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Henry Hook
New York Times, Wednesday, May 4, 1977
11-Down : "Oysters ___ season"
Author:
Henry Hook
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 22.7
Grid has duplicate clues.
Henry Hook has 33 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 25 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
David Steinberg notes:
Grid mistake at 38-Across—should be BRET, not BRETT.
1 D | 2 A | 3 V | 4 I | 5 S | 6 D | 7 A | 8 G | 9 G | 10 E | 11 R | ||||
12 S | 13 P | A | N | I | S | H | 14 A | G | O | U | T | I | ||
15 M | A | R | G | A | R | E | 16 T | T | R | U | M | A | N | |
17 A | N | N | U | L | 18 R | E | E | L | S | |||||
19 L | I | E | S | 20 P | 21 A | I | R | E | D | 22 S | 23 M | 24 U |
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25 L | C | D | 26 D | U | M | P | S | 27 G | O | U | P |
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28 P | A | N | E | L | 29 Y | 30 I | E | L | D | S |
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31 C | 32 A | 33 R | O | L | I | N | E | 34 K | E | N | N | E | D | Y |
35 E | R | O | T | I | C | 36 C | E | A | S | E | ||||
37 L | A | S | S | 38 B | R | E | T | T | 39 B | 40 A | 41 S |
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42 A | M | Y | 43 A | 44 P | R | O | N | S | 45 J | O | L | T |
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46 S | T | R | E | W | 47 B | A | B | A | R |
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48 J | 49 U | L | I | E | A | N | 50 D | 51 T | R | I | C | I | A |
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52 A | N | O | D | E | S | 53 I | R | E | L | A | N | D |
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54 R | E | G | E | N | T | 55 M | I | D | S | T |
© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,126
Across
1
Miles or Sammy, Jr. : DAVIS
6
Weapon in Macbeth's belt : DAGGER
12
Kind of "Eyes" in a song : SPANISH
14
Guinea pig's cousin : AGOUTI
15
White house daughter : MARGARETTRUMAN
17
Void : ANNUL
18
Projectionists' concerns : REELS
19
Fiction of a sort : LIES
20
___ off (went in twos) : PAIRED
22
Dallas campus: Abbr. : SMU
25
Arithmetician's concern: Abbr. : LCD
26
Jettisons : DUMPS
27
Rise : GOUP
28
Group for a jury : PANEL
29
Obeys a road sign : YIELDS
31
White House daughter : CAROLINEKENNEDY
35
Amatory : EROTIC
36
Do no more : CEASE
37
Colleen : LASS
38
Francis ___ Harte : BRETT
39
___ Mitzvah (ceremony for girls) : BAS
42
White House daughter : AMY
43
BBQ-ers' garb : APRONS
45
Shake : JOLT
46
Scatter : STREW
47
Fictional elephant : BABAR
48
White House daughters : JULIEANDTRICIA
52
Positive charges : ANODES
53
Innisfail : IRELAND
54
Ruler, pro tem : REGENT
55
In the ___ of (among) : MIDST
Down
1
"I'll be ___!" : DARNED
2
Cattle breed : ANGUS
3
Test tube : VIAL
4
Kibbutz land: Abbr. : ISR
5
Pronoun for a daughter : SHE
6
Librarians' devices : DATERS
7
Coincide : AGREE
8
Elliot from Brooklyn : GOULD
9
Settings for molars : GUMS
10
Zeta follower : ETA
11
"Oysters ___ season" : RIN
12
Lower-case : SMALL
13
Kind of button : PANIC
16
Secretariat's coup : TRIPLECROWN
20
Carthaginian : PUNIC
21
Prayer word : AMEN
22
Food fish : SOLE
23
TV newsman Roger : MUDD
24
"___ daisy!" : UPSY
26
Painter of limp watches : DALI
27
Tierney or Tunney : GENE
28
Kitchenware : POTS
29
Nobelist for literature: 1923 : YEATS
30
Smithsonian is one: Abbr. : INST
31
That, in Tours : CELA
32
Saroyan hero : ARAM
33
Apple-cheeked : ROSY
34
Acute : KEEN
38
Kind of plate : BREAST
39
Bay lynx : BOBCAT
40
Actor Delon : ALAIN
41
Violin, for short : STRAD
43
" ... ___ in the affairs of men" : ATIDE
44
Dress fastidiously : PREEN
45
Imprisons : JAILS
46
Plod through the mud : SLOG
47
Raised : BRED
48
Clash : JAR
49
Half of deux : UNE
50
Ill-lit : DIM
51
Numerical prefix : TRI
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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