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Anne Fox
New York Times, Wednesday, February 19, 1964
34-Across : Means of identification, in fiction.
Author:
Anne Fox
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { V }, Scrabble score: 349 (avg 1.83)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Grid has duplicate clues.
Anne Fox has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 I | 2 A | 3 M | 4 B | 5 I | 6 P | 7 R | 8 O | 9 X | 10 A | 11 F | 12 I | 13 T |
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14 P | L | A | Y | S | 15 I | O | W | A | 16 D | I | N | O |
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17 S | A | N | J | O | 18 A | Q | U | I | N | 19 E | Z | R | A |
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20 A | I | N | U | 21 P | U | T | 22 A | 23 M | A | Z | E | D |
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24 P | 25 I | L | E | 26 I | D | Y | L | L | ||||||
27 A | 28 N | 29 T | I | C | O | 30 K | N | U | T | 31 E | 32 S | 33 S |
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34 B | I | R | T | H | M | 35 A | R | K | 36 H | 37 A | D | T | O |
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38 A | L | I | E | 39 B | R | A | E | 40 S | 41 C | O | I | L |
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42 C | O | U | R | 43 T | 44 T | A | R | A | 45 N | T | U | L | A |
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46 A | T | M | 47 A | 48 B | E | L | 49 L | U | S | T | E | R |
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50 P | 51 E | T | A | L | 52 T | I | T | O | ||||||
53 A | 54 S | H | M | A | N | 55 B | O | N | 56 F | 57 A | 58 M | 59 E |
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60 P | L | A | P | 61 Q | 62 U | A | K | E | 63 R | G | R | A | Y |
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64 R | U | N | T | 65 U | G | L | Y | 66 M | O | I | R | E |
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67 A | R | T | Y | 68 O | H | I | O | 69 A | D | Z | E | S |
© 1964, The New York TimesNo. 5,316
Across
1
Poetic feet. : IAMBI
6
In the next month: Abbr. : PROX
10
Throw ___. : AFIT
14
Miller's forte. : PLAYS
15
State. : IOWA
16
Terrible: Prefix. : DINO
17
California river. : SANJOAQUIN
19
Book of the Bible. : EZRA
20
Japanese race. : AINU
21
Place. : PUT
22
Surprised. : AMAZED
24
Down. : PILE
26
Pastoral poem. : IDYLL
27
Old, in Italy. : ANTICO
30
Novelist Hamsun. : KNUT
31
Feminine suffix. : ESS
34
Means of identification, in fiction. : BIRTHMARK
36
Was compelled. : HADTO
38
"I cannot tell ___ ... " : ALIE
39
Tummocks. : BRAES
41
Wind. : COIL
42
Woo. : COURT
44
Spider. : TARANTULA
46
Gaseous envelope: Abbr. : ATM
47
Explorer Tasman. : ABEL
49
Brightness. : LUSTER
50
Part of a rose. : PETAL
52
Belgrade name. : TITO
53
Collector of a sort. : ASHMAN
55
___ ton. : BON
56
Kudos. : FAME
60
Fall with a dull sound. : PLAP
61
The color acier. : QUAKERGRAY
64
Little fellow. : RUNT
65
Kind of duckling. : UGLY
66
Watered silk. : MOIRE
67
Bohemian. : ARTY
68
State. : OHIO
69
Tools. : ADZES
Down
1
Herself: Lat. : IPSA
2
Turkish regiment. : ALAI
3
Nobelist in literature, 1929. : MANN
4
Mild oath. : BYJUPITER
5
Equal: Prefix. : ISO
6
Cotton cloth. : PIQUE
7
Stampede. : ROUT
8
Wartime agency. : OWI
9
Kubla Khan's city. : XANADU
10
Make ___. : ADEAL
11
Failed after a good start: Colloq. : FIZZLEDOUT
12
Concerning. : INRE
13
Amphibian. : TOAD
18
Poise. : APLOMB
23
Imaginary person. : MYTH
25
German pronoun. : ICH
26
Printer's pad. : INKER
27
Kind of hemp. : ABACA
28
Egyptian native. : NILOT
29
Victorious. : TRIUMPHANT
30
Hottentot village. : KRAAL
32
Fence steps. : STILE
33
Kind of disk. : SOLAR
35
Russian guild. : ARTEL
37
Unforeseen happenings. : ACTSOFGOD
40
Briny. : SALINE
43
Bye-bye. : TATA
45
Cashew. : NUT
48
Ghost in "Macbeth." : BANQUO
51
Blank. : EMPTY
52
Honshu bay. : TOKYO
53
Port of Guam. : APRA
54
Musical mark. : SLUR
55
Isle near Java. : BALI
57
State: Abbr. : ARIZ
58
Farm animal. : MARE
59
Observes. : EYES
62
Exclamation. : UGH
63
Sandhurst: Abbr. : RMA
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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