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Marcia Gladstone
Marcia Gladstone

New York Times, Monday, September 15, 1958

3-Down : Elfin being.

Author:
Marcia Gladstone
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.14, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Marcia Gladstone has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,366
Across
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Roundup hands. : ROPERS
7
Headdress popular in 18th century. : BAGWIG
13
Namesakes of a Fielding heroine. : AMELIAS
15
Means of transportation. : CARLINE
16
Sunshade. : PARASOL
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Cellular interaction. : OSMOSIS
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Hackneyed. : TRITE
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Noble. : EARL
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Stone paving block. : SETT
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Missilemen. : ENGINEERS
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Touches gently. : PATS
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Operatic prince. : IGOR
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Was sickly. : AILED
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Norse goddess of healing. : EIR
34
Road, in Germany. : BAHN
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Hard. : STEELY
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Seminarian. : STUDENT
38
Get off, as at a station. : DETRAIN
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Hidden. : OCCULT
40
Roman historian. : LIVY
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The Confederacy: Abbr. : CSA
42
Racing boat. : SHELL
43
Punt's propeller. : POLE
44
Son of Noah. : SHEM
45
Florida cape. : CANAVERAL
48
Persian mystic. : SUFI
51
Sen. Watkins' home town. : OREM
52
Very poor. : NEEDY
56
Kettle. : UTENSIL
58
Animal traditionally mistaken for a mermaid. : MANATEE
60
Let go. : RELEASE
61
Where the Painted Desert is. : ARIZONA
62
Subject of a will. : ESTATE
63
Famed economist. : KEYNES
Down
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Completely absorbed. : RAPT
2
Gen. Bradley. : OMAR
3
Elfin being. : PERI
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Makes joyful. : ELATES
5
Up. : RISEN
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___ Paulo. : SAO
7
Swiss city on the Rhine. : BASLE
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Branch. : ARM
9
Having more sheen. : GLOSSIER
10
Knowing. : WISE
11
First letter: Abbr. : INIT
12
Adventure. : GEST
14
___-of-hand. : SLEIGHT
15
Kitchen gadget. : CORER
20
Shortly. : ANON
23
Novel by Edna Ferber. : GIANT
24
Shabby: Slang. : RATTY
25
Money in the Philippines. : PESOS
26
Letter of the alphabet. : AITCH
27
Armistice. : TRUCE
30
Extract by filtering. : LEACH
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Girl's name. : ELISE
32
Power: Comb. form. : DYNAM
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Beautiful: Ital. : BELLA
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Cut. : SEVER
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Don Quixote's lady love. : DULCINEA
38
Problem. : DILEMMA
40
Term of endearment. : LOVE
43
Speak: Fr. : PARLE
44
Of flimsy texture. : SLEAZY
46
Sound. : NOISE
47
Ethel Merman role. : ANNIE
48
___ enough (certainly). : SURE
49
Indians. : UTES
50
Sensed. : FELT
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Kind of jacket. : ETON
54
English sand hill. : DENE
55
Assents. : YEAS
57
Calendar abbreviation. : SAT
59
Chest of Biblical days. : ARK

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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