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Edward Hubert
New York Times, Monday, January 10, 1955
Author:
Edward Hubert
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15,
Words: 80,
Blocks: 35,
Avg Word Len: 4.75,
Missing: { J Q },
Scrabble score: 299 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 64,
Cheaters: 0,
FITB: 4,
XRef: 0,
Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6,
Grid flow: 21.5
Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
1 B | 2 E | 3 L | 4 G | 5 A | | 6 T | 7 Y | 8 K | 9 E | | 10 A | 11 W | 12 L | 13 S |
14 E | X | I | S | T | | 15 H | A | I | R | | 16 G | H | A | T |
17 S | P | R | A | T | | 18 I | N | D | O | 19 C | H | I | N | A |
20 T | E | R | | 21 Y | 22 O | R | K | | 23 S | E | A | T | E | R |
24 S | L | A | 25 T | | 26 Y | S | E | 27 R | | 28 E | S | E | | |
| | | 29 I | 30 N | S | T | E | A | 31 D | | 32 T | H | 33 O | 34 U |
35 S | 36 E | 37 S | T | E | T | | 38 S | C | I | 39 O | | 40 A | L | S |
41 H | A | N | O | V | E | 42 R | | 43 K | O | B | 44 O | L | D | S |
45 I | S | O | | 46 A | R | A | 47 B | | 48 N | O | B | L | E | S |
49 N | E | W | 50 S | | 51 S | P | I | 52 N | N | E | R | | | |
| | 53 S | P | 54 A | | 55 T | R | E | E | | 56 A | 57 D | 58 Z | 59 E |
60 F | 61 A | T | I | M | 62 A | | 63 E | R | S | 64 T | | 65 R | E | D |
66 E | X | O | N | E | R | 67 A | T | E | | 68 A | 69 L | O | N | G |
70 T | I | R | E | | 71 A | S | T | I | | 72 W | A | N | D | A |
73 E | L | M | S | | 74 L | E | A | D | | 75 S | W | E | A | R |
© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,022
Across
1
Money in Brussels. :
BELGA6
Small child: Colloq. :
TYKE10
Shoemakers' tools. :
AWLS14
15
Extremely small space. :
HAIR16
Mountain pass, in India. :
GHAT17
Nursery rhyme character. :
SPRAT18
20
What Alaska is: Abbr. :
TER21
Historic city in Pennsylvania. :
YORK23
24
Unit of a Venetian blind. :
SLAT26
28
29
32
35
38
40
41
43
Gnomes, in German folklore. :
KOBOLDS45
46
48
49
Reports of events. :
NEWS51
53
55
56
60
Site of a miracle in Portugal. :
FATIMA63
65
66
68
70
71
72
Harpsichordist Landowska. :
WANDA73
New England specialties. :
ELMS74
75
Have faith in (with "by"). :
SWEAR
Down
1
2
Deprive of membership. :
EXPEL3
"That lark that tirra-___ chants ... " :
LIRRA4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
19
22
25
Dictator on the Adriatic. :
TITO27
Triangle for billiard balls. :
RACK30
River into Gulf of Finland. :
NEVA31
33
Ye ___ Gifte Shoppe. :
OLDE34
Nautical initials. :
USSS35
36
37
39
Cousin to the bassoon. :
OBOE42
44
47
50
52
54
57
58
"Prisoner of ___." :
ZENDA59
One of the Hoovers. :
EDGAR60
61
Angle of twig and stem. :
AXIL62
Asian body of water. :
ARAL64
67
Peer Gynt's mother. :
ASE69
Dewey's occupation. :
LAW
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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