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Mary M. Murdoch
New York Times, Monday, May 22, 1967
40-Across : Small wood.
Author:
Mary Murdoch
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 28.6
Grid has duplicate clues.
Mary M. Murdoch has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Mary Murdoch is an alias for Mary M. Murdoch.
1 F | 2 A | 3 I | 4 T | 5 H | 6 G | 7 R | 8 I | 9 T | 10 S | 11 L | 12 A | 13 B |
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14 O | C | R | E | A | 15 L | O | C | H | 16 P | A | C | E |
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17 G | R | E | E | N | 18 H | O | U | S | E | 19 I | C | E | D |
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20 Y | E | S | 21 G | I | V | E | 22 W | 23 A | D | E | R | S |
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24 V | I | S | E | 25 W | A | N | E | |||||||
26 G | 27 L | I | N | T | 28 W | I | L | D | R | 29 O | 30 S | 31 E |
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32 A | L | O | N | G | 33 F | I | L | L | 34 W | R | I | T |
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35 L | O | G | E | 36 F | A | L | L | S | 37 O | N | E | R |
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38 I | B | I | D | 39 O | R | L | Y | 40 G | R | O | V | E |
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41 T | E | A | R | 42 O | O | M | S | 43 M | A | T | T | E | ||
44 E | L | L | S | 45 P | E | R | S | |||||||
46 L | 47 E | 48 N | S | E | S | 49 K | I | N | D | 50 P | 51 S | 52 A |
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53 I | R | I | S | 54 C | 55 I | N | Q | U | E | 56 F | O | I | L |
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57 L | I | N | E | 58 A | S | O | U | 59 N | A | S | A | L |
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60 Y | E | A | R | 61 P | A | T | E | 62 S | T | E | M | S |
© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,491
Across
1
One of "these three." : FAITH
6
Pluck. : GRIT
10
Piece of wood. : SLAB
14
Flower part. : OCREA
15
Lomond, for one. : LOCH
16
Stride. : PACE
17
Nursery of a kind. : GREENHOUSE
19
Frosted. : ICED
20
It is so. : YES
21
Impart. : GIVE
22
Shore birds. : WADERS
24
Workbench device. : VISE
25
Grow faint. : WANE
26
Gleam. : GLINT
28
Flower. : WILDROSE
32
In company with. : ALONG
33
Occupy. : FILL
34
Holy ___. : WRIT
35
Theater box. : LOGE
36
Seasons. : FALLS
37
Something unusual: Brit. : ONER
38
Footnote term. : IBID
39
Airfield near Paris. : ORLY
40
Small wood. : GROVE
41
Luncheon places. : TEAROOMS
43
Dull finish. : MATTE
44
Pipe joints. : ELLS
45
Kind of pronoun: Abbr. : PERS
46
Eye parts. : LENSES
49
Sympathetic. : KIND
50
Book of the Bible: Abbr. : PSA
53
Flag. : IRIS
54
Flower. : CINQUEFOIL
57
Row. : LINE
58
Without ___ (penniless). : ASOU
59
Type of voice. : NASAL
60
Four seasons. : YEAR
61
Top of the head. : PATE
62
Flower parts. : STEMS
Down
1
Conservative one. : FOGY
2
Israeli seaport. : ACRE
3
Angers. : IRES
4
Links place. : TEE
5
See 40 Down. : HANGING
6
Fox ___. : GLOVE
7
Rake. : ROUE
8
Suffix in sciences. : ICS
9
"___ of Jericho." : THEWALLS
10
Flowers. : SPIDERWORTS
11
Queen Anne's ___. : LACE
12
Maple genus. : ACER
13
Garden spots. : BEDS
18
Listen! : HIST
23
As well as. : AND
24
Grape cultivator. : VINEDRESSER
25
Arthur Miller hero. : WILLY
26
Famous theater. : GLOBE
27
Religious maxims. : LOGIA
28
Durant and Rogers. : WILLS
29
"To be ___ to be ... " : ORNOT
30
Kitchen utensil. : SIEVE
31
Raison d'___. : ETRE
32
Landed. : ALIT
33
Cultivates. : FARMS
36
Type of paper. : FOOLSCAP
40
With 5 Down, one of the Seven Wonders. : GARDENS
42
Arena sound. : OLE
43
Cook's concern. : MENU
45
Cotton fabric. : PIQUE
46
Flower. : LILY
47
Indian. : ERIE
48
Historic caravel. : NINA
49
Clove hitch. : KNOT
50
Put forth. : POSE
51
Asian gulf. : SIAM
52
___ well. : ALLS
55
O. T. Book: Abbr. : ISA
56
Plump. : FAT
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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