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Leonard Goldberg
Brain Teasers
New York Times, Sunday, July 23, 1950
19-Down : ___ Wage.
Author:
Leonard Goldberg
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 164, Blocks: 70, Avg Word Len: 5.60, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 670 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 183, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 37, Grid flow: 30.7
1 M | 2 C | 3 M | 4 A | 5 H | 6 O | 7 N | | 8 W | 9 E | 10 A | 11 T | 12 H | 13 E | 14 R | | 15 S | 16 C | 17 H | 18 U | 19 M | 20 A | 21 N |
22 C | L | I | M | A | T | E | | 23 A | L | T | O | O | N | A | | 24 E | L | U | S | I | V | E |
25 G | A | S | T | R | O | P | 26 U | L | M | O | N | A | R | Y | | 27 C | A | B | A | N | A | S |
28 R | U | L | E | D | | 29 A | L | L | | 30 M | I | X | O | | 31 H | U | N | S | | 32 I | R | T |
33 A | D | A | R | | 34 A | L | C | O | 35 R | | 36 C | E | L | 37 L | A | R | S | | 38 A | M | I | L |
39 T | I | N | | 40 D | N | I | E | P | E | 41 R | | 42 S | L | A | V | E | | 43 S | A | U | C | E |
44 H | A | D | 45 N | O | T | | 46 R | E | B | E | 47 C | | 48 S | P | A | | 49 H | O | L | M | E | S |
| | | 50 I | O | W | 51 A | | 52 R | A | D | A | 53 S | | 54 S | N | 55 E | E | R | S | | | |
56 D | 57 E | 58 P | O | N | E | R | 59 S | | 60 R | E | P | E | 61 N | | 62 A | G | A | R | | 63 S | 64 I | 65 D |
66 E | R | A | | 67 E | R | I | C | 68 S | | 69 C | I | M | O | 70 N | | 71 G | L | O | 72 B | A | T | E |
73 F | O | I | 74 L | | 75 P | E | R | I | 76 D | O | T | I | T | E | 77 S | | 78 S | W | I | V | E | L |
79 E | T | N | A | 80 S | | 81 L | I | T | E | R | A | T | U | R | E | 82 S | | 83 S | N | A | R | E |
84 N | E | T | T | E | 85 D | | 86 M | E | G | A | L | O | M | A | N | I | 87 A | | 88 D | R | A | T |
89 S | M | E | A | R | E | 90 D | | 91 S | A | T | I | N | | 92 C | O | R | P | 93 S | | 94 A | T | E |
95 E | E | R | | 96 E | V | E | 97 S | | 98 S | E | S | I | 99 A | | 100 R | E | P | A | 101 S | S | E | D |
| | | 102 S | N | O | O | T | 103 Y | | 104 S | T | C | Y | 105 R | | 106 S | O | F | A | | | |
107 D | 108 A | 109 M | P | E | N | | 110 R | U | 111 G | | 112 S | A | M | E | 113 L | | 114 S | A | C | 115 H | 116 E | 117 T |
118 O | S | I | E | R | | 119 F | I | L | E | 120 S | | 121 L | E | V | E | 122 L | E | R | | 123 E | M | U |
124 D | I | N | E | | 125 D | I | V | E | R | T | 126 S | | 127 R | I | V | A | S | | 128 A | L | A | R |
129 G | A | T | | 130 M | I | N | E | | 131 M | I | L | 132 L | | 133 S | I | N | | 134 S | T | I | N | T |
135 E | T | A | 136 G | E | R | E | | 137 K | A | L | E | I | 138 D | O | S | C | 139 O | P | I | C | A | L |
140 R | I | G | I | D | E | R | | 141 E | N | T | E | R | E | R | | 142 E | M | U | L | A | T | E |
143 S | C | E | N | E | R | Y | | 144 M | Y | S | T | E | R | Y | | 145 D | A | R | T | L | E | S |
© 1950, The New York TimesNo. 441
Across
1
Chairman of Committee on Atomic Energy. :
MCMAHON8
New York is trying to make its own. :
WEATHER15
Leader of international coal-steel plan. :
SCHUMAN22
Famous California product. :
CLIMATE23
City noted for manufacturing of locomotives. :
ALTOONA24
25
27
28
29
30
Mixed: Comb. form. :
MIXO31
32
Part of N. Y. C.'s "Underground." :
IRT33
34
Star in Ursa Major. :
ALCOR36
38
39
Product of Cornwall. :
TIN40
42
43
44
46
48
49
"Yankee From Olympus." :
HOLMES50
Hickenlooper's state. :
IOWA52
Ukrainian legislative bodies. :
RADAS54
56
60
62
Historian, Pulitzer Prize winner, 1934. :
AGAR63
66
67
Compensations for injuries: Irish law. :
ERICS69
Athenian commander (510–449 B. C.). :
CIMON71
73
75
78
Pivoted support for turning. :
SWIVEL79
81
83
84
86
88
89
Besmirched one's character. :
SMEARED91
92
94
95
96
Times just preceding. :
EVES98
100
102
104
France's "West Point." :
STCYR106
107
110
112
Of a brick, not fully burnt. :
SAMEL114
118
119
What McCarthy failed to get. :
FILES121
Remover of social inequalities. :
LEVELER123
Second largest bird. :
EMU124
125
127
Clefts in rock: Scot. :
RIVAS128
129
130
131
Famous British economist. :
MILL133
134
135
Series of shelves for bric-a-brac. :
ETAGERE137
140
141
142
143
144
145
Down
1
He holds Tom Clark's former job. :
MCGRATH2
3
Come to earth improperly. :
MISLAND4
Counties in Denmark. :
AMTER5
6
7
Language spoken in Katmandu. :
NEPALI8
DiMaggio, Musial, or Williams. :
WALLOPER9
10
Article of world-shaking dimensions. :
ATOM11
12
13
14
Star of "Where's Charley?" :
RAY15
16
Family divisions. :
CLANS17
18
19
20
21
26
The worrier's ailment. :
ULCER31
Dr. Socarras' capital. :
HAVANA34
35
37
38
Indian mulberries. :
AALS40
41
43
"When ___ come, they come not single spies, But in battalions."—Hamlet. :
SORROWS45
47
49
51
Prospero's helper. :
ARIEL53
55
56
Secy. Johnson's department. :
DEFENSE57
58
59
61
63
64
65
68
70
City in S. W. France. :
NERAC72
Cover the edge of. :
BIND74
76
Painter of ballet dancers. :
DEGAS77
80
82
85
Where Dartmoor is. :
DEVON87
90
93
Mohammedan month. :
SAFAR97
99
Jovial prior in "Ivanhoe." :
AYMER101
102
German admiral of World War I. :
SPEE103
105
107
Flatbush's "Pride and Joy." :
DODGERS108
109
Important function of Treasury Department. :
MINTAGE111
113
115
116
117
119
120
122
125
126
128
130
132
134
136
137
Senator from Missouri. :
KEM138
139
Lee ___, heavyweight contender. :
OMA
Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 27 debuted here and reused later, 13 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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