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Lee Koch
New York Times, Wednesday, July 18, 1962
31-Down : Very large Philippine tree.
Author:
Lee Koch
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.40, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Lee Koch has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 B | 2 R | 3 I | 4 D | 5 G | 6 E | 7 P | 8 O | 9 K | 10 E | 11 R | ||||
12 R | E | B | O | R | N | 13 T | R | A | I | L | E | 14 D |
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15 D | A | G | O | N | E | T | 16 R | E | S | T | A | G | E |
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17 O | V | I | 18 T | E | R | 19 S | E | S | T | 20 T | A | M |
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21 R | A | M | 22 S | 23 N | E | O | N | S | 24 T | I | T | O |
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25 I | D | E | A | 26 L | 27 A | L | T | 28 H | O | O | T | S |
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29 C | O | N | F | E | 30 T | T | I | 31 D | O | N | N | A | ||
32 F | E | A | S | T | 33 D | A | Y | S | ||||||
34 S | 35 O | R | R | Y | 36 A | E | O | L | I | 37 A | 38 N | 39 S |
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40 P | I | C | O | S | 41 C | I | V | 42 E | L | I | O | T |
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43 A | M | E | N | 44 A | R | R | I | 45 S | 46 S | R | T | A |
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47 M | I | A | 48 G | R | U | E | L | E | 49 R | 50 L | I | T |
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51 P | A | N | 52 E | L | E | D | 53 I | T | A | 54 L | I | C | S |
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55 A | N | I | L | I | N | E | 56 S | T | R | A | F | E | ||
57 S | A | M | B | A | 58 H | E | A | R | T | S |
© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,751
Across
1
Cantilever, for example. : BRIDGE
7
Fireplace item. : POKER
12
Spiritually renewed. : REBORN
13
Followed. : TRAILED
15
King Arthur's fool. : DAGONET
16
Exhibit again. : RESTAGE
17
Egg: Prefix. : OVI
18
Most concise. : TERSEST
20
Headgear. : TAM
21
L. A. eleven. : RAMS
23
Colorful signs. : NEONS
24
Balkan VIP. : TITO
25
Perfect. : IDEAL
27
Old: German. : ALT
28
Shouts from the bleachers. : HOOTS
29
Bits of colored paper. : CONFETTI
31
Italian title. : DONNA
32
Thanksgiving and others. : FEASTDAYS
34
Full of regret. : SORRY
36
Ancient Greeks. : AEOLIANS
40
Peaks: Sp. : PICOS
41
One not in uniform: Abbr. : CIV
42
Nobel prize author. : ELIOT
43
Word of approval. : AMEN
44
Paul Gallico's Mrs. ___. : ARRIS
46
Spanish title: Abbr. : SRTA
47
Italian pronoun. : MIA
48
An exhausting race: Colloq. : GRUELER
50
Ignited. : LIT
51
Kind of ceiling or wall. : PANELED
53
Type style. : ITALICS
55
Chemical dye. : ANILINE
56
Rake with fire at close range. : STRAFE
57
Dance. : SAMBA
58
Flowers' companions. : HEARTS
Down
1
Simulated courage. : BRAVADO
2
System. : REGIMEN
3
Nigerian. : IBO
4
Punch's advice to persons about to marry. : DONT
5
Flourishing. : GREEN
6
Begs. : ENTREATS
7
Journalism. : PRESS
8
Kiln. : OAST
9
Box of equipment. : KIT
10
Feeling induced by success. : ELATION
11
Yachtsman's joy. : REGATTA
13
E. C. Bentley's detective. : TRENT
14
The common people. : DEMOS
15
Style of architecture. : DORIC
19
A kind of ring. : SOLITAIRE
22
Food flavoring. : SAFFRON
24
Throat tissues. : TONSILS
26
Nasty looks. : LEERS
28
According to ___. : HOYLE
30
River of Scotland. : TAY
31
Very large Philippine tree. : DAO
33
Extremely bad: Colloq. : DEVILISH
34
Monkeys. : SIMIANS
35
Polynesia, Australia, etc. : OCEANIA
37
Historic event of 1948-49. : AIRLIFT
38
Remarks. : NOTICES
39
Office copies, for short. : STATS
40
Prairie of Argentina. : PAMPA
41
Unpolished. : CRUDE
44
Sphere of action. : ARENA
45
Seven: It. : SETTE
48
Fluent. : GLIB
49
___ avis. : RARA
52
Tree. : ELM
54
Gibbon. : LAR
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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