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Leonard Goldberg
New York Times, Saturday, January 27, 1951
37-Across : Aimlessly; without purpose.
Author:
Leonard Goldberg
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 308 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 6, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 16, Grid flow: 106.8
Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Leonard Goldberg has 21 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 C | 2 R | 3 U | 4 M | 5 P | 6 J | 7 E | 8 T | 9 S | 10 D | 11 I | 12 L | 13 L |
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14 H | O | N | E | S | 15 I | V | E | S | 16 U | N | I | E |
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17 L | U | D | W | I | 18 G | B | E | M | E | 19 L | M | A | N | S |
20 O | S | E | S | 21 H | E | R | A | 22 C | A | P | T | S |
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23 E | E | R | 24 M | A | R | L | 25 W | I | S | P | ||||
26 P | 27 R | E | T | 28 A | 29 C | H | S | 30 E | 31 G | 32 G |
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33 K | 34 O | R | E | A | 35 A | S | H | Y | 36 B | L | E | U |
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37 U | N | I | N | T | 38 E | N | T | I | O | 39 N | A | L | L | Y |
40 R | E | V | E | 41 K | N | I | T | 42 C | R | A | S | S |
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43 T | R | I | 44 K | E | E | N | 45 C | O | B | B | ||||
46 L | 47 E | A | D | 48 G | 49 O | A | S | 50 I | 51 M | 52 A |
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53 A | 54 G | E | N | T | 55 T | N | T | S | 56 S | L | U | G |
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57 D | A | G | U | E | 58 R | R | E | O | T | 59 Y | P | I | N | G |
60 A | V | E | R | 61 O | I | S | E | 62 A | U | T | R | E |
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63 M | E | D | E | 64 B | O | S | S | 65 P | R | Y | O | R |
© 1951, The New York TimesNo. 587
Across
1
Onetime boss of Memphis. : CRUMP
6
F-86's. : JETS
10
Sir John ___, former British Field Marshal. : DILL
14
Sharpens. : HONES
15
Senator from the Empire State. : IVES
16
United: French. : UNIE
17
He wrote "Hotel Splendide." : LUDWIGBEMELMANS
20
Chemical suffixes. : OSES
21
Wife of Zeus. : HERA
22
Army officers: Abbr. : CAPTS
23
Ever: Contr. : EER
24
A soft, earthy deposit. : MARL
25
Handful of straw. : WISP
26
Ready: French. : PRET
28
German exclamations. : ACHS
30
Subject of Betty MacDonald's first book. : EGG
33
Where the Han River flows. : KOREA
35
Very pale. : ASHY
36
A color: French. : BLEU
37
Aimlessly; without purpose. : UNINTENTIONALLY
40
Dream: French. : REVE
41
Grow together. : KNIT
42
Crude, vulgar. : CRASS
43
Three: Prefix. : TRI
44
Mentally acute. : KEEN
45
Director of Selective Service for New York City. : COBB
46
Conduct. : LEAD
48
Tibetan gazelles. : GOAS
50
Girl's name. : IMA
53
F. B. I. man. : AGENT
55
Lethal explosive charges : TNTS
56
Strike heavily with fist or bat. : SLUG
57
Reproducing photos by a former method, on a silver plate. : DAGUERREOTYPING
60
State as a fact. : AVER
61
French river. : OISE
62
Other: French. : AUTRE
63
Ancient Persian. : MEDE
64
Mr. Tweed, for instance. : BOSS
65
City in Oklahoma. : PRYOR
Down
1
Heroine of a sentimental song. : CHLOE
2
Awaken. : ROUSE
3
Characteristic of slum children. : UNDERPRIVILEGED
4
Set of stables about a court. : MEWS
5
Greek letter. : PSI
6
Scoffer. : JIBER
7
Endlessness. : EVERLASTINGNESS
8
A musical theme. : TEMA
9
Reading on a compass. : SSE
10
Author of "Camille." : DUMAS
11
State of lacking the right of appeal. : INAPPELLABILITY
12
Fluff. : LINT
13
Minus. : LESS
18
Where the Hindus cremate their dead. : GHAT
19
Landing boats for foot soldiers. : LCIS
24
Major item in everyone's budget. : MEAT
25
Signal cry of a former N. Y. C. gang. : WHYO
27
M. Pleven, of France. : RENE
29
Voucher of money owed for food, drink, etc. : CHIT
31
Gelatinous substances. : GELS
32
"___ and Dolls." : GUYS
33
Man's name. : KURT
34
An unusual person: Colloq. : ONER
35
Prince Charlie's sister. : ANNE
36
Part of a fishhook. : BARB
38
Pieced out. : EKED
39
Sergeants, corporals, etc.: Abbr. : NCOS
44
Miss Smith. : KATE
45
Allot parts to actors. : CAST
47
Harden; habituate. : ENURE
49
Sioux Indians. : OTOES
51
Writer whose pen name was "Saki." : MUNRO
52
Earthwork or mound of ancient Rome. : AGGER
53
Mr. Smith, who wrote "Wealth of Nations." : ADAM
54
Donated. : GAVE
55
The Andrews Sisters. : TRIO
56
Short branch railroad track. : SPUR
58
Plunder. : ROB
59
One of the Caroline Islands. : YAP
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 13 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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