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Harold T. Bers
Harold T. Bers

New York Times, Saturday, April 9, 1955

Author:
Harold T. Bers
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 39.8 Grid has duplicate clues.
Harold T. Bers has 138 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,111
Across
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Middle name on a dollar bill. : BAKER
6
Hemingway's nickname. : PAPA
10
Brazil's President. : CAFE
14
Companion of "kicking." : ALIVE
15
All over again. : ANEW
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October birthstone. : OPAL
17
Measure of highway width. : LANES
18
Decorative ribbon. : SASH
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Answer in certain quizzes. : TRUE
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Symbol of lucubration. : MIDNIGHTOIL
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Sea bird. : ERN
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Inkling. : IDEA
25
One end of the Suez Canal. : REDSEA
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Sea bird. : GANNET
30
Low bow. : SALAAM
32
Excited. : AGOG
33
Clan. : SEPT
35
Plagiarize: Slang. : SWIPE
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Twelve dozen. : GROSS
40
Rhee soldier. : ROK
41
Be kind to a college. : ENDOW
42
Fé or Cruz. : SANTA
43
Porgy's method of locomotion. : GOAT
45
Santee distance. : MILE
46
"Jack ___ to the rescue!" : DALTON
48
Sweeps. : WHISKS
50
Word on withdrawal slip. : BEARER
52
Slant. : BIAS
53
City north of Cambridge. : ELY
54
Drive where Ike used to live. : MORNINGSIDE
60
Exploit. : GEST
62
Little look. : PEEP
63
Helicopters. : GIROS
64
Shaky feeling. : AGUE
65
Unfounded. : IDLE
66
Slow-moving animal. : LORIS
67
Newcastle's river. : TYNE
68
Unfeeling. : COLD
69
Growing out. : ENATE
Down
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Something soothing. : BALM
2
Turkish regiment. : ALAI
3
Considerate. : KIND
4
Subject of Tannhauser aria. : EVENINGSTAR
5
Make one's home. : RESIDE
6
Turkish title. : PASHA
7
Med school subject: Abbr. : ANAT
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South of the Border money. : PESO
9
In a spin. : AWHIRL
10
Guest bed. : COT
11
Paris afternoons. : APRESMIDIS
12
French statesman. : FAURE
13
Version of Helen. : ELENA
21
Retrieves. : GETS
22
Domestic document. : LEASE
26
R. A. F. "milk run." : DAWNMISSION
27
Comedian's specialty. : GAGS
28
City 120 miles from Delhi. : AGRA
29
"Lazy Bones" liked it. : NOONDAYSUN
30
Golf club. : SPOON
31
Icebreaker recently in Antarctic. : ATKA
34
Therefore. : ERGO
36
The first dark-horse President. : POLK
37
Sheep. : EWES
39
Oregon's capital. : SALEM
44
Duplicate. : TWIN
47
___ of Capricorn. : TROPIC
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Bargain. : HAGGLE
50
Biblical verb. : BEGAT
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Poem. : ELEGY
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Man, for instance. : BIPED
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Take another crack at. : REDO
56
Dickens character. : NELL
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Singer Petina. : IRRA
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___ yourself. : DOIT
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To be: Latin. : ESSE
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Where hooks and slices are made. : TEE

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

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