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Thomas Meekin
Thomas Meekin

THE READER'S GUIDE

New York Times, Sunday, May 4, 1947

Author:
Thomas Meekin
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 162, Blocks: 84, Avg Word Len: 5.49, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 667 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 163, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 64 Grid has duplicate clues.
Thomas Meekin has 202 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1947, The New York TimesNo. 273
Across
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Lovborg's toast to Thea: "Hedda Gabler." : HEALTH
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A lottery. : RAFFLE
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Pours out. : EFFUSES
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Title of Eugene O'Neill's Jones. : EMPEROR
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Boys' society, sponsored by Masons. : DEMOLAY
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Stealthy. : FURTIVE
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City in Washington. : SPOKANE
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So were "The Last Days of Pompeii." : AWESOME
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Citizens. : FREEMEN
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Sesame. : TIL
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Thither. : YON
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City near which Virgil was born. : MANTUA
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Samuel Lover's hero, O'More. : RORY
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Bantu language. : ILA
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Love: Greek. : EROS
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A being in Omar's Rubaiyat. : RECORDER
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Author of the Casket Letters? : MARY
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Dart along. : FLIT
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Second daughter of King Lear. : REGAN
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What Ophelia's thoughts do. : WANDER
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Perception. : TACT
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Good: Spanish. : BUENO
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Caliban's mother: "The Tempest." : SYCORAX
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Lily Bart's is riches: "The House of Mirth." : DESIRE
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The Brigadier Gerard's unit. : HUSSAR
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Sectarian. : CULTIC
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Make moist. : DAMP
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Yes: Slang. : SURE
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Brigadoonians. : SCOTS
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Poems by Keats. : ODES
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Kind of gig. : TILBURY
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14.34 gal. in Hungary. : AKO
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P. T. Barnum's favorite plant. : PEANUT
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She slams the door as the curtain falls. : NORA
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Consecrate. : ANOINT
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Assert. : AVER
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Modified. : ALTERED
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One A. M.: "Paul Revere's Ride." : LEXINGTON
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Lift of a wave: Naut. : SCEND
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Sent back. : REMANDED
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Madame Butterfly's sash. : OBI
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Château d'Yquem. : SAUTERNE
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Feminine name. : ANICE
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Turtles' shells. : CARAPACES
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Automobile part. : STARTER
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Color. : TINT
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Used in soap. : POTASH
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Bulwer-Lytton's schoolmaster. : ARAM
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Bay windows. : ORIELS
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What Bjornson's Fisher Maiden does. : ACT
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Hamlet's friend. : HORATIO
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Italian coins. : LIRE
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Waters in Thoreau's "Walden." : PONDS
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Where Goethe wrote "Hermann und Dorothea." : JENA
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Translator of Arabian Nights. : LANE
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Port in Sterne's "Sentimental Journey." : CALAIS
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Longfellow's midnight rider. : REVERE
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Lightest. : FINEST
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Some appear in Plutarch's Lives. : ORATORS
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Mountain nymph. : OREAD
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Units of weight. : TONS
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Edible plants. : CHARDS
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Ostiole. : STOMA
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September ___. : MORN
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Of ___ I sing. : THEE
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Conferred. : PARLEYED
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Glacial ridges. : OSAR
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King of Judah. : ASA
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A goddess in the Iliad. : IRIS
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Trees of Mediterranean region. : CAROBS
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___ Brown Maid: Percy's "Reliques." : NUT
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Go astray. : ERR
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A skittle. : NINEPIN
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Pitt Crawley's rank: "Vanity Fair." : BARONET
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Counterfeit. : IMITATE
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Young food fish. : CODLING
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Bettors by word of mouth. : ORALERS
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Sweet potatoes: Span. : CAMOTES
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Makes easy. : ENABLES
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Command. : BEHEST
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Sitting; said of statues. : SEDENT
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Heroine of "The Scarlet Letter." : HESTER
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Supreme states. : EMPIRES
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One of Plato's dialogues. : APOLOGY
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About 3c in Albania. : LEK
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Dog in Shakespeare's "King Lear." : TRAY
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Lovelace's first love. : HONOR
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Offered for Injun Joe: Tom Sawyer. : REWARD
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Corrected. : AMENDED
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Nourished. : FOSTERED
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From "the Mill on the Floss." : FLOUR
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Friend to Kipling's Kim. : LAMA
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Polyphemus had one: Odyssey. : EYE
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Endeavor. : EFFORT
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Br'er Rabbit's coat is ___. : FURRY
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Norse god of peace. : FREY
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American Indian. : UTE
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Comparisons. : SIMILES
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Romance by Frances Burney. : EVELINA
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Mr. Claghorn. : SENATOR
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A resuming. : RENEWAL
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One of the inseparable friends. : DAMON
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Won by Ben Hur. : RACE
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Baglike part. : SAC
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Rare book. : CAXTON
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A meddler. : MARPLOT
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Unite. : FUSE
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Frank Swinnerton's novel, 1917. : NOCTURNE
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A musical art. : TIMING
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Editor of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall." : BURY
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Rip's gun is. : RUSTED
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Nature of the fallen ones: "Paradise Lost." : SATANICAL
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Injured. : HURT
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In its forehead gleams the Moonstone. : IDOL
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Shroud and wax. : CERE
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Mohammedan religious customs. : SUNNAS
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Like the moon. : SELENIC
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Aromatic herb. : CATMINT
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Kind of play. : ONEACT
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It gives music. : SAXOPHONE
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Organic nature. : BIOS
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Turned away. : AVERTED
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Doghouses. : KENNELS
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Whispered to Berta: "Hedda Gabler." : ORDERS
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A display: Ital. : PARATA
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Globulin from seed of silver maple. : ACERIN
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Literary codes. : DECORA
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Philippine tree. : IBA
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Polish nobles. : STAROSTS
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Factual notes. : DATA
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Romance by Sir Thomas More. : UTOPIA
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Step of rope ladder. : RATLINE
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Asiatics. : ASIANS
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Queen Bess' Swedish suitor. : ERIC
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___ Teasdale. : SARA
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Corn bread. : PONE
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Gypsies' song: Tolstoy's "Redemption." : MELODY
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Elephant group. : HERD
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Hero of "Les Miserables." : JEAN
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Endive: French. : ESCAROLE
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___ and Old Lace. : ARSENIC
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Play by Edward B. Sheldon. : ROMANCE
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Wearing away. : EROSION
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Open gallery. : VERANDA
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Sir Nigel overcomes them: A. Conan Doyle. : FOES
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Gives sovereignty to. : THRONES
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Siouan Indian. : OTO
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Pleasing. : ROSEATE
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Spruce up. : SMARTEN
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Luggage. : THINGS
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Anne of Geierstein's father. : ALBERT
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Intermissions. : RESTS
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It befalls Edmond Dantes. : ARREST
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Threefold. : TRINE
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Eastern measure. : PARAH
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Author of "The Black Tulip." : DUMAS
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Philippine tree. : IPIL
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Solicitude. : CARE
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"The ___ Machine": H. G. Wells. : TIME
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The jujube. : ELB
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Mr. Acres: Sheridan's "The Rivals." : BOB
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Bushy clump. : TOD

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7 unique to this puzzle, 57 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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