Notepads are published with the puzzles.
David Steinberg notes are from him and from other Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project litzers and proofreaders.
This is the first crossword published by the New York Times. (Charles Erlenkotter's biography.)
In 89-Across clue, added accent over "i" in "Nîmes."
"Marie C. French" may be a pseudonym for Mabel C. Daggett, who constructed the previous puzzle ... and taught French!
In 93-Across clue, removed period after end quotation mark.
In 57-Across clue, added em dash before "Bryant."
In 98-Across clue, added accent over first "e" in "Liège."
122-Across clue originally had "strategem"; changed to "stratagem."
This is the first Times crossword with mirror symmetry.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger was the publisher of the New York Times, and Charles Merz was an editor. You can read more about this puzzle here.
Original 131-Across clue had "602?661" in the parentheses; added an en dash after the question mark.
100-Across clue was originally "Skin affection."; changed to "Skin affliction."
51-Across clue originally had "1-12"; changed to "1/12." 107-Across clue originally had "1-10"; changed to "1/10."
Byline was spelled "Luzzato" in original; left it that way. In 117-Down clue, added accents over final "e"s in "Liberté" and "Fraternité."
Original 9-Down clue had acute accent over first "a" in "à la "; changed it to grave accent.
Original 62-Down clue had em dash after colon; removed it.
Original 87-Across clue had two "at"s; removed one of them.
Try reading the first row of Across entries in sequence! Also, original 2-Down clue had "Historian"; changed to "historian." Original 84-Down clue had "war"; changed to "War."
Original 104-Down clue had "down"; changed to "Down."
In 90-Across clue, added period after "inspired."
Original 95-Across clue had comma before end quote; changed to period.
Original 130-Across clue had "pecularities"; changed to "peculiarities."
Original 39-Across clue had period after "Highness"; removed it and put colon after end quotation mark.
Original 52-Across clue had period after "Ecuador"; replaced it with comma.
Original 57-Down clue had periods after "painter" and "1666"; deleted both and put period after parentheses.
In 90-Across clue, added slash to indicate line break in quote.
Original 134-Across clue had "Postoffice"; changed to "Post office."
Grid mistake in original solution at 94-Down and 111-Across — A instead of E. On PDF. E was handwritten over the incorrect A. Corrected it to E.
Original 48-Down clue had no space between underscore and "Ferry"; added one.
Original 86-Down clue had "Misapprenhensions"; changed to "Misapprehensions."
Original 87-Across clue had "chlorophyl"; changed to "chlorophyll."
Original 48-Across clue had period after "Natoma"; removed it.
92-Down question mark in parentheses appears in the original.
Inserted slash in 15-Down clue to indicate line break in quote.
Original 146-Down clue had "McArthur"; changed to "MacArthur."
In 70-Across clue, added umlaut over "u" in "Atatürk."
In 27-Across clue, added comma after underscore.
Original 21-Down clue had "calender"; changed to "calendar." In 106-Down clue, added hyphen after year.
In 24-Across clue, deleted colon after "diplomatist."
The 74-Down clue appears to be inaccurate. Its answer means "a person who practices adoration of the host" ... or "a lover of bread."
Original 124-Across clue had "Name"; changed to "name."
In 41-Across clue, added accent over "e" in "Radamés'."
In 73-Across clue, corrected N. E. to N. W. Also fixed numerous dates that seemed inaccurate.
61-Down clue is "March days." as in the original, but IDES is a single day.
In 25-Across clue, added hyphen to "B29's."
C. E. Noel may have been Charles Erlenkotter (given that the puzzle was published on Christmas Eve and that Erlenkotter was prolific around that time).
In 14-Down clue, added accent over first "e" in "Liège."
Quote in 99-Across clue was split into six lines in the original, probably to fit the column, but online source indicates there are only two lines, with break appearing where the slash mark (which was not in the original) appears.
Read the first three across answers in order for a bonus message, which I assume was intentional!
Original 42-Across clue had acute accent over first "e" in "Liège"; corrected it to grave.
In 4-Down clue, deleted hyphen after first "Tin."
In the original PDF, this puzzle's 55-Across clue erroneously listed the year as 1923.
Original 134-Down clue had acute accent over first "e" in "Liège"; corrected it to grave.
Original 131-Down clue had acute accent over first "e" in "Liège"; corrected it to grave.
In original 96-Down clue, period was outside parentheses; moved it inside.
Original 123-Across entry should have been SUZETTE, not SUSETTE; could not change this.
In 99-Across clue, changed comma after underscore to period.
Original 40-Down clue had "Capitol"; changed to "Capital."
In 62-Down clue, added accent over "a" in "Vis-à-vis."
In 139-Down clue, added accent over first "e" in "Liège."
In 1-Across clue, added accent over "a" in "vis-à-vis."
In 97-Down clue, removed colon after "Bonaparte."
Original 133-Across clue appears to be incomplete, with just "___ Arunca, Fifth Army." at bottom of column (including the period). But top of next column has "capture near Naples.", even with the period after "Army." Deleted period after "Army" and merged both parts into one clue.
The 40-Down clue is erroneous: "The Sheik" was written by Edith Maud HULL, not Ethel May DELL.
In clue for 43-Down, changed "slang" to "Slang."
Original 97-Across clue had "genius"; changed to "genus."
Original 95-Across clue had "Postoffice"; changed to "Post office."
In 45-Down clue, added period after "Secy."
Original 109-Across clue had "Coresponding"; changed to "Corresponding."
In 26-Down clue, added period after "Secy."
Original 2-Down clue had " . . . City?"; changed to " . . . City"?
Number for 142-Across clue in original was typed as 112. In 73-Down clue, added hyphen after "Ben" and em dash before "Gen."
Original 49-Down clue had "NE."; deleted period.
In 120-Down clue, deleted comma after "Terry."
In 97-Down clue, added em dash before "Oscar."
In 50-Across clue, added umlaut over "e" in Brontë.
In 50-Down clue, "Shephard's" could be a typo in the original (especially given 73-Down), but did not change it.
Original 84-Down clue had "commeration"; changed to "commemoration."
In 65-Down, 85-Down, and 107-Down clues, replaced commas after underscores with periods.
55-Down's clue appears to be erroneous. It should read [Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle's victim.].
Original 20-Across clue had "affection"; changed to "affliction."
Original 21-Across had "Queen"; changed to "Queene." Original 122-Across had "Soliel"; changed to "Soleil."
Original 29-Across clue had "Dicken's"; changed to "Dickens'." Original 70-Down clue had "Promoter."; changed to "Promoters."
Original 38-Across clue had "1860"; corrected to "1859." In 139-Down clue, SYR is clued as "Beirut is its capital: Abbr.," but Lebanon was a separate nation by 1946 (gaining its independence in 1943), so Beirut was no longer in Syria.
NYT misspelled the constructor name on this one. P. J. Lammana should be P. J. Lamanna.
In 22-Across, IGOROT is clued as "Indonesian of northern Luzon.," but Luzon (where the Igorot live) is in the Philippines. In original, number of clue for 62-Down was mistyped as 63.
Unfixable grid mistake at 6-Down—NANNETTE should be NANETTE. Also, in 10-Down clue, changed Patua to Patna.
Original 82-Down clue had two "in"s; deleted one of them.
Corrected the surname's spelling in 23-Across; it originally read "Navarro."
In 16-Down clue, added umlaut over "e" in "Brontë."
Corrected the author name in the 45-Across clue from Wescott to Westcott.
Corrected the birth year in 58-Down from 1620 to 1622.
The original 126-Down clue was [Hebrew month.], but this appears to be erroneous. Changed to [Hebrew letter.].
Corrected "Chamberlain" to "Chamberlin" in 73-Across.
In 33-Down clue, corrected "Israfil" to "Israfel."
In 111-Across, corrected "Biambi" to "Bimbi."
I corrected a number of errors, thanks to Jane Foley: In 9-Down, I changed "to" to "on"; in 40-Down, I changed "Posilipo" to "Posillipo"; and in 89-Down, I changed "Connor" to "Conner." Most notably, 110-Down should be [British planes.] rather than [German planes.], though I left this in for historical purposes.
90-Across is a New York Times error: The fourth letter of the answer should be "e."
Original 75-Down clue was missing the first parenthesis; added it.
62-Across is a New York Times error: The answer should be spelled with two R's.
Original 63-Down clue had comma after "Navy"; removed it. Clue number for 130-Down was missing in the original—clue appeared without a number, just beneath clue for 129-Down, with "sponge" lowercased. Capitalized "sponge" and made it the clue for 130-Down.
In 82-Down clue, corrected "The Red Rose" to "The Black Rose." Also fixed a seemingly erroneous date.
In 46-Down clue, corrected "sicicate" to "silicate"; in 65-Down clue, corrected "alotted" to "allotted."
Original 78-Across clue had comma after underscore; changed to period.
In 125-Across, corrected "O'Neill" to "O'Neil."
Original 7-Down clue was missing open quotation mark; added it.
Original 53-Down clue was missing period; added it.
Original 128-Across clue had "affection"; changed to "affliction." Also changed "Ursanus" to "Uranus" in the 39-Down clue.
Peter Zenger (see 87 Down) is a key figure in the historical fight for freedom of the press.
In order to match its clue, the fourth letter in 9-Down should be an "O" rather than an "A."
In the 84-Down clue, corrected the year range from 1926-35 to 1934-35, since this clue's subject didn't technically become queen until 1934.
Original 63-Down clue had "Stripes"; changed to "Strips."
In 21-Across clue, the school should be the University of Chicago, not Chicago University; left as in original. Also, 99-Across clue appears to be erroneous: According to a 1949 obituary, Mr. Benjamin Parry worked in the Whitehall Building on Battery Place.
In 45-Across clue, added comma after underscore.
Original 83-Down clue had no colon after quotation mark; added one.
Solution grid had HAMELOT at 104-Across; corrected to CAMELOT.
Original grid at 90-Across had WEIN; corrected to WIEN.
Original 107-Down clue had period after "1601"; put it after parentheses.
Original 134-Down clue had "Pharoahs"; corrected to "Pharaohs."
Original 59-Across clue had "Moves"; changed to "Move."
Original 44-Across clue had period after end quote; moved it inside. Original 93-Across clue had "coutourier"; changed to "couturier."
Clue for 117-Down has hyphen before "tando," but "rallentando" is one word; left as in original.
Original 113-Down clue had no punctuation at end of quote; added colon.
Original 52-Across clue had no period after underscore; added one.
Original 90-Across clue had comma after "Evans"; removed it. Original 39-Down clue had comma after "that"; replaced it with period.
Original 155-Across clue had comma after underscore; removed it.
In order to match its clue, the fourth letter of 59-Down should be an "O" rather than an "A."
Original 61-Down clue had "His"; changed to "his."
Original 13-Down clue had comma after underscore; replaced it with period.
The 141-Across clue appears to be erroneous. Carroll REECE was the chairman rather than the whip for the RNC in 1946.
Original 142-Across clue had "war"; changed to "War."
Original 63-Down clue had "Tono Bungay"; added hyphen.
No number or clue for 11-Down in original; inserted number and clue.
Original 81-Down clue had "Dodacanese"; changed to "Dodecanese."
Original 75-Across clue had no hyphen after underscore; added one. Original 74-Down clue had "cardamon"; changed to "cardamom."
Original 129-Down clue had "wine"; changed to "vine."
Rumor has it that Margaret Farrar herself constructed this puzzle, which was the first daily-sized crossword to run in the New York Times.
In original 24-Down clue, "But" appears on a new line; inserted slash to indicate that.
Original 6-Across clue has "Actor"; changed to "actor."
From Flip Koski: This puzzle's constructor is likely Eugene T. Maleska, based on the entry HARDSHELL CRAB. In her Introduction to Maleska's book "Across and Down," Margaret Farrar expressly referenced Maleska as having constructed a puzzle with the entry HARDSHELLED CRAB. The only Times puzzle with that entry is this crossword of October 7, 1950.
In original, clues for 1- and 7-Across are bracketed, with "Welfare program" appearing at 1-Across and (uncapitalized) "recently enlarged" at 7-Across, as here.
In original, clues for 1- and 7-Across are bracketed, with "Two members of" appearing at 1-Across and "Truman's Cabinet" at 7-Across, as here.
Original 10-Down clue had "O'Keefe's"; changed to "O'Keeffe's."
Original 41-Across clue had "Cleremont"; changed to "Clermont."
Original 18-Across clue had "L'Infant"; changed to "L'Enfant."
In original, clues for 1- and 8-Across were bracketed, with "Founders of the" at 1-Across and "American Mercury." at 8-Across, as here.
Original 87-Across clue had "Adia's"; changed to "Aida's."
Original 7-Across clue had "across"; changed to "Across."
Original grid had ERASER/SALER at 25-Across/13-Down; changed to ERASES/SALES.
In original, second line of 44-Across quote was on a second line; added slash to indicate that.
In 33-Down clue, the question mark in parentheses is as in the original.
Original 2-Down clue had "Shakespearian"; changed to "Shakespearean."
Original 50-Across clue had "Leopoldsvill."; changed it to "Leopoldville."
Original 12-Down clue had comma after "violinist"; removed it.
Original 134-Across clue had "Dutchess"; changed to "Duchess."
In clue for 36-Down, added umlaut over "e" in "A Brontë Jane."
Original 45-Across clue had no comma after "Sea"; added one.
Last digit of original 52-Across clue (and ends of several other clues in the column) weren't visible, so used a "0" as an arbitrary placeholder. (Current elevation is 10,991.)
Original 3-Down clue had "1 1-3"; changed to "1 1/3."
Original 10-Down clue had acute accent over "e" in "Liège"; changed to grave.
In original, clues for 1- and 7-Across are bracketed, with "Science fiction" at 1-Across and (uncapitalized) "favorite" at 7-Across, as here.
Original 45-Across clue was missing the period after "Jan"; added it. Original 62-Across clue had "lost"; changed it to "Lost."
Original 92-Down clue had "in" printed twice; removed one.
Original 7-Across clue had "Nato"; changed to "NATO."
Original 1-Down clue had asterisks instead of ellipsis points; corrected this.
In original 51-Down clue, "Must" began on a new line; added slash here instead.
Original 26-Down clue had no "A" before "Bell"; added it.
Original 47-Across clue had colon after quote (along with the em dash); removed it.
Original 26-Across clue had period after "of"; replaced it with colon.
1- and 6-Across clues were bracketed in the original, with "Naval station in the Orkneys" appearing at 1-Across and "Islands" at 6-Across.
Scapa Flow in the Orkneys was the location of the naval base in 1- and 6- Across. The Orkneys are fascinating; full of history from Viking settlements to stone rings rivaling Stonehenge to WW II battleships still sunk in a harbor.
Left 54-Down clue as in original, but the ship was "The Pequod."
Original 33-Down clue had "across"; changed to "Across."
Added the accent over "e" in the 53-Down clue "___ Misérables."
Original 139-Across had "billions"; changed to "billion."
Added accent in "Les Misérables" in 90-Down clue.
Original grid had VENTURE at 113-Across and EAVE at 130-Across; changed VENTURE to VENTURA and EAVE to PAVE.
Original 27-Across clue had "annisary"; changed to "anniversary."
Original 17-Across clue had no comma after underscore; added one. In 22-Across, title should have been "The Arabian Nights"; didn't change it.
Original 28-Down clue had two "at"s; removed one.
Original 72-Down clue had no comma after underscore; added one.
Original 41-Across clue had "across"; changed to "Across."
Original 24-Across clue had "Abled-bodied"; change it to "Able-bodied." Original 31-Across clue had "Mcgillicuddy"; changed it to "McGillicuddy." In 25-Down clue, added umlaut over "e" in "Brontë ."
Original 23-Across clue had comma after "non"; removed it. Original 1-Down clue had "1-6"; changed it to "1/6."
Clue for 38-Down used the number "1" instead of the usual "I"; left it as in the original.
Original 21-Across clue had two "the"s; removed one.
Added the cedilla in "Alençon" in the 29-Down clue.
Original 45-Down clue had two "etc."s; removed one.
Original 50-Down clue had "cresendo"; changed to "crescendo."
Original 51-Across clue had "across"; changed to "Across."
Original grid had EPL at 56-Across; changed it to EPI.
Original 62-Down clue had "granery"; changed to "granary."
Original 105-Down clue had "Ce"; changed to "Ça" (with cedilla too).
Original 7-Down clue had extra "for instance" at end; deleted it.
Original 42-Across clue had acute accent over first e in siècle; corrected it to grave accent.
Original 60-Across clue had "Ukranian"; corrected it to "Ukrainian."
Original 14-Down clue didn't have a comma after the blank; added one.
Original 34-Across clue had "Brillancy"; changed it to "Brilliancy."
Original 60-Down clue had asterisks instead of ellipsis points; corrected this.
The 14-Across clue was erroneously printed as "Lavendar, for instance."
Original 135-Across and 71-Down clues had "across"; changed it to "Across."
Original 30-Down clue had "Barrymores'"; changed it to "Barrymore's."
Original 59-Across clue had asterisks instead of ellipsis points; corrected this. In same clue, original seemed to have a period after "Pat," though it could have been a comma. The comma makes more sense, so put that in.
Original 57-Across clue had accent over "la"; moved it to over "a."
Original 6-Down clue had accent over "la"; moved it over "a."
From Philip Koski: This puzzle's subject is the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. It was published on the date of the coronation, June 2, 1953.
Original 7-Across clue had no period after "Sen"; added one.
"Put in Bay" in original 17-Down clue; changed this to "Put-in-Bay."
Original 39-Down clue had "Housewive's"; corrected this to "Housewives'."
Original 6-Down clue had "Breath"; changed this to "Breathe."
Clue for 88-Down appears to be incorrect — BARE seems to be the 22nd word, not the 14th.
Original 5-Down clue had acute accent over first e in "scène"; corrected it to grave.
Original 9-Down had acute accent over second e in "Première"; corrected it to grave.
No tilde over n in "senorita" in original; added one.
Original 56-Across clue had comma after "song"; removed it.
Original 32-Down clue had comma after "singer"; removed it.
NYT grid mistake — answer to 86-Across clue should be LEVIN, not LEVINE.
No accent over a in "vis-à-vis" at 8-Down; added it.
Original 15-Across clue had comma after "singer"; removed it.
Original 86-Across clue had "Underpriviledged"; corrected it to "Underprivileged."
Original 4-Down clue had "example"; corrected it to "exemple."
Original 31-Across clue had comma after "lecturer"; removed it.
Original 14-Down clue had "Fledgings"; although that is a word, probably "Fledglings" was meant, so made that change.
Several grid mistakes in original: 115-Across/102-Down crossing was VAG/NOGERS (now changed to VAT/NOTERS); 68-Across was RIMA (now changed to RILE); 73-Across was SENS (now changed to SELF); 54-Down was MEMNON (now changed to MELLON); and 62-Down was RASED (now changed to REFED).
This is the first pangram published in the NYT.
Original 19-Down clue had comma after "composer"; removed it.
Original had no period after "etc"; added one.
Original 62-Across had no tilde over n in "Madrileño"; added one.
Original has uncorrectable grid mistake at 2-Down — answer should be ELIOT, not ELOIT, but crossing letters support the erroneous answer.
Original 32-Across clue had period outside final quotation mark; put it inside.
Original 10-Down clue had AQ and QJ; corrected this to AQ and KJ.
Original 101-Down clue had "Altdorfis"; corrected this to "Altdorf is."
Original 47-Down clue had no colon before "Lat."; added one.
Original 8-Down clue had "bacterioligist"; corrected it to "bacteriologist."
Original 7-Down clue had no umlaut over e in Brontës; added one.
Original 46-Across clue had comma after "Morgan"; deleted it.
Original 51-Down clue had AQ or QJ; corrected this to AQ or KJ.
Original 86-Down clue had "for for"; deleted one of them.
Original 38-Across clue had "world series"; changed this to "World Series."
Original 48-Across clue had "Ante-freezer"; changed this to "Anti-freezer."
Original 39-Across clue had no tilde over n in "Señor"; added one.
The area of a baseball diamond (66-Across) is 8,100 sq. ft., yet the 180 sq. ft. measure appears in several AREA clues from this time. It's a bit of a mystery.
Original 61-Across clue had "caffein"; changed it to "caffeine." Original 4-Down clue had "hering"; changed it to "herring."
Clue for 27-Down is how it appeared in the original, though it seems wrong.
Grid mistake in original—76-Across was BEAR (now corrected to PEAR), and 69-Down was ABES (now corrected to APES).
Original 2-Down clue had "etc"; corrected it to "etc."
Original 56-Across clue had "unforseen"; corrected it to "unforeseen."
Original 23-Across clue was indented.
Note that the 20-Across clue is true to what was published! One solver suggested [Pepsins.] as a more accurate alternative.
Early litzer noted the following: Taken from NYT Magazine (2/16/1992) 50 Years of Crossword Puzzles. Described as an "inner clue" puzzle created by a postal worker and inveterate puzzle maker from the Bronx.
Original 37-Down clue had no umlaut over the e in "Brontë"; added one.
Original 46-Across clue had "artifically"; corrected this to "artificially."
Original 29-Across clue had no accent over the a in "Pâté" (though it did over the e); added it.
Clue for 12-Across is as it appeared in the original, though it probably should have been "Lights, camera, ___!"
The 50-Across clue in the New York Times erroneously read [Exclamation of delight.] as opposed to [Exclamations of delight.]
Original 52-Across clue had comma after blank; replaced it with period.
Original 24-Across clue had "Shakesperean"; corrected it to "Shakespearean."
Original 33-Across had no umlaut over e in "Brontës"; added it.
Clue for 24-Down is as it appeared in original but probably should have been: There are some in "The Teahouse."
Original 48-Across clue had "Pretentions"; corrected this to "Pretensions."
Original 44-Down clue had "Châtau"; corrected this to "Château." (Original had correct accent over the first a.)
Château
Original 38-Across clue had "vacation"; corrected this to "vocation."
Original 25-Across clue had "social group" twice; removed one of them.
Original grid entry for 130-Across was SALA; corrected this to SAGA.
Original 18-Across clue had "Butterfield"; corrected this to "BUtterfield."
The NYT incorrectly printed the letter at the 93-Across/88-Down crossing as an N in the answer key. Changed to an L.
Original 20-Across clue had "duo"; corrected this to "due."
Original 47-Down clue had comma after "tardes"; removed it.
Replaced "Forbus" with the correctly spelled "Faubus" in 14-Down.
Original 2-Down clue missing umlaut over "e" in "Brontë"; added it.
Changed the 55-Down clue from [Word of agreement.] to [Words of agreement.]
Original 25-Across clue missing a period after "Secy"; added it. Also, original 6-Down clue had "Terpischore"; corrected it to "Terpsichore."
Original 36-Down clue had no accent over "a" in "Pâté"; added it.
Clue for 42-Down entry (PELOTA) is incorrect; the pelota is the ball, and the cesta is the wicker basket used in jai alai.
Original grid had an "S" at crossing of 18-Down and 34-Across; corrected this to an "E."
Original 1-Down had "Lagend"; corrected this to "Legend."
Original 113-Across clue had "Manchausen"; changed to "Munchausen."
Original 32-Across clue had no period after "Cen"; added it.
Original solution grid had empty white square instead of black square after 47-Across entry; corrected this.
Original 66-Down clue had "Ttitles"; corrected this.
The area of a baseball diamond (35-Across) is 8,100 sq. ft., yet the 180 sq. ft. measure appears in several AREA clues from this time. It's a bit of a mystery.
Uncorrectable grid mistake at 33-Down—entry should be ERST.
Original 26-Across clue had a comma after "artist"; removed it.
Original 93-Across clue had a colon after "pope"; changed it to a semicolon.
In 5-Down clue, original accent over the second "e" in "Mendès" was acute instead of grave; corrected it.
Original 20-Down clue had "statues"; changed it to "statutes."
Original 51-Across clue had "auto biography"; changed it to "autobiography."
Original 57-Across clue did not have an accent over the "o" in "Asunción"; added it.
Original 32-Across clue had "anthing"; corrected it to "anything."
Original 74-Across clue had "Leader"; changed it to "leader."
Original 16-Across clue had "Lollabridgida"; corrected it to "Lollabrigida."
Original 38-Across had "Shakespearian"; corrected it to "Shakespearean." Original 8-Down clue had "snobishly"; corrected it to "snobbishly."
Original 31-Across clue had "Product of cre-"; "ative work" appeared after the clue for 30-Across. Fixed this.
Original 20-Across clue had "Bitter Root range"; changed this to "Bitterroot Range."
Original 35-Down clue had "state"; corrected it to "State."
Original 63-Across clue had no accent over the first "e" in "Misérables"; added the accent.
Original 30-Down clue had "diplimacy"; corrected it to "diplomacy."
Original 40-Down clue had "joi"; corrected it to "joie."
Original 3-Down clue had "Frition"; corrected it to "Friction."
Original solution PDF incorrect—the letter at the 21-Across/15-Down crossing is supposed to be an I, not an L. Corrected this.
Original 7-Across clue had "Coffehouses"; corrected it to "Coffeehouses."
Original 45-Down clue had "Songhit"; corrected it to "Song hit."
Original 52-Across clue had "Amassador"; corrected it to "Ambassador."
Original 7-Across clue had no comma; added it.
Original 1- through 39-Across clues missing from PDF; clues here are from a reprint of the puzzle in Series 29 Daily Puzzles Crosswords from The Times (Simon and Schuster), puzzle 71.
Original 13-Down clue was "German city. trial city." Changed this to "German trial city."
No underscore in original 9-Down clue after "Cyrano de"; added one.
Original clues for 86- through 102-Down missing from PDF; clues are from reprint of the puzzle.
Error in original solution PDF: 105-Across was supposed to be NEMO instead of NAME, making 97- and 99-Down MENAGE and ROWED, respectively. Fixed this.
Original 18-Across clue had comma after "Essays"; removed it.
Original 17-Across clue had "Lil"; corrected it to "Li'l."
Original 39-Across clue had "Fishook"; corrected it to "Fishhook."
Original PDF missing clues after 83-Down; clues are from reprint of puzzle in a book. Original 117-Across clue had "B. A."; changed this to "S. A." Original 122-Across clue had "Identation"; corrected this to "Indentation."
The actual lyric in 5-Across clue, from "The Ballad of Davy Crockett," should end with "when he was only three," not "when he was three." Did not correct this.
Original 46-Across clue had "Quandry"; corrected this to "Quandary."
Original 91-Down clue was missing in PDF; found clue in a reprint of the puzzle in a book.
Original 91-Down clue had "Boblink"; corrected this to "Bobolink."
In original PDF, the "player." portion of 13-Down clue ("Georgetown player.") was printed on a line following the 11-Down clue. Fixed this.
Note that 26-Down is misspelled: Edgar Bergen's character is Klinker, not Clinker.
Original 16-Across clue had acute accents over the first "e"s in "Scènes" and "Bohème"; replaced these with grave accents.
Original 58-Across clue had "Namessakes"; corrected it to "Namesakes."
Original 32-Down clue had "Beglian"; corrected it to "Belgian."
Original 33-Down clue had "Twas"; corrected it to "'Twas."
The NYT incorrectly printed the letter at the 103-Across/98-Down crossing as an L in the answer key. Changed to an H.
Original clue for 20-Across was for the 22-Across entry and vice versa. Switched the clues to correct this mistake.
Original 43-Across had "Premiered" with an acute accent over the second "e"; should be a grave accent, but Webster has it with no accent, so removed the accent altogether.
In 69-Across, ANNE was clued as "Gusti Huber's role." Huber's role in The Diary of Anne Frank wasn't Anne but Anne's mother, Edith.
In 35-Across, PEARLET is clued as "Small fruit." According to Merriam-Webster, a pearlet is a small pearl, not pear.
In 43-Down, SMILES is clued as "Popular song by Vincent Youmans." "Smiles" appears to have been the name of a Broadway show Youmans worked on, not any specific song from it.
Original 22-Across had "Caananite"; corrected it to "Canaanite."
Original 50-Down clue had "Blonds"; corrected it to "Blondes."
The NYT incorrectly printed the letter at the 65-Across/52-Down crossing as an M in the answer key. Changed to an N.
Original 17-Across had "bear like"; corrected it to "bearlike."
Original 59-Across had "portal." twice; deleted one.
Original 27-Across had "of" twice in succession; deleted one.
Original 39-Down had "it"; corrected it to "It."
Original 20-Across had "or"; corrected it to "of."
Original 9-Down clue had "Entrepeneur"; corrected it to "Entrepreneur."
Original 35-Across had no hyphen before "Magnon"; added it.
Original 27-Down had no exclamation point after the underscore; added it.
Original 7-Across clue had "100b"; corrected it to "1006."
Original 25-Down had "Callender"; corrected it to "Callander."
Original 54-Across had "Put In Bay"; corrected it to "Put-in-Bay."
Original had two 135-Across clues, one before 134-Across and one after it. The one before 134-Across (Common verb.) fits the 135-Across entry (BEEN); the one after 134-Across (Colored silk sash: Scot.) suggests BENN. No clue in original PDF for 133-Across (ROMANS); clue used came from book.
There's an unfixable error at 24-Across/3-Down: The answer key lists an M, and 24-Across makes sense as HEMLOCK, but 3-Down should clearly be HE-MAN rather than HEMAM.
Original 25-Down had "substance"; changed it to "Substance."
Original 11-Down had "Massachuetts"; corrected it to "Massachusetts."
Original 52-Across had "mikado"; changed it to "Mikado."
Original 54-Across had "popular"; changed it to "Popular."
Original 34-Down had "Coloq."; corrected it to "Colloq."
Original 63-Across had two clues: "Warrant officer: Contr." and "Petty officer:" Used first.
Original 57-Down had "Trojan's"; corrected it to "Trajan's."
Original 58-Across had comma outside end quote; put it inside. Original 29-Down was missing underscore; added it.
Original 50-Down had "stertoriously"; corrected it to "stertorously."
Original 25-Across had "pumpkin," but the line in the poem by James Whitcomb Riley is "The frost is on the punkin . . . "; corrected this.
Original 66-Across clue had no beginning quotation mark; added it.
Original 46-Across was missing underscore; added it.
Original 20-Down had "strategems"; corrected it to "stratagems."
Original 59-Across had two underscores ("Give a ___ ___ horse he can ride . . . "; removed one. Same with 48-Down; removed one here, too.
Original 29-Down had "strategem"; corrected it to "stratagem." Original 40-Down had two underscores; removed one.
Original 14-Across had two underscores; removed one.
Original 36-Down had "Uncle: Span." for TIA; corrected this to "Aunt: Span."
Original 51-Across had "strategem"; corrected it to "stratagem." Original 21-Down had "sympton"; corrected it to "symptom."
In 21-Across, STAR is clued as "Venus or Vega." Venus is a planet, not a star.
Original 19-Across had "tintinabulation"; corrected this to "tintinnabulation." Original 19-Across also had "tells"; corrected this to "wells."
Also, 138-Across clue reads "A rose is a rose is a rose." Stein herself, however, left off the initial word "A."
Original 49-Down had "Playright"; corrected it to "Playwright."
Original 43-Down had "milieu"; corrected this to "milieux," since the actual entry is plural.
Original 102-Across clue had "Improvizes"; corrected this to "Improvises."
Original 3-Down clue had "Predicter"; changed it to "Predictor."
Original solution PDF had incorrect letter (T) at intersection of 71-Across and 51-Down; corrected it to N.
31-Down originally had "Ukranian"; corrected it to "Ukrainian."
24-Across originally had "Carrousels"; corrected it to "Carousals."
49-Across original had "Anthropologists's"; corrected it to "Anthropologist's."
Grid entry for 127-Across is "OH SAY" but should be "O SAY"; couldn't fix this.
Original 32-Down clue had two long underscores, one for each word in the entry; removed one.
Original 77-Across had "physisian"; corrected this to "physician."
The same clue, [Smooth-talking.], was erroneously printed for both 6-Across (GLIB) and 6-Down (GRATE). Changed the GRATE clue to [Fireplace.], which was a common GRATE clue in the Farrar era.
Changed the 74-Across clue from [Does a blacksmith's job.] to [Did a blacksmith's job.] for consistency with the answer, UNSHOED.
First four clues in original PDF were illegible, but found the same puzzle in a book, and the clues for 1-, 6-, 10-, and 14-Across are from that. Clues (and entries) in books weren't always the same as in the original, and in this case the clue for 1-Across in the original did seem to have "Colloq." at the end of it. But the book clue was simply "Magnate."
The original 39-Down clue was ["When you ___ a tulip ... "]. Removed the "a" for consistency with the answer, WORE A.
"Colloq." was lowercased in original 1-Across clue; capitalized it.
Original 5-Down clue didn't have a hyphen before "frutti"; added it.
Original 19-Across clue had "rythms"; corrected it to "rhythms."
Original was faint in parts, so added the following: a comma after "Figuratively" in 1-Across; long underscore after "Grand" in 18-Across.
In original, 65-Across clue was listed as the 56-Across clue, and 67-Across clue was listed as the 65-Across clue; fixed these.
Original was faint in parts, and clues for 2-, 7-, 8-, and 32-Down seemed like they needed underscores in them, so added these.
62-Across clue originally had "across"; capitalized it.
Original 21-Down clue read [Is lacking.]. Changed to [Be lacking.].
Original 4-Down clue did not have a hyphen before "Korsakov"; added it.
Original 54-Across clue had "S.M.U.s"; corrected it to "S.M.U.'s."
Original number of ounces in 66-Across clue was unclear; should be 1/16, so made it that.
80-Down clue originally had "Kit-cat"; corrected it to "Kit-Cat."
45-Down clue, "Tip on a finial," had additional smudged print on original after "finial." Unable to decipher this, so left clue as "Tip on a finial."
Original 27-Down clue had an umlaut over the "o" in "Brontës"; corrected this by putting it over the "e."
18-Across clue had "Earthern"; left it that way, because that could have been what was meant.
Original clue for 17-Across had "chemists'"; corrected this to "chemist's."
The New York Times printed a different solution to the middle section of this puzzle: 34-Across MEETS, 37-Across MIRES, and 39-Across CAN IT. My theory is that Margaret Farrar edited out CAN IT at the last minute, perhaps because she thought it was too rude. CAN IT didn't debut in The Times for another 20 years.
Original grid had a T at the 96-Across/79-Down crossing; changed this to an S.
Original 31-Across clue had "Unmelodius"; corrected this to "Unmelodious."
Original 1-Across clue had "Pharoah"; corrected this to "Pharaoh."
Original 2-Down clue had "Colisonnés"; corrected this to "Cloisonnés."
Original clue for 37-Across had two "on"s; deleted one of them.
Original clue for 19-Across had "humming bird"; corrected this to "hummingbird."
Original clue for 33-Across had "continent" twice; deleted one of them.
Original clue for 83-Down had "Madison Ave's. customers." Corrected this to "Madison Ave.'s customers."
Original clue for 30-Across had "Rimsky Korsakov"; corrected this to "Rimsky-Korsakov."
The area of a baseball diamond (57-Down) is 8,100 sq. ft., yet the 180 sq. ft. measure appears in several AREA clues from this time. It's a bit of a mystery.
Note that the "p" in "Nobel prize" (17-Across) was lowercase in the actual puzzle.
Original had clues for 53- and 55-Down in reverse order; corrected this.
Number and part of 29-Across clue came between 1- and 5-Across clues; moved the number and part down to where the 29-Across clue was supposed to be. All that was there in the original was the remainder of the 29-Across clue, with no number. Fixed everything.
The NYT incorrectly printed the letter at the 45-Across/45-Down crossing as an E in the answer key. Changed to an F. Also, clue for 47-Across, "Vanity case." for ENTOUTCAS (which is French for "in any case") seems odd; did not change it.
No author or title on original, but found the same puzzle in a book with this author and title, so added them. Also, the NYT incorrectly printed the letter at the 71-Across/57-Down crossing as an E in the answer key. Changed to an A.
Original clue for 52-Across had "Mazzel"; corrected it to "Mazel."
No end quote in original clue for 46-Down; added it.
In the original 6-Down clue, "Stratagem" was spelled "Strategem"; corrected spelling.
In the original 13-Across clue, "medieval" was spelled "medevial"; corrected spelling.
In the original 57-Down clue, "Caribbean" was spelled "Carribbean"; corrected spelling.
In the original 27-Across clue, "Kit-Cat Club" was spelled "Kit-cat Club"; corrected spelling.
In the original 14-Across clue, "Bathsheba's" was spelled "Bath-sheba's"; corrected spelling.
In the original 23-Across clue, "Fauntleroy's" was spelled "Fauntelroy's"; corrected spelling.
The original clues for 18-Down and 55-Down were unclear. 18-Down looked like it could have been "Company for a Donut"; made it that. 55-Down seemed to have "&" as the first word, plus one letter after that. Made it "&c."—a clue for "Etc." in the 1/1/61 puzzle.
Original clue for 66-Across had A with a superscript 1. Could not do this in Across Lite, so made it A'.
Original clue for 47-Down had "Indian"; changed it to "India."
Solution to this puzzle had ILED for 24-Across but should have had ILES (and OVIS for 3-Down instead of OVID). Corrected this grid mistake.
Original clue for 24-Across had "Gettsyburg"; corrected it to "Gettysburg."
Original clue for 29-Across had "Haddocks's"; changed it to "Haddock's."
In the original, the last Across clue should have been numbered 59 but was 69; fixed this.
Original clue for 5-Down had "Soliders"; corrected this to "Soldiers."
In the original, the number and clue for 14-Down was listed below the number and clue for 15-Down; switched them to correct this.
Entry for 38-Across—NOVAS—was clued as "New stars." Although the name "nova" means "new," novas aren't new—they occur after a star becomes a neutron star, which happens rather late in a star's life.
The NYT incorrectly printed KENESAWMOUNTAIN in the answer key; the correct answer should have been KENNESAWMOUNTAIN. Unable to fix.
Entry for 36-Down—ENS—was clued as "Half picas, in printing." Picas are absolute sizes, whereas ens are relative sizes and depend on the type size used.
Original number and clue for 51-Down were buried in the middle of the 73-Down clue.
Original clue for 4-Down had "Diminuitive"; corrected it to "Diminutive."
The original clue for 35-Across was [Stable fare.], which suggests the answer OATS. OATS would conflict with the down answer SORRY, though, so I changed the clue to one that suggests the actual answer (RATS).
The NYT incorrectly printed the letter at the 49-Across/35-Down crossing as an M in the answer key. Changed to an N.
In the original clue for 39-Across, "Liège" had an acute accent over the first e; corrected this to make it grave.
Original clue for 11-Down had "Mischevous"; corrected this to "Mischievous."
The NYT incorrectly printed the letter at the 130-Across/123-Down crossing as an S in the answer key. Changed to an E and changed the original 123-Down clue, "Bug Spray," to one that was common at the time for DDE, "Presidential monogram."
Clue for 45-Across in PDF was "Philas Fogg, for one." Changed "Philas" to "Phileas."
Clue for 47-Across was "Marksman." Changed it to "Marksmen."
In clue for 2-Down, "buoyancy" was spelled "bouyancy" in the PDF. Corrected it.
Clue for 9-Down was "Illiadic herald." Changed it to "Iliadic herald."
The NYT incorrectly printed the letter at the 5-Across/5-Down crossing as an E in the answer key. Changed to a P.
Possible NYT factual error. A solver notes that Cabot was part of a "Company of Merchant Adventurers," but it wasn't that one. Cabot was born in 1474 and died in 1557. There was a "Company of Merchant Adventurers of London," which was founded in 1407. Starting in 1689, that company was informally referred to as the "Hamburg Company." Unclear how Cabot could have had any connection to that organization. Left clue as in the original, however.
Clue for 20-Across was "Cogito, Ergo ___." Changed it to "Cogito, ergo ___."
Second word of 3-Down clue for AMBERGRIS was illegible but had a straight vertical line and "base" fit, so made it "Perfume base." Also, clues 58-Down and 60-Down were not in correct order in PDF; changed them to make correct.
This puzzle was titled "Full of Facts" when reprinted in a book, which is ironic because Anna Gram is a pseudonym!
Entries for 55-Across and 55-Down were incorrect (WASTES/WARD); corrected them to BASTES/BARD. Also, entries for 80-Across and 69-Down were incorrect (ACHE/GLUE); corrected them to ACHT/GLUT.
When this puzzle ran, Hawaii had been a state for nearly 3 years, so the 64-Across clue is erroneous.
Clue for 63-Across was "___ Shah Pahl-lavi." Corrected it to "___ Shah Pahlavi."
Entry for 22-Across ("Robert E. Lee's horse.") was TRAVELER but should have been TRAVELLER.
Clue for 58-Down (ALE) looked like "Brown October" and was clearly unfinished. Inserted a blank at the end, since quote is likely referring to the song "Brown October Ale."
Clue for 33-Down had two "with"s. Eliminated one of them.
56-Across clue had "Certain" capitalized in original; assumed this was an error and changed it.
Entry for 8-Down (OPRY) was clued as "Grand Old ___." Corrected it to "Grand Ole ___."
A solver questioned the NYT's original 57-Across clue, "Expression of assent.," for UHUH, noting that this was the only appearance of the answer UHUH in a pre-Shortz puzzle, though it has appeared 39 times in Shortz-era puzzles, always clued as "Nope," "No way," or some variant. UHHUH, however, has appeared 27 times (4 times pre-Shortz) and has always been clued as an affirmative. Assumed the 57-Across clue was a NYT mistake and changed "assent" to "dissent."
Solution to this puzzle was missing from paper and was solution for 12/7/62 puzzle instead.
Solution to this puzzle was not in the paper.
This puzzle actually appeared on Saturday, December 15, 1962, but originally may have been intended for Sunday and run early because of the strike. Assumed this was the case and dated it December 16, 1962. No puzzle or solution was in the 12/16/62 paper because of the strike.
Clue for 1-Across had "Sign" instead of "sign"; corrected this. Also, unlike most puzzles of this time, the puzzle did not have periods after the clues. Left them out.
For 37-Across, the number and part of the clue were missing—all that was there was: weary?" Added: "___ thou (to make it "___ thou weary?").
Puzzle had no periods after clues, so left them out.
Clue for 32-Across was missing close quote and had two blanks instead of one. Added close quote and deleted one blank. Also, clue for 27-Down was listed between 31-Down and 33-Down and included part of clue for 31-Down. Fixed all of this. Finally, some clues in this puzzle had periods, but others didn't. Added periods to clues without them for uniformity.
Clues for 40-Across and 52-Across were missing close quotes. Added them. Also, there was no clue for 32-Down (WORSE), so put one in ("Not as good.").
Number and clue for 23-Down were missing. 21-Down had two clues stuck together ("Singular traveled in a certain vehicle")—should have been "Singer" (not "Singular" plus the rest) for 21-Down and "Traveled in a certain vehicle" for 23-Down. The latter was the missing clue for 23-Down. 39-Down was misnumbered 38-Down. Number and clue for 38-Down were missing. Added "Irritating." as the clue for 38-Down. Also, added periods to all the clues that were missing them.
Puzzle and solution were from a book. No paper appears to have been published on 12/25/62.
Clue for 11-Down had "pribilof"; changed it to "Pribilof."
Clue for 22-Down, ERNS, was missing. Added clue: "Sea birds."
Added umlaut to "Brontës" in 61-Down clue.
Original 40-Across clue was "___ seqitur." Changed it to "___ sequitur." Original 47-Across clue for MATES was "Certain seaman." Changed it to "Certain seamen." Original 59-Down clue for GCD was truncated to "Abbreviation in." Changed it to "Abbreviation in arithmetic."
28-Across clue "Theatrical streak" clue for HAM seems odd. One litzer suggested that "steak" might have been meant instead. Unlike most other puzzles of this era, this one did not include periods after the clues, so they were left out.
Unlike most other puzzles of this era, this puzzle did not include periods after the clues, so they were left out.
Solution PDF had TOME instead of GONE, which fit the clues. Changed TOME to GONE. Perhaps the editor was trying to eliminate the duplication of GO in ONGO and GONE.
Solution PDF had ODAS, ALPS, and DEAN instead of ONIT, MINT, and ETON, as the clues suggest. Changed the grid. 14-Across clue was "Military Acronym." Changed it to "Military acronym." 65-Across clue was "Vicuna's habitat." Added the tilde above the "n."
Clue for 32-Across, DELE, was "Printer's sing." Changed it to "Printer's sign."
Clue for 43-Down, WHIGS, was "Zachary Taylor." Changed it to "Zachary Taylor's party."
Clue for 42-Down was "Red cloth used by fullfighters." Changed it to "Red cloth used by bullfighters."
The clue for 30-Across was listed twice in the print version.
The clue for 8-Down was "Most famous of the Gorgon's." Changed it to "Most famous of the Gorgons."
There was no clue or number for 28-Down, DERIDES, in the print version. Added clue: "Mocks."
The clue for 48-Down was "Skiiers's playgrounds." Changed it to "Skiers' playgrounds."
The clue for 26-Down was "Po tributary. tary." Removed the extra "tary." The clue for 40-Down was "Everglades Indian. aide." Removed the "aide" and added it to the end of the clue for 43-Down, which was "Bookmaking" and is now "Bookmaking aide."
Clue for 21-Across was "___ francaise." Added the cedilla to the "c." Clue for 30-Down was "Where maitres teach." Added the circumflex to the "i."
PDF solution to this puzzle was incorrect — it was actually the solution to the 2/7/63 puzzle. The solution to this puzzle was incorrectly listed as the solution to the 2/22/63 puzzle.
Puzzle and solution in paper completely wrong. Solution was to 2/21/63 puzzle, and puzzle was the 2/8/63 puzzle.
The book from which this puzzle came presented the puzzles in mostly sequential order, and this one was sandwiched in between the ones that actually ran in the paper on days preceding and following 2/22/63. There was no record of this puzzle anywhere in the PDFs or the PSPP records, so this puzzle by Charles E. Gersch was almost certainly published on that date.
Clue for 13-Across, HONEYBEE, was "What 'desert' means." This was probably supposed to be "What 'Deseret' means." Made that change. Clue for 43-Down was "Makes eye (at)." Changed to "Makes eyes (at)."
The clue for 46-Across was the same as its answer! Replaced the 46-Across clue with a common clue from the pre-Shortz era.
No solution in paper; solution from a book and matches grid and first few clues.
Clue for 32-Across was "Lady in the 'Faerie Queene.'" This should be "Lady in 'The Faerie Queene'" but was not changed.
Error in the solution PDF—the crossing of 27-Across and 14-Down was supposed to be an E rather than an A. Made this change.
Clue for 49-Down was missing. Added clue: "Tres ___." In keeping with the style of most puzzles then, did not put the accent over the "e."
Original grid had an H at the 14-Across/17-Down crossing; changed it to a T.
Clue for 27-Down was "Lewis Carrol creature." Changed it to "Lewis Carroll creature." Clue for 34-Down is correct per the PDF, though it seems like it ought to have been "Mars prefix." Clue for 49-Down was "Perserving solution." Changed it to "Preserving solution."
In the solution grid, 55-Down and 68-Across had a "D" that should have been an "M." Made the correction.
Some of the rightmost Across clues and the Down clues beneath them in the PDF were cut off but were inferable.
A solver notes that the 61-Across answer, VOA, should not have been clued as a "Well-known radio station," pointing out that VOA is not a station but rather an agency, organization, outfit, or group. Left clue as in the original.
Clue for 15-Across, IN LAW, was "Mother: ___." Changed this to "Mother-___."
Clue for 31-Down was "Brainstorms, for for example." Removed the extra "for."
Last word of clue for 33-Across, RAH, was illegible — "Exclamation of [?]" Changed it to "Exclamation of approval."
Clue for 11-Down was listed out of order, between clues for 13-Down and 18-Down. Clue for 59-Down, TOV, was "Mazzel ___." Changed it to "Mazel ___."
Solution grid had error at 63-Across. Clue was "Utopian." and solution had PARASITIC. Affected crossings, 52-Down and 64-Down, were clued for PARADISIC to be the correct word there. Made this change.
PDF had a grid error — the letter in the 12-Down/64-Across crossing should have been an S instead of a D. Made this correction.
The NYT incorrectly had a singular clue ("Senior member.") for DOYENS at 107-Across. Changed to "Senior members." Also, the NYT incorrectly had a plural clue ("Family members.") for MOM at 110-Across. Changed to "Family member."
Clue for 43-Down was "Chile con ___." Changed it to "Chili con ___."
Clue for 3-Down was "Novice skiier." Changed it to "Novice skier."
Clue for 4-Down, I MY, was "'Am ___ my brother's keeper?'" Changed it to "'Am ___ brother's keeper?'"
Clue for 69-Across was "How jurors get payed." Changed it to "How jurors get paid."
Original entry for 9-Down was incorrect: LIGTH UP. It couldn't be corrected, though, because the two crosses are correct with the error in place.
Unclear whether clue for 15-Across — "First principals." — is an intentional pun or the common principle/principal mistake. The 23-Across clue has an intentional pun, so that seems possible.
Original solution had an error at 85-Across/66-Down (GOO instead of MOO); fixed it.
The stepquote reads, "Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers."
Original 1-Down clue was "Demonination: Abbr."; seemed like it should be "Denomination" (as in Christian denomination for Methodist), so changed it.
Clue for 47-Down is likely a mistake and probably should read "Tin Pan Alley group."
42-Down entry is BEDLOE, but it should have been BEDLOES, since the correct name was Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island).
Original clue for 54-Down was missing, so added one (a one-word clue, like many in this puzzle).
Original solution had 3 grid mistakes: ONION (instead of ADIOS) at 27-Across, DTD (instead of DND) at 33-Across, and LIFERS (instead of LIVERS) at 57-Across. Fixed all these.
(Note that the clues for the entries were correct in the original—just not the entries themselves.)
Solution PDF had a mistake in 49-Across — the second letter was supposed to be an E but wasn't; fixed it.
Original 15-Across should have read "Put-in-Bay."
In 31-Across, "Sylvia" is usually spelled "Silvia."
Original 30-Down clue had incorrect accent over "Molière"; fixed it.
The stepquote reads, "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted as wise."
Bernice Gorden is often credited with inventing the crossword rebus (this is her first) but there were predecessors in the 1950s.
The stepquote reads, "I'm not a politician, and my other habits are good."
The 55-Across clue is erroneous: Columbus's last journey was in 1502, which would be MDII in Roman numerals as opposed to MLII
Original 35-Down clue had "letter"; someone wrote in the "s" by hand. Changed clue to have "letters."
Original 18-Across clue had "ponoun"; corrected it to "pronoun." Original 6-Down clue had "Gardenn"; corrected it to "Garden."
Some clues were jumbled in the original; fixed them.
Original had jumbled clue lines at 55- to 58-Across and duplication of clue fragment from 4-Down; fixed this.
Original 48-Across clue had "Musical's"; changed it to "Musial's."
Original had no clue for 11-Down, so added one.
The stepquote reads, "Great things are done when men and mountains meet."
In original, "colony" from 68-Across clue was on the line before; fixed this.
The NYT incorrectly printed the letter at the 101-Across/81-Down crossing as an B in the answer key. Changed to an S.
Original 26-Across clue had "Talf"; corrected it to "Talk."
The solution PDF incorrectly listed the letter at the intersection of 19-Across/10-Down as a T; corrected it to a J.
Original 13-Down had "Frankfort's"; changed it to "Frankfurt's."
In 63-Across, Entebbe is clued as the capital of UGANDA, but by the time Uganda became an independent nation in 1962 (4 years before this puzzle was published), the capital had already moved to Kampala.
Original had a grid mistake: E instead of U in 79-Across answer (NESSES instead of NESSUS). Fixed this.
There were two 65-Across clues listed one right after the other in the original. One had "Torn," and the other had "Let"; either can elicit the answer RENT. Chose "Torn."
Original was missing the clue for 10-Across. Looked like there could have been an underscore, so went with "___-yourself." (a clue Margaret had used).
Original 43-Down clue had "Ukranian"; corrected it to "Ukrainian."
Original solution for 103-Across had ODE instead of CODE. There was an extra block where the C should be. Fixed this.
The stepquote reads, "Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?"
The NYT incorrectly printed 127-Across as MOORS in the answer key. Changed to COOTS. Perhaps Margaret Farrar changed MOORS to COOTS at the last minute.
The solution PDF contained an error at 105-Across/88-Down: The letter at that square is supposed to be an I, not a T.
Original 15-Across clue had "Apochryphal"; corrected it to "Apocryphal."
Original had printing problems with the clue for 86-Across — part of the clue was cut off ("Namesakes o . . . Italian queen . . ."); this was the best guess as to what it was. The same was true of the clue for 88-Across ("John O'Neele . . . a potherb.").
Error in original PDF solution at 65-Across — said "PLAY" but should have been "PRAY." Corrected this.
Original clue for 113-Across had two "in"s ("in in a way"); deleted one of them.
Errors in original PDF solution — 1-Down had COOF instead of COOT, and 19-Across had FALL instead of TALL. Corrected these.
The stepquote reads, "Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
Clue for 7-Down has factual mistake — an axon is a nerve-cell part, not a nerve-cell process. Did not change this.
The title in the original is "Moment Musical," so title here is not a mistake.
The following note originally appeared under the byline:
(Featuring a quotation reading diagonally, top-left to bottom-right, from Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life.")
The slide-quote reads, "Learn to labor and to wait."
The solution PDF contained an error: The letter at 114-Across/98-Down is supposed to be an O, not an E. Fixed this.
Error in the original PDF solution grid, which was asymmetric at 35-Across, though the actual puzzle was symmetrical. Fixed this.
Many missing periods at ends of clues in original; added them. Missing ellipsis in original clue for 97-Across; added it. Replaced period with colon in original clues for 112- and 140-Across; added colons in 9- and 37-Down; left clue for 98-Across as it was rather than change it to "Tsk-tsk!" — seemed to be onomatopoeic spelling of actual clucking noise and was also clearly the clue; changed punctuation of 101-Across; changed 64-Down "Regions Abb" to "Regions: Abbr."; added umlaut over "o" in "Köln"; added period to "Atl" in 70-Down.
In 17-Across, changed "Home" to "home."
Original solution grid had JANE/JUGER at 32-Across/32-Down; corrected this to LANE/LUGER.
9-Down is misspelled.
Original 77-Across clue had "at five." at end for the entry "RISE AT"; removed the "at" in the clue.
Original 33-Across clue, "Diva Lucretia.", is incorrect — it should be "Diva Lucrezia." Left it as was.
Clue was 18-Across is incorrect — the Braves were in Atlanta by 1968. Left clue as it was.
50-Across clue may be incorrect — LARS appears to be just a name that happened to be used by some kings.
This is the first double pangram published in the NYT.
The stepquote reads, "The achievement of justice is an endless process."
Clue for 39-Down entry, "TOO DARK," is "Overexposed." This probably should have been "Underexposed." Left it as it was.
Original solution grid had mistake at 87-Across: ADEPT instead of A DEBT; changed it.
Original solution grid had DANGLES at 61-Across instead of DANGLED; changed it.
Original clue for 89-Across had "narwahl"; corrected it to "narwhal."
The stepquote reads, "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
Original 30-Down clue had "Shakespearian"; changed it to "Shakespearean."
Original 7-Down clue had "Shakespearian"; changed it to "Shakespearean."
Original 49-Across clue had "Shakespearian"; changed it to "Shakespearean."
The stepquote reads, "The man who can make hard things easy is the educator."
Original clue for 13-Down had "Field's"; changed it to "Fields's."
Original clue for 19-Down had "Crys"; corrected it to "Cries." Original clues for 21- and 25-Down were in reverse order; corrected this.
Original clues for 130- and 134-Across, and for 41-, 62-, 90-, and 107-Down, did not have question marks at the ends of them; added question marks.
Original solution grid had TWIG at 98-Across instead of SWIG; corrected this.
Original solution grid had BOOKNORMS at 35-Down instead of BOOKWORMS and BARTON at 55-Across instead of BARTOW; made corrections.
Original solution grid had AZA at 40-Across; corrected this to ANA. Original clue for 120-Across had "Aint"; changed this to "Ain't."
Original clue for 48-Down had "philosophy" added to it instead of to the end of 49-Down; corrected this.
Note that the I in 24-Across is actually a 1 in both directions, unlike several other one-directional 1s.
Original solution grid had DDT at 37-Across instead of DDE; corrected this.
Original solution grid had SANDE at 55-Across instead of SANDS and AREE at 43-Down instead of ARES; corrected this.
Original 72-Down clue had "chair" instead of "cheer"; fixed this.
Original 9-Down clue had "Field's"; changed this to "Fields's."
Original clue for 41-Across had "Washington on gallery"; corrected this to "Washington gallery." Original clue for 9-Down had "Roulete"; corrected this to "Roulette." Original clue for 11-Down had "Shakespearian"; changed this to "Shakespearean."
Original 41-Across clue had "Advantage"; changed to "advantage." Original 6-Down clue had "Bomb"; changed to "bomb." Original 21-Down clue had "The"; changed to "the." Original 45-Down clue had "Cake"; changed to "-cake."
Original 41-Down clue had "The"; changed it to "the." Original 62-Down had "Sat."; changed it to "Lat."
Original 32-Down clue had "Daskboard"; corrected this to "Dashboard." Also, original 10-Down clue had "rule"; corrected this to "mule."
Original 44-Down clue had "flavor ring"; changed to "flavoring."
Original 71-Across clue had "is"; changed to "Is."
The stepquote reads, "Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament."
See Joseph LaFauci's biography for details on the Jennie Lemmo connection.
Original 49-Down clue had "lunn"; changed to "Lunn."
Original 11-Down clue had "Alleghany"; corrected to "Allegheny."
Original 21-Across clue had "Soh"; changed to "Soho."
Entry for 42-Across is ERL, but "erlkonig" is one word; left as it was.
Clue for 32-Across has "Orfant," but this should be "Orphant." Left as it was.
Original solution grid for 122-Across/98-Down crossing had the last letter as a black square instead of an S; corrected this.
The stepquote reads, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Clue for 6-Down is as it appeared in the original but probably should have been "Mexican crabs" instead, since ARANAS means spiders in Spanish and can also refer to spider crabs. Clue probably should have ended with a question mark too, but left it as it was.
Original solution grid had DIB and BATES at 1-Down/16-Across; corrected this to DID and DATES.
Clue for 65-Down is as it appeared in the original, though the "to" shouldn't be there, since the answer is YEARS TO.
Original solution grid had ELONGATED at 29-Across and DAY SO at 32-Down; corrected these to ELONGATES and SAY SO, respectively.
Original 26-Down clue was "Hiding place" (probably because LIAR was confused with LAIR); replaced this clue with "Perjurer" (to go along with the LIAR entry).
Entry for 27-Down, FANNY, is incorrect and can't be changed to what it should be (FANNIE, since 1938).
The 29-Down clue is mentioned in Will Weng's obituary: On one occasion, a puzzle he edited described Nick Etten, a competent but rather obscure first baseman, as a "Yankee Great." To call such a person a "Yankee Great" in New York is a dangerous business and there were letters to Mr. Weng asking how dare he put Mr. Etten in the same dugout with Joe DiMaggio. "Some unsympathetic solvers suggested I was the type of person who could be expected to define Marv Throneberry as a Met Great," he wrote. "Or Marion Davies as a memorable star."
Clue for 111-Down is as it appeared in original, but the actual quote from the movie "Casablanca" is "Play it, Sam."
Original 134-Down clue had "Castle"; changed to "Caste."
Original 15-Across clue had "Roger's"; corrected this to "Rogers's."
Clue for 52-Down is as it appeared, but "'What's My Line'" should be "'What's My Line?'"
Clue for 9-Down is as it appeared, but "millenium" should have been spelled "millennium."
The stepquote reads, "There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
Entry for 64-Across, ESER, may have been a mistake — constructor may have meant ESUS.
Clue for 5-Down is as it appeared, with "Zeider," but this should have been "Zuider."
Clue for 39-Across is as it appeared, with "Triste," but this should have been "Trieste."
The published byline is a misprint. The correct constructor name is Tanaquil Le Clercq as shown here.
Clue for 70-Across is as it appeared, with "untouchable," but this should have been "Untouchable."
Clue for 9-Down is as it appeared, but "language" should have been "languages" — Kiowa-Tanoan is a family of languages.
Clue for 31-Down is as it appeared, but "Fail" should have had an acute accent over the a.
Clue for 139-Across is as it appeared, but "marbles" should be "Marbles." Clue for 5-Down is as it appeared, but "'woes'" should be "'woe.'"
Clue for 30-Down is as it appeared, though it should be "Estonian county"; the (big) island is Saaremaa.
Clue for 11-Down is as it appeared, but "1969-68" should be "1969, 68."
Clue for 7-Down is as it appeared, but "mice" should be "mouse," and "on the clock" would have been more accurate than "to the clock."
Clue for 49-Across is as it appeared, but "tardi" means "late" in Italian; "afternoon" is "pomeriggio."
Clue for 64-Across is as it appeared, but more correctly, Esau was the pottage client, and Jacob was the dealer.
Clue for 17-Across is as it appeared, but the word is spelled with an extra l: "tonsillitis." Clue for 8-Down is as it appeared, but "headware" is usually spelled "headwear."
Original solution had MIMIMUM at 69-Across; corrected this to MINIMUM.
Uncorrectable grid mistake at 7-Across—MURASKI should be MURASAKI.
Clue for 30-Down is as it appeared, but "Glueck" is incorrect and should have been "Gluck."
Original had mistakes in grid numbers; corrected this.
Original had ALIVE and TEVTH at 26-Across and 13-Down, respectively; corrected these to ALINE and TENTH.
Original 50-Down clue had "Offtimes"; corrected it to "Ofttimes."
Original 51-Across clue had "Ullman"; corrected this to "Ullmann."
Clue for 90-Across is as it appeared but may be a mistake — seems to be referring to Priscilla Mullins (not Mullens) of Longfellow's "The Courtship of Miles Standish."
Original 35-Across clue had "Tinkers"; corrected this to "Tinker."
Original had first line of 45-Down "Asian flower" clue duplicated after 73-Down; corrected this so the clues correctly match the grid.
Constructor's name was difficult to read; this is the best guess.
Constructor's name uncertain, but this is the best guess.
Original 65-Down clue had "Ullman"; corrected this to "Ullmann."
The stepquote reads, "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
Original 7-Down clue had "Pryne"; corrected this to "Prynne."
Original 7-Down clue had no accent over the first e in "Adorée"; added one.
Answer for 38-Across clue, AROO, seems to be a shortened form of "aroon," meaning "my darling" or the like.
Original clue for 66-Down had "Childrens'"; corrected this to "Children's."
Some of the O's in the puzzle are to be read as rebuses of NOTHING.
The published clue for 46-Down was "Binh ___, Vietnam." Since the answer is BINH, that was clearly wrong. It's been fixed up here.
Clue for 117-Down is as it appeared but may be a mistake — constructor likely intended it to be "Mrs. McKinley."
The grid position 97 is labeled 970, making the answer to 970 Down MISNUMBER.
In the clue for 19-Down, "UHF" may have been meant instead of "UFO."
Entry at 39-Across should perhaps have been SAGA, not AGA.
Clue for 118-Down as in original but should have been "Call ___ day."
Clue for 100-Down as in original but should have had an acute accent over the e in "Torme."
Clue for 43-Across is as in original, but SECT is the root word, and "inter" and "bi" are prefixes.
Constructor's name was hard to read; this is the best guess.
The constructor name was difficult to read — this is the best guess.
Constructor's name was hard to read; this is the best guess.
Original solution grid had ULM and ASARMM at 126-Across and 103-Down, respectively; corrected to ULU and ASARUM.
Original solution grid had LEADS and HERCULESNTASKS at 79-Across and 48-Down, respectively; corrected to LEAD A and HERCULEAN TASKS.
Constructor's name uncertain but best guess.
Clue for 12-Across is as in the original, with the letter O, not the number 0.
Entry for 58-Down, BLE, should perhaps have been ABLE or IBLE (suffixes).
Entry for 14-Across, CLE, may not be accurate. The diminutive ending is -culus (or -cule, -cula); the -cle is an English translation. "Carbuncle," for example, is derived from "carbunculus," with the whole word being converted to English.
Also, entry for 58-Down seems not quite accurate — should be £sd (with £ for pound, s being shillings, and d being pence).
Clue for 26-Down is as in original, but although Soho and Piccadilly are near each other, Soho isn't part of Piccadilly.
In original, clue for 45-Across appeared between two lines in the clue for 46-Across — "Salary," and "dividends, etc."
Constructor's name was hard to read; this is the best guess.
Clue for 55-Down was originally printed with a typo as "Ragwood senus"; this was corrected to "Ragwood genus"
Clue for 33-Down was originally "Les ___ Units"; this was corrected to "Les ___ Unis"
Clue for 14-Down (MAYO) has an error in the original, which was left as it was: "Actress Virginia Mayo"
Clue for 13-Down was originally "Commedia del'___"; this was changed to "Commedia dell'___"
The circled letters spell out: "Have more than thou showest. Speak less than thou knowest."
This is the first NYT crossword with circles.
Name in 54-Across should have been "Swee'Pea" instead of "SweePea"; error was left in.
Original puzzle had several errors, which were corrected: 51-Across was SOC (instead of SOO), 15-Down was OUR MAYCR (instead of OUR MAYOR), 151-Across was ELL (instead of EEL), and 103-Down was RIDE ON ICL (instead of RIDE ON ICE)
This bicentennial puzzle had the following quote above the puzzle: "Games lubricate the body and the mind." - Benjamin Franklin
This is the largest crossword in our database. See the other big ones here.
This constructor could be Thomas J. Higgins, who had a Simon & Schuster crossword published in the mid-1980s.
Clue for 69-Down was originally "Superbowl scores: Abbr." but should have been "Super Bowl scores: Abbr."; it was left as it was
Number for 86-Across clue was originally mislabeled as 85-Across; this was corrected
This puzzle was originally published under the name Mike Miller. To avoid confusion with another Mike Miller, we have changed the byline to read Michael W. Miller.
The constructor's name was difficult to read; this is the best guess.
The theme of this puzzle involves representing the word "first" with the letter "i" followed by "st"
46-Across: A morne is a ring attached to the lance, not the lance itself
In original, last word of clue for 40-Across was illegible; could be "cat" (as here).
This PDF shows how the puzzle looked in print.
Clue for 64-Down is as in original, but U.S.A. is actually a trilogy of novels.
This puzzle was originally published under the name Mike Miller. To avoid confusion with another Mike Miller, we have changed the byline to read Michael W. Miller.
Clue for 53-Down is as in original, but bracts are leaves, not petals.
Clue for 40-Across is as in original, but the Orbiting Geophysical Observatory is a set of six satellites, named OGO 1 through OGO 6.
Two flawed theme entries — should be "elephant grass" and "hens and chicks," not "elephants' grass" and "hens and chickens."
Grid mistake at 38-Across—should be BRET, not BRETT.
Error in 29-Down clue — Erra-Pater was the almanac's writer; left as in original.
This PDF shows how the puzzle looked in print.
Error in 83-Down clue — champleve isn't a kind of enamel, it's a method of working with enamel; left as in original.
Error in 58-Across clue — contralto is actually the lowest female voice; left as in original.
Error in 57-Across clue—a buckeye is a tree/shrub or butterfly, not a type of canoe; left as in original.
Error in 41-Down clue—the movie is actually "The Cocoanuts" (with an "a"); left as in original.
Error in 45-Down grid entry—the correct title is "To Autumn."
Error in 27-Down clue — should be "eighths"; left as in original.
Clue for 41-Down may be an error — looms are used to weave cloth, not spin yarn.
Error in 41-Down clue — cheddar cheese was originally British; left as in original.
Original missing an entire column of clues (14-Down through 38-Down); inserted clues are likely from a reprint of the puzzle in a book.
Error in 63-Across clue—liens aren't deals, they're legal claims on property. Maleska may have been thinking of "loans," not "liens," especially since this clue has been used for the former before. Left as in original.
In grid at 26-Down, DRIER should really be DRYER.
Error in 41-Across—quote is actually "ain't a fit night . . . "; left as in original.
Error in 22-Down clue — acute accent over "a" should be over the second "n" instead; left as in original.
Clue for 61-Down may be missing a word or two at the end — should be something like "Buddhist structures"; left as in original.
This constructor could be Ruth Brown, Mary Brown or Lucia T. Brown.
Error in 53-Across clue — "Bachrach" should be "Bacharach"; left as in original.
In 81-Down clue, reference is likely to Kiri Te Kanawa, not another soprano Natalia Kawana — this is probably an error; left as in original.
Error in 23-Across clue — should be "Rosewall"; left as in the original.
In 53-Across clue, "Former bird" would be more accurate, since the bird became extinct in 1907; left as in the original.
Possible error in 52-Across clue — Atalante does not seem to be an arm of the Aegean Sea, though the Atalante basin may be a "very salty 'lake' at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea," according to Wikipedia.
Clue for 3-Down may have an error — should be "Caliban," not "Calydon"
Clue for 1-Across has an error — estimates of the total number of people who have ever lived are closer to 108 billion, even 37 years after this puzzle was published; left as in the original.
Clue for 14-Across missing hyphen after underscore; left as in the original.
Clue for 34-Across has an error: Snoopy himself wasn't the Red Baron — he fought the Red Baron; left as in the original.
Errors in 31-Down clue, which is an inaccurate popular legend, and 60-Down clue, where "Silvia" should be "Sylvia"; left both as in the original.
The quote is, "A jackass can kick a barn down but it takes a carpenter to build one." Clue for 36-Across should be "Topgallant" (one word); left as in the original.
Regarding the 23-Across clue, the 1960 Nobelist in Literature was Saint-John Perse, which was actually a nom de plume for Alexis Leger, who also used the name Saint-Leger as a kind of pseudonym; left as in the original.
Clue for 30-Down should have "points," not "point"; left as in original.
Original was missing clue for 41-Down; added one, but it's not whatever the constructor originally wrote.
Many clues cannot be represented accurately in Crossword Compiler or Across Lite. This PDF shows how the puzzle looked in print. Note that the clue for 34 Across has no number in the PDF.
Original solution to puzzle was missing, so puzzle was solved by litzer.
Tense of clue for 8-Down doesn't correspond to tense of entry (should be "Made," not "Make"), but left as in original.
This constructor could be D.K. Russell, whose byline appeared in a Maleska-edited crossword book from 1981.
44-Down clue is inaccurate — Steely Dan wasn't a singer but a group with two founding members and half a dozen revolving members; left as in original.
Clue for 17-Across is inaccurate — it's Eros's twin brother, Anteros, who's depicted; left as in original.
Original 17-Across clue had "Lane"; changed to "Laine."
Regarding the 19-Down clue, the full title of Sterne's work is "A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy."
In 60-Across clue, "Domesticated" may have been meant instead of "Domestic"; the Rouen duck, as its name suggests, originated in France.
Clue for 57-Down is correct but tricky — Nero didn't play the violin, which hadn't been invented yet, but was a fiddler in the sense of being a swindler and was fairly famous for it.
Clue for 34-Down, assuming New Zealand is what was meant, is incorrect—it's not an island but composed of two large islands and many smaller ones, Stewart Island being the largest in area, and Waiheke having the largest population. Clue for 50-Down seems incorrect—Alaska's area is 663,268 sq. mi. and probably hasn't changed since 1979.
Clues for 24-Across, 4-Down, and 30-Down were illegible in the original; substituted in other clues, which probably aren't what the constructor originally wrote.
In 52-Down clue, although the Tennessee Valley may be (largely) in Tennessee, Sen. George W. Norris, who created the TVA, was a senator from Nebraska.
Clue for 26-Down isn't quite accurate—a scute is a bony plate found on some reptiles and thus covers only a fairly small part of a reptile.
"Pusilanimous" in 37-Down clue is misspelled—should be "Pusillanimous"; left as in the original.
In 10-Down, the film's title should actually be "The Driver"; left as in the original.
Clue for 50-Down should actually have "'There is'" instead of "'There's'"; left as in the original.
The stepquote reads, "For labor, a short day is better than a short dollar."
Clue for 19-Down was missing in the original, so put one in; it's probably not what the constructor originally wrote.
Regarding 43-Across clue, mandrills are generally classified as monkeys, not apes; left as in the original.
Clue for 46-Across is inaccurate — when Patty Duke was married to John Astin, she went by "Patty Duke Astin"; left as in the original.
In 54-Across clue, "Gun Smoke" should be "Gunsmoke"; left as in the original.
In Maleska's logbook, Jack L. Steinhardt is listed as the constructor, but Bernice Gordon listed this puzzle as hers in her record.
Clue for 1-Across isn't quite accurate—duals are multiple solutions to a problem, not multiple problems.
In original solution, the "R" in 48-Across entry was backwards, like a Cyrillic "Я."
Original 18-Down clue had "Lets"; changed to "Let's."
Original 34-Down clue had an apostrophe before the end quote; removed it.
Part of clues for 57- and 62-Down appear to have been cut off in the original—the former had "pon" instead of "pony," and the latter had "Proofreade" instead of "Proofreader's"; made the corrections.
Original 52-Down clue had acute accent over second n in "Poznan"; this could not be done in Crossword Compiler.
You need to view this PDF file to make sense of some of the theme clues.
Last word of original 35-Down clue was cut off on PDF, with the tops of the letters barely visible. Word appeared to be 4 or 5 letters ending in "it," so it was likely "merit"; used that.
Clue for 36-Across should have begun with "Slip Slidin'," not "Sliding"; left as in the original.
Entry for 44-Down is incorrect—plural should be CITTA, not CITTE; left as in the original.
In 33-Down clue, "O'Keeffe" should have been "O'Keefe"; left as in the original.
47-Across clue is inaccurate: Elmer Fudd didn't lisp—he substituted "w" for "r" or "l"; left as in the original.
In 57-Down clue, "Feeling" should be "Feelings"; left as in the original.
In 69-Across clue, "Qumram" should probably be "Qumran"; left as in the original.
The stepquote reads, "The fashion wears out more apparel than the man."
In 49-Down clue, "Jeanie" should be "Jeannie"; left as in the original.
In 72-Down clue, "Moranville" should probably be "Maranville" (as in baseball Hall of Famer Rabbit Maranville); left as in the original.
Original litzer note: "Taken from NYT Magazine (2/16/1992) 50 Years of Crossword Puzzles. A puzzle that shows how far the Times crossword has traveled from its staid beginnings. Described as a nightmare for typesetters because of the unorthodox clues."
In 17-Across clue, "Willow" should be "Willows"; left as in the original.
Regarding the 30-Down clue, Gambrinus may or may not have been a real monarch. If actual, he definitely didn't invent brewing (which may date to ancient Egypt). In legend, it's said that he learned the craft of brewing from Isis.
The stepquote reads, "Lord, make me wiser every year and better every day."
In 28-Across, the word should be "kattanker," with no hyphen; left as in the original.
NYT grid mistake in 34-Across—entry should be LAMARR, not LAMAR; could not fix.
In 10-Across clue, "Bradshaw" may have been meant instead of "Bradford"; left as in the original.
Regarding the 46-Across clue, the actual name is "Scafell Pike," though apparently there is a nearby peak named "Sca Fell."
Ten theme answers turn corners. See, for example, 1 Down.
Clue for 44-Across may be incorrect—Esh Sham seems to refer to Damascus, not to Syria as a whole.
In 15-Across clue, "Charlie" should be "Charley"; left as in the original.
In 101-Across clue, "dr." is the way it appeared in the original.
NYT mistake in 65-Across entry, which should be ERIK (not ERIC); could not fix.
Clue for 43-Down isn't quite accurate, since pikas are actually lagomorphs (related to hares and rabbits), not rodents; left as in the original.
Regarding the 112-Across entry, ELEMI, the much more common spelling is ELEME; left as in the original.
Clue for 40-Down has "Caesar's," but there shouldn't be an apostrophe; left as in the original.
Clue for 29-Across has "Marrayat," which should be "Marryat"; left as in the original.
The split stepquote reads, "Cheers to good health, happiness and wealth."
Puzzle title in original is "AlphaBetiC Clans," providing a case-sensitive clue to the puzzle's theme; changed to all caps for XWord Info, though.
Regarding the 38-Across clue, supers maintain buildings—they don't just clean them.
In 6-Down clue, there should probably be an "at" after "gander"; left as in the original.
This is apparently how the puzzle ran in print but the title and theme only make sense if the long answers run Down rather than Across.
The constructor could be Robert H. Anderson, who appeared in a Simon & Schuster crossword collection in 1989.
Regarding 32-Across clue, also Syria, located in Asia.
In 12-Across clue, "Sophie Faninal" should be "Sophie von Faninal"; left as in the original. In 34-Across, "The" should be "A"; left as in the original.
Regarding the 53-Across clue, the draft was abolished more than a decade before this puzzle was published.
Clue for 49-Across appears to have an acute accent over the "e" in "Re"; left it as in the original.
In 34-Down clue, "parisienne" was not capitalized; left it as in the original.
In 44-Across, PAGET is actually a parish on the island of Bermuda; left as in the original. In 62-Across, DHONI is actually of the Maldives; left as in the original.
Regarding the 43-Across clue, although a two-step can be done in polka time (2/4), nearly all are done in 4/4 time. Regarding the 28-Down clue, a lulu is something or someone remarkable or wonderful, which might make this clue puzzling—but The Andrews Sisters had a song called "Don't Bring Lulu," which is doubtless what the clue was referring to.
Regarding 49-Down clue, the actual title is "There's No Business Like Show Business"—may have been shortened here to save column space; left as in the original. This puzzle was a tribute to Irving Berlin, who was born May 11, 1888, and was still alive in 1985.
Regarding 69-Across clue, "des Prés" is far more commonly written as "des Prez," including by the composer himself; left as in the original.
The constructor could be Patricia Bitonti, who appears in a Simon & Schuster crossword book from the '80s.
The title and constructor for this puzzle were incorrect in the original and listed as "Age 35: Aaugh!" and "Bert Rosenfield," respectively—these were actually the title and constructor of the 9/29/85 puzzle, which was about the comic strip "Peanuts" in honor of its 35th anniversary; corrected the 8/4/85 title and constructor.
Regarding the 36-Down clue, the comic strip was always called "Little Orphan Annie," except during its last decades, after the 1983 movie came lout, when the daily strip was often titled simply "Annie." The Sunday strip continued to be titled "Little Orphan Annie," with "Little Orphan" in much smaller text than "Annie." There was never a strip titled "Orphan Annie," but left this clue as in the original.
Regarding the 7-Down clue, Henry Thomas Rainey was Speaker of the House from March 9, 1933, until his death on August 19, 1934. Maleska may have had a reference book that listed the dates when each new Speaker took office. Since the next Speaker, Joseph W. Byrns, was sworn in on January 3, 1935, Maleska may have (incorrectly) assumed that Rainey was the Speaker up until that date. Left the incorrect clue as in the original, however.
In 14-Across clue, "Lyna" should be "Łyna"; left as in the original. Regarding the 30-Down clue, this was really just in crosswords.
*This puzzle was described in the New York Times Magazine's 50 Years of Crossword Puzzles article (published on February 16, 1992) as "What an origami swan is to a folded paper airplane, this puzzle is to the average crossword."
*The 116-Down clue in the PDF did indeed read "___-go-brath." "___-go-bragh" is much more common, though the brath spelling does appear online.
*Theme explanation: A word within each theme answer has been replaced with its opposite. For example, the answer to the 34-Across clue is (GO)T, but "go" gets replaced with "come," making the final answer (COME)T.
Regarding the 65-Across clue, Valentina Tereshkova was actually the first spacewoman; left as in the original, though.
Regarding the 3-Down clue, "Anna Lucasta" was actually written by Philip Yordon, and O'Neill wrote "Anna Christie"; left as in the original, though.
Regarding the 41-Across clue, baronets aren't peers (nor are knights), but barons are; left as in the original, though.
Regarding the 56-Down clue, ratios are "3 to 2" and such—analogies are "A is to B as C is to D"; left as in the original.
Regarding the 7-Down clue, technically magnetos produce AC, and dynamos produce DC; left as in the original. Regarding the 27-Down clue, the actual title is "Nobody Else But Me"; left as in the original.
Regarding the 55-Across clue, the actual title is "Old Folks at Home"—the song mangles the words, with the "Suwannee River" as "Swanee Ribber"; left as in the original.
From Flip Koski:
The November 1, 1986 crossword by Maleska is a tribute puzzle, referring to the November 1, 1986 wedding of Maleska's daughter, Merryl, to Nathan Wilbur. The puzzle's references to the wedding include NATHAN, WILBUR, AMHERST (where the wedding took place), LOVE AND MARRIAGE, and NOVEMBER I. WILBUR is clued as "Pulitzer Prize writer: 1957," a reference to the groom's father, Richard Wilbur.
The PDF listed a single clue for 1- and 8-Across, which read: 1-8 Most popular TV game show, with "The"
Theme Explanation: Any number in a capitalized clue must be replaced by its corresponding answer in the grid. For example, the clue for 24-Across ASSOCIATES reads [99 LEAGUES]; the answer to 99-Down is COL, and replacing "99" with "COL" yields the intended clue, [COLLEAGUES].
The clue for 33-Down was cut off from the PDF, so a clue used in other pre-Shortzian puzzles was inserted.
This is the only Schrödinger puzzle from the pre-Shortz era. See the modern Schrödingers here.
Original clue for 51-Down has "Leslie"; this is likely a mistake and should be "Lesley."
HEIFITZ is misspelled--it should be HEIFETZ
Original clue for 40-Down had "Midwest"; corrected this.
Clue for 14-Across—BASEL—is "Swiss Canton," but Basel has been divided into two cantons since 1833. Clue for 67-Down—NOOSE—is "Springe," but the noose is only part of a springe.
In clue for 18-Across, pitcher's name should be "Warneke," not "Warnecke."
Clue for 17-Down (DSS) is "Sociologist's deg.", but couldn't find any examples of that; clue for 74-Down (TAKEORDER) is "Fast-food specialty," but perhaps editor was thinking of TAKEOUT
The original grid had some missing grid numbers. Here's a PDF of how it looked.
The 61 Down clue contains an error—it should have been written as "60 minutes, in Siena."
73-Down: A tchast is a Russian unit of dry capacity. A loof, also known as a lof, is equivalent to 592 tchasts.
The highlighted squares are presumably intended to represent the Æ and Œ ligatures as shown in the grid here. The published NYT answer grid showed them as normal AE and OE rebus entries.
You have to think twice to solve the theme answers. First, find a word that answers the clue. Second, find a meta clue that points to that answer. For example, at 97 Across, "Memorable humorous poet" could be NASH but for the answer, think twice, and enter ANTIQUE CAR.
Here's another. 36 Down, "Edward or Norman" points to LEAR so that would make the meta-answer REGAN'S FATHER.
The stepquote reads, "Have either a clear conscience or none at all."
In original solution, answer to 31-Across has the "O"s as "0"s, even though the down crossings call for "O"s. (The capital "I" and number "1" looked the same in the font they used.)
The original answer grid had pictures of pans rather than the word "pan" spelled out in each rebus square.
Four theme answers must be read backwards. April Fools!
PDF lists Caroline G. Fitzgerald as the constructor, but Barry Haldiman says the constructor was actually Richard Silvestri; change made
The stepquote reads, "The step is short from the sublime to the ridiculous."
The "0" rebus at 40 Down and 52 Across means AUGHT.
Four theme answers need to be read backwards.
Regarding the 42-Down clue, Marie Lafarge was an actual person found guilty of murdering her husband; Madame Defarge was a fictional character—and knitter—in Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities."
Perhaps Dickens named the fictitious Madame Defarge after the actual Madame Lafarge, but in any case, this clue seems to be a mistake; left it as in the original, though.
This PDF shows the puzzle as published.
The cryptogram answer is — Some outspoken fans make this plea: "Put Rose into the Hall of Fame, for Pete's sake!"
The 63-Across answer is erroneous, as the "Sudden Impact" actress's name is Audrie Neenan.
The following correction was published:
In [this puzzle], part of an answer was misspelled. The "complicated collaboration" (114A, third line from the bottom) included Richard Rodgers (not Rogers).
The blank squares are intended to mean "White CHRISTMAS."
In order to match its clue, the fourth letter of 8-Down should be an "O" rather than an "A."
The clues are labeled Across and Up.
This constructor could be Gretchen Harris, who had a Simon & Schuster crossword published in the mid-1980s.
Mel Taub, not Eugene T. Maleska, edited this puzzle. It was a last-minute replacement for a Maleska-edited puzzle that had to be scrapped because of an uncorrectable spelling mistake (OTTOWA instead of OTTAWA) where two long theme entries intersected.