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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

New York Times, Monday, March 19, 1956

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 305 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 34.7 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1956, The New York TimesNo. 2,456
Across
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Form of trade. : SWAP
5
Interval of time. : LAPSE
10
Extorted money from. : BLED
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Trucking job. : HAUL
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Mesopotamian: Var. : IRAKI
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The Harp of heaven. : LYRA
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Stepped into a labor dispute. : INTERVENED
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Any appliance. : UNIT
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Garden blooms. : PEONIES
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Roman playwright (190–159 B. C.). : TERENCE
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Late German master novelist. : MANN
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Impromptu, as a game. : SCRUB
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Grassy ground. : SWARD
27
How's that again? : HUH
28
Business figures. : COSTS
32
French President. : COTY
33
Achieve a burnish. : RUB
34
Perfume named for Cyprus. : CHYPRE
35
King: Fr. : ROI
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Rebuke. : CENSURE
38
Many millenniums. : EON
39
Beloved. : ADORED
41
Freezing. : ICY
42
Fly before the wind. : SCUD
43
Talking birds of India. : MYNAS
44
Political group. : ADA
45
Ways of running. : GAITS
46
Butcher-hero. : MARTY
48
Hawaiian choreography. : HULA
49
Mosque tower. : MINARET
52
Jungle denizen of equatorial Africa. : GORILLA
55
Angry. : IRED
56
Workers' bargaining unit. : LABORUNION
58
Cooper heroine. : CORA
59
Religious images. : ICONS
60
Sec. Benson. : EZRA
61
Shortly. : ANON
62
Chief Justice, 1864–73. : CHASE
63
Views. : SEES
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Unit of trade. : SHIP
2
Lose power. : WANE
3
Neologism in industry. : AUTOMATION
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With all members present. : PLENARY
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Add pep to. : LIVEN
6
Warlike Olympian. : ARES
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Carefree piper. : PAN
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Informal drawing. : SKETCH
9
Duck down. : EIDER
10
Art treasure of Huntington Gallery, San Marino, Calif. : BLUEBOY
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Actress Fontanne. : LYNN
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Commentator Sevareid. : ERIC
13
Boy meets girl. : DATE
18
End of the cheese. : RIND
22
Fine ruffle. : RUCHE
24
Part of the farm problem. : SUBSIDY
25
Take off! : SCRAM
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Sylvan. : WOODY
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Follower of Attila. : HUN
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Work in a limited field. : SPECIALIZE
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Freshwater trophy. : TROUT
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Beams a message. : SENDS
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Sinclair Lewis' nickname. : RED
34
Peculiar call. : CRY
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Composer Franck. : CESAR
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Fiddler crab genus. : UCA
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Moslem fasting month. : RAMADAN
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Salt solutions. : SALINES
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Make part of. : ATTACH
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Hindu teacher. : GURU
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Memento. : RELIC
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Swaps. : HORSE
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Isinglass. : MICA
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Raw material for factories. : IRON
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Stout detective. : NERO
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Angles: Comb. form. : GONS
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Knowledge. : LORE
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Genus of ducks. : ANAS
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Constrictor. : BOA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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