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A. H. Drummond Jr.
A. H. Drummond Jr.

New York Times, Saturday, August 8, 1959

12-Down : Presidential prerogative.

Author:
A. H. Drummond
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
A. H. Drummond Jr. has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
A. H. Drummond is an alias for A. H. Drummond Jr..
David Steinberg notes:

The original 39-Down clue was ["When you ___ a tulip ... "]. Removed the "a" for consistency with the answer, WORE A.

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© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,676
Across
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Official document. : PAPER
6
Leap. : SKIP
10
Useful French abbreviation. : RSVP
14
European country: Comb. form. : ITALO
15
"And away ___!" : WEGO
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Fencing master's implement. : EPEE
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Mrs. ___, Gallico character. : ARRIS
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Beneath: Naut. : ALOW
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Singer. : ALTO
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Basis for preliminary judgment. : FIRSTIMPRESSION
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Door fastening. : HASP
24
Lean lopsidedly. : LIST
25
New Testament epistle. : ROMANS
28
College math subject. : CALCULUS
32
Cuckoo's relative. : ANI
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Coin valued by Shylock. : DUCAT
35
Nevada city, pop. 32,497. : RENO
36
Haunts of thieves. : DENS
38
Kind of macaroni. : ELBOW
40
Sin. : EVIL
41
Go ___ hammer and tongs (work vigorously). : ATIT
42
First name in Ireland. : EAMON
44
Greek letter. : ETA
45
Site of a football classic. : ROSEBOWL
48
Designating a skating derby. : ROLLER
50
Weight system. : TROY
51
Evening, in Rome. : SERA
52
Basis for final judgment. : THELASTANALYSIS
59
Of ___ (formerly). : YORE
60
Site of Irish coronation stone. : TARA
61
Corundum. : EMERY
62
"A Touch of the ___." : POET
63
At all times. : EVER
64
Old Nick. : SATAN
65
Inequalities. : ODDS
66
Insurance company's concern. : RISK
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Eden dweller. : SNAKE
Down
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Chanteuse Edith. : PIAF
2
Town in Longfellow poem. : ATRI
3
Young salmon. : PARR
4
Prophet of Israel. : ELISHA
5
Immortalizer of "Cyrano." : ROSTAND
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Okefenokee, for one. : SWAMP
7
Coarse seaweed. : KELP
8
Borodin hero. : IGOR
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Nobel Prize physicist, 1950. : POWELL
10
Remove apprehensions. : REASSURE
11
Style of home architecture. : SPLITLEVEL
12
Presidential prerogative. : VETO
13
Humble laborer. : PEON
21
Offspring. : ISSUE
22
Thus: Lat. : SIC
25
Type 984, new British air defense. : RADAR
26
" ... and ___ grow on." : ONETO
27
Gave service. : MINISTERED
28
Conspiratorial group. : CABAL
29
Potent particle. : ATOM
30
Join forces. : UNITE
31
Of the nearest star. : SOLAR
34
Ball of thread. : CLEW
37
Small sturgeons. : STERLETS
39
"When you ___ tulip ... " : WOREA
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"Neither more ___ than ... " : NORLESS
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Python. : BOA
47
Kind of stew. : OYSTER
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One not of the cloth. : LAYMAN
51
Air Force missile. : SNARK
52
Printer's abbreviation. : TYPO
53
Peak of the Cascade Range. : HOOD
54
Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-___." : TAVI
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Mythological warmonger. : ARES
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Silk, in Italy. : SETA
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Modern Mesopotamia: Var. : IRAK
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Since: Scot. : SYNE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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