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Joseph LaFauci
New York Times, Tuesday, September 1, 1953
37-Down : Man: Italian.
Author:
Joseph LaFauci
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J K Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 22.9
Joseph LaFauci has 70 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 H | 3 A | 4 D | 5 D | 6 O | 7 R | 8 A | 9 C | 10 I | 11 V | 12 E | 13 T |
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14 H | A | T | E | 15 O | R | A | L | 16 A | D | E | L | E |
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17 A | L | A | B | 18 A | M | A | N | S | 19 M | I | L | L | S |
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20 G | O | V | 21 M | I | N | G | 22 A | B | O | D | E | S |
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23 I | 24 R | O | N | 25 E | 26 B | R | O | 27 E | S | A |
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28 A | 29 S | S | U | R | E | 30 R | O | A | D | |||||
31 G | E | T | S | 32 E | 33 A | S | T | 34 I | 35 S | 36 S | 37 U | 38 E |
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39 R | A | I | S | 40 E | R | S | 41 T | 42 R | A | C | T | O | R |
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43 A | N | C | O | N | 44 C | 45 A | S | A | 46 R | A | M | A |
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47 L | 48 A | O | S | 49 P | 50 H | O | T | O | S |
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51 A | 52 M | 53 S | 54 A | G | T | S | 55 H | A | D | E | ||||
56 S | A | T | 57 I | R | E | 58 O | 59 M | A | R | 60 M | 61 A | 62 U |
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63 C | H | A | N | G | 64 F | R | E | E | P | 65 R | E | S | S |
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66 A | D | I | G | E | 67 E | T | A | L | 68 A | N | T | S |
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69 P | I | N | E | D | 70 E | S | T | S | 71 S | T | I | R |
© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,535
Across
1
Herringlike fish. : SHAD
5
Mr Spenlow's daughter. : DORA
9
Catlike animal of China. : CIVET
14
Something disliked. : HATE
15
Type of exam. : ORAL
16
Role in "Die Fledermaus." : ADELE
17
There are 3,061,743 of them. : ALABAMANS
19
Where products are turned out in great quantities. : MILLS
20
Cherry or Battle: Abbr. : GOV
21
Chinese dynasty, 1368–1644. : MING
22
Domiciles. : ABODES
23
Golf club. : IRON
25
River across northeast Spain. : EBRO
27
Wage-price freeze agency. : ESA
28
Promise. : ASSURE
30
What an autobahn is. : ROAD
31
Goes and brings. : GETS
32
Down ___. : EAST
34
Question to be decided. : ISSUE
39
Optimistic poker players. : RAISERS
41
Farmer's "must." : TRACTOR
43
Suburb of Panama. : ANCON
44
House, in Rome. : CASA
46
An incarnation of Vishnu. : RAMA
47
Part of Indo-China. : LAOS
49
Snaps. : PHOTOS
51
Ack Emmas. : AMS
54
Stars have them: Abbr. : AGTS
55
Geological angle. : HADE
56
Marquand's forte. : SATIRE
58
Gen. Bradley. : OMAR
60
Fearsome syllable in Kenya. : MAU
63
Chinese measure. : CHANG
64
Appropriate name for a newspaper. : FREEPRESS
66
River into the Gulf of Venice. : ADIGE
67
Kin of etc. : ETAL
68
They live in organized communities. : ANTS
69
Yearned (with "after"). : PINED
70
Superlative suffixes. : ESTS
71
Recipe direction. : STIR
Down
1
Cloth with rough nap. : SHAG
2
Symbol of innocence. : HALO
3
Resembling remote ancestors. : ATAVISTIC
4
Social bud. : DEB
5
Tyrannize. : DOMINEER
6
African port. : ORAN
7
Texas, forest, etc. : RANGERS
8
Than: German. : ALS
9
Part of Indo-China, to be granted independence by France, 1954. : CAMBODIA
10
One's own: Comb. form. : IDIO
11
Congressman from Illinois, Un-American Activities questioner. : VELDE
12
French pronoun. : ELLES
13
Girl's nickname. : TESSA
18
Winged child, in art. : AMOR
22
Southern constellation. : ARA
24
___-Japanese war. : RUSSO
26
Upson's tractor salesman and epistolarian. : BOTTS
28
Province or city of India. : AGRA
29
President O'Kelly. : SEAN
33
Scarf. : ASCOT
35
Young codfish ready for cooking. : SCROD
36
Declaration. : STATEMENT
37
Man: Italian. : UOMO
38
Historic periods. : ERAS
40
Broadened. : ENLARGED
42
"Saint Cecilia," and "Sistine Madonna." : RAPHAELS
45
Divides into groups. : ASSORTS
48
Time of life. : AGE
50
Instrument with 46 strings. : HARP
51
Group of composers, authors, publishers. : ASCAP
52
Mohammedan title "Leader of the Faithful." : MAHDI
53
Pigment. : STAIN
57
Pulitzer Prize playwright. : INGE
59
Solid food. : MEAT
61
City of northern Italy. : ASTI
62
Hammer and sickle land. : USSR
64
Charge. : FEE
65
Short-napped fabric. : RAS
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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