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P. Joseph Lamanna
A Visit to Washington
New York Times, Sunday, March 16, 1947
104-Down : Norwegian explorer (1861–1930).
Author:
P. J. Lamanna
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 144, Blocks: 65, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 558 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 134, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 46, Grid flow: 34.5
P. J. Lamanna is an alias for P. Joseph Lamanna.
1 A | 2 P | 3 P | 4 R | 5 I | 6 S | 7 E | | 8 M | 9 I | 10 S | 11 T | 12 S | | 13 F | 14 L | 15 E | 16 M | 17 I | 18 N | 19 G |
20 C | R | E | E | D | O | N | | 21 C | L | A | R | E | | 22 E | U | R | A | S | I | A |
23 T | I | P | P | E | T | S | | 24 N | O | Y | E | S | | 25 E | C | O | L | O | G | Y |
26 I | M | P | | 27 M | O | O | 28 S | E | | 29 R | E | S | 30 E | D | A | S | | 31 P | E | N |
32 V | E | E | 33 R | | 34 L | U | P | I | 35 N | E | | 36 I | R | E | S | | 37 B | O | R | E |
38 E | R | R | O | 39 R | | 40 L | O | L | A | | 41 A | L | A | R | | 42 C | A | D | I | S |
| | | 43 L | E | 44 A | S | T | | 45 Z | 46 O | N | E | S | | 47 B | U | R | S | A | S |
48 B | 49 U | 50 T | L | E | R | | | 51 P | A | R | T | | 52 E | 53 D | E | R | | | | |
54 U | S | A | | 55 S | A | 56 M | 57 A | R | I | T | A | 58 N | | 59 E | A | R | 60 R | 61 I | 62 N | 63 G |
64 R | A | Y | 65 S | | 66 R | O | G | E | R | S | | 67 A | 68 B | S | T | A | I | N | E | R |
69 I | N | L | A | 70 Y | | 71 D | U | N | E | | 72 S | W | A | P | | 73 N | I | T | R | O |
74 E | C | O | N | O | 75 M | I | E | S | | 76 H | A | A | K | O | 77 N | | 78 S | A | V | O |
79 R | E | R | E | D | O | S | | 80 A | 81 C | E | R | B | A | T | E | 82 D | | 83 K | E | M |
| | | | 84 E | P | H | 85 A | | 86 H | A | G | S | | | 87 B | I | 88 P | E | D | S |
89 H | 90 A | 91 Z | 92 E | L | S | | 93 C | 94 R | A | T | E | | 95 A | 96 D | O | R | E | | | |
97 A | D | A | M | S | | 98 W | R | A | P | | 99 N | 100 A | M | E | | 101 E | A | 102 T | 103 O | 104 N |
105 M | A | R | S | | 106 C | H | I | N | | 107 A | T | T | I | L | 108 A | | 109 S | A | R | A |
110 U | M | U | | 111 B | R | I | D | G | 112 E | S | | 113 O | N | E | G | 114 A | | 115 B | A | N |
116 L | I | B | 117 E | R | A | L | | 118 E | C | T | 119 O | N | | 120 T | E | L | 121 S | O | N | S |
122 U | T | I | L | I | Z | E | | 123 R | H | I | N | E | | 124 E | N | G | O | R | G | E |
125 S | E | N | A | T | E | S | | 126 S | O | R | E | S | | 127 S | T | A | S | S | E | N |
© 1947, The New York TimesNo. 266
Across
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8
13
Head of Office of Temporary Controls. :
FLEMING20
National Housing Expediter. :
CREEDON21
Rep. ___ Hoffman of Michigan. :
CLARE22
23
24
The Barrel-Organ man. :
NOYES25
Mutual relations between organisms and their environment. :
ECOLOGY26
27
The M in L. O. O. M. :
MOOSE29
31
32
34
36
37
38
40
41
42
Mohammedan magistrates. :
CADIS43
45
Germany has four. :
ZONES47
48
Chairman, Senate Committee on Public Lands. :
BUTLER51
52
54
Novel by John Dos Passos. :
USA55
59
64
66
Chairman, House Veterans Affairs Committee. :
ROGERS67
69
Set into body of a surface. :
INLAY71
72
73
Guncotton: Colloq. :
NITRO74
76
78
Puckish comedian of Broadway. :
SAVO79
80
83
84
Hebrew measure, about a bushel. :
EPHA86
87
What men and birds are. :
BIPEDS89
93
95
97
Our second President. :
ADAMS98
99
101
105
106
107
King of the Huns (406?–453). :
ATTILA109
110
Polynesian baking pit. :
UMU111
Chairman, Senate appropriations Committee. :
BRIDGES113
Lake in NW Russia. :
ONEGA115
116
Minor British political party. :
LIBERAL118
120
122
123
Moscow parley topic. :
RHINE124
125
126
127
Down
1
2
3
4
5
6
Plant of southwest U. S. :
SOTOL7
Imbues with spiritual force. :
ENSOULS8
British Minister of State. :
MCNEIL9
10
U. S. delegate to U. N. Trusteeship Council. :
SAYRE11
12
Attached directly by the base. :
SESSILE13
14
Senate Minority whip. :
LUCAS15
16
17
18
19
28
30
33
35
Saint ___, French seaport. :
NAZAIRE37
39
Chairman, House P. O. and Civil Service Committee. :
REES41
Kind of pier, in architecture. :
ANTA42
President of National Maritime Union. :
CURRAN44
46
47
48
49
Time allowed for payment of note. :
USANCE50
51
La ___, important Argentine newspaper. :
PRENSA53
56
57
58
Rich, retired Anglo-Indians. :
NAWABS60
Danish-American journalist (1849–1914). :
RIIS61
62
63
65
68
___ bomb, used by Japs. :
BAKA70
72
Painter of Mme. X (1856–1925). :
SARGENT75
76
77
Mountain from which Moses saw Canaan. :
NEBO81
82
85
88
Mendel experimented with these. :
PEAS89
90
91
Russian Ambassador to Britain. :
ZARUBIN92
94
95
Chemical compound. :
AMIN96
98
100
102
103
Traditional gift in most Christmas stockings. :
ORANGE104
Norwegian explorer (1861–1930). :
NANSEN106
107
108
111
112
She loved Narcissus. :
ECHO114
Plant of group including kelp. :
ALGA117
Guido's highest note. :
ELA119
121
Signal made official in 1912. :
SOS
Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 41 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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