 107
Grueling tryouts. :
TESTS 111
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Blacken with fire. :
CHAR 114
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Pertaining to the shoreline. :
COASTAL 119
This costs red points. :
SUET 120
Lands ___ Cornwall. :
END 121
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___ 304, near Verdun. :
HILL 126
133 1/3 lbs., in China. :
TAN 127
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Judicial procedure obsolete in most civilized countries. :
TORTURE 134
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East Indian herbs yielding oil. :
SESAMES 137
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Political incumbents. :
INS 5
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Austrian river, flowing into Danube. :
TRAUN 12
Pertaining to the ear. :
OTIC 13
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Sault Ste. Marie canal. :
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Traffic in sacred things. :
SIMONY 32
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Pall over Pittsburgh. :
SMOG 42
Volga city, north of Moscow. :
RYBINSK 44
Norwegian composer (1843-1907). :
GRIEG 45
Attach a territory. :
ANNEX 47
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Hypothetical forces. :
ODS 52
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New York Army camp. :
UPTON 55
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Subtle emanations. :
AURAE 67
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Majestic instrument. :
ORGAN 70
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Extremely unpleasant. :
NASTY 85
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Key Jap base in Pacific. :
TRUK 89
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British (?) renegade broadcaster. :
HAWHAW 94
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Leave in the lurch. :
JILT 97
Hawaiian island, site of Haleakala, largest extinct crater in world. :
MAUI 99
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Desert alkalis: Geol. :
REHS 101
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Unfermented grape juice. :
STUM 123
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President Prado's capital. :
LIMA 128
Wheat flour: India. :
ATA 129
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Col. Donovan's office. :
OSS 132
Answer summary:6 unique to this puzzle , 92 debuted here and reused later , 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles .
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Grid has an unusual size: 23 rows x 23 columns.
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