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Alice H. Cook
Alice H. Cook

BOOKMAN'S PLEASURE

New York Times, Sunday, September 5, 1948

7-Down : Loser at Actium.

Author:
Alice Cook
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 63, Avg Word Len: 5.48, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 526 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 144, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 14, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 34
Alice H. Cook has 25 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Alice Cook is an alias for Alice H. Cook.
David Steinberg notes:

Original grid at 90-Across had WEIN; corrected to WIEN.

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© 1948, The New York TimesNo. 343
Across
1
Subject of a Thornton Wilder novel. : CAESAR
7
A nonfiction best seller. : ALMANAC
14
Leaves of grass. : BLADES
20
Heroine of "All's Well That Ends Well." : HELENA
21
Stone age implement. : NEOLITH
22
Bestow without stint. : LAVISH
23
A variety of fungus. : AGARIC
24
Girl's name, meaning gazelle. : TABITHA
25
A salt of a fatty acid. : OLEATE
26
Storage place. : REPOSITORY
28
Best seller of 1855. : WESTWARDHO
30
Feast day: Comb. form. : MAS
31
Deserve. : EARN
32
He wrote "The Gay Lord Quex." : PINERO
33
Close the eyes. : SEEL
34
Knife. : SNEE
36
"___ of Ancient Rome."—Macaulay. : LAYS
38
The Harvard ___. : STADIUM
40
"___ Miniver." : MRS
41
Sharp bark. : YELP
43
Honors. : ACES
45
Governor Maw's state. : UTAH
47
Two points in football. : SAFETY
50
Color: French. : BLEU
51
Dependent. : PENSIONER
56
Lower. : ABASE
57
Approve again. : REENDORSE
59
Clamor. : NOISE
60
Robert Todd Lincoln. : TAD
61
___ dust. : STAR
63
Seats. : SOFAS
64
Resources. : ASSETS
65
By another way: Latin. : ALIA
67
___-Saxon. : ANGLO
69
Examines by touch. : FEELS
71
Dark. : EBON
72
Kichisaburo ___, Ambassador from Japan, 1941. : NOMURA
74
Tuesday: French. : MARDI
76
Author of "The Bad Parent's Garden of Verse." : NASH
78
Spenser's Truth. : UNA
79
Empty. : INANE
80
Pillaged. : RANSACKED
82
Source of gold, in Old Testament. : OPHIR
84
Adjusting an axis to normal position. : CENTERING
86
Dutch island west of Sumatra. : NIAS
87
Helix. : SPIRAL
88
Offscourings. : SCUM
89
Jerusalem hill, site of the Temple. : SION
90
Where Schubert lived and died. : WIEN
91
Prince Edward's double in "The Prince and the Pauper." : TOM
94
Refugees. : EMIGRES
97
Mine truck. : TRAM
99
Head. : TETE
103
Sacred bull of ancient Egypt. : APIS
105
Strong forward dash. : ONRUSH
106
Son of Tros, and founder of Troy. : ILUS
108
Nothing. : NIL
109
Toynbee, Beard, Motley, et al. : HISTORIANS
111
___ agreement. : GENTLEMANS
114
Utterly senseless. : INSANE
115
Hypocritically weeps. : SNIVELS
117
Land of the Thousand and One Nights. : ARABIA
118
Render. : TEARER
119
Woman's long cloak. : PELISSE
120
Names of books. : TITLES
121
The unemployed. : IDLERS
122
Rained at freezing temperature. : SLEETED
123
Appears on stage. : ENTERS
Down
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"Freedom has a thousand ___."—Cowper. : CHARMS
2
Where Sappho drowned. : AEGEAN
3
Slip by. : ELAPSE
4
Relating to serum: Comb. form. : SERO
5
___ seed. : ANISE
6
In a manner pertaining to an ethnic group. : RACIALLY
7
Loser at Actium. : ANTONY
8
Cordelia's father. : LEAR
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___ Dick. : MOBY
10
Arabian Nights character. : ALI
11
Morons. : NITWITS
12
Friend of Ulysses. : ATHENA
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Pursued. : CHASED
14
Highway accidents. : BLOWOUTS
15
French exclamation. : LALA
16
Declares. : AVERS
17
Jeweled headband. : DIADEM
18
Lady Dedlock's daughter in "Bleak House." : ESTHER
19
Abodes of the dead: Hebrew. : SHEOLS
27
Light carriage. : TRAP
29
Three in one. : TRIUNE
32
False. : PSEUDO
35
Holes in cheese. : EYES
37
Transfer of property. : SALE
39
Large pipes. : MAINS
42
Summers: French. : ETES
44
Busy people in Boston. : CENSORS
46
___gow. : HOOSE
47
Diabolical. : SATANIC
48
Ear shell. : ABALONE
49
He knows all the answers on "Information Please." : FADIMAN
50
Joan of Lorraine on the stage. : BERGMAN
51
Before: Prefix. : PRAE
52
Ascetics of ancient Palestine. : ESSENES
53
German historian, "History of Rome." : NIEBUHR
54
Russian satellite. : ESTONIA
55
Tangle again. : RESNARL
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Played continuously. : RAN
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Ex ___. : OFFICIO
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Chinese pagoda. : TAA
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"The Golden ___." : ASS
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Part of a chorus in "Pinafore." : AUNTS
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Writer of many fairy tales. : LANG
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"A Shropshire ___."—A. E. Housman. : LAD
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Chairman of GOP committee. : REECE
75
The language of Andersen's Fairy Tales. : DANISH
77
He says he "Never Left Home." : HOPE
80
Seaport of N. E. Italy. : RIMINI
81
He wrote "Critique of Pure Reason." : KANT
83
Two cups. : PINT
85
Gossips. : RUMORERS
87
Assume the appearance of. : SIMULATE
89
Attached by the base. : SESSILE
90
Whitman. : WALT
91
Grass skirt land. : TAHITI
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Supposed. : OPINED
93
Prayer book. : MISSAL
95
Seizes. : GRASPS
96
Rivulet. : RUNNEL
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Dipped in water. : RINSED
100
Authorize. : ENABLE
101
More minute. : TINIER
102
German name for Alsace. : ELSASS
104
Gaze. : STARE
107
Small finch. : SERIN
110
Singleton. : ONER
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Metrical romance. : GEST
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In addition. : ELSE
113
Book of New Testament: Abbr. : MATT
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Strive. : VIE

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 29 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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